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Navarasa

  • 20052005
  • 1h 39m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
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Navarasa (2005)
  • Drama
Swetha, 13, discovers that her uncle Gautham dresses as a woman once night has fallen. Intrigued, she asks him about him, and he confesses her that his dream would be to escape to Koovagam, ... Read allSwetha, 13, discovers that her uncle Gautham dresses as a woman once night has fallen. Intrigued, she asks him about him, and he confesses her that his dream would be to escape to Koovagam, a little city in the South of India, where transvestites gather to perpetuate the myth of ... Read allSwetha, 13, discovers that her uncle Gautham dresses as a woman once night has fallen. Intrigued, she asks him about him, and he confesses her that his dream would be to escape to Koovagam, a little city in the South of India, where transvestites gather to perpetuate the myth of Aravan. Once he disappears, Swetha goes after him, without warning her parents...
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  • Director
    • Santosh Sivan
  • Writer
    • Santosh Sivan
  • Stars
    • Shweta
    • Apeksha Bhat
    • Bobby Darling
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  • Director
    • Santosh Sivan
  • Writer
    • Santosh Sivan
  • Stars
    • Shweta
    • Apeksha Bhat
    • Bobby Darling
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    • Awards
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    Apeksha Bhat
    Bobby Darling
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    Ghanteshwar T. Guru
    • Villager # 2
    Kushboo
    Kushboo
    Rashaana Shah
    Rashaana Shah
    • Documentary filmmaker
    Ejji K. Umamahesh
    Vishnuvardhan
    Vishnuvardhan
    • Villager # 1
    • (as Vishnu Vardhan)
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      • Santosh Sivan
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    8/10
    movie about the third gender.
    Cinematographers-turned-directors always have a special delicate, indrawn way of looking at life - and this isn't the first time Santosh Sivan looks at a fringe community. Sivan plays with the concepts of light and dark, shadow and sunlight to depict the ambiguities that underline human sexuality. Swetha's shock and incredulity at the idea of her beloved uncle being a woman in a man's body is a clever device to distance and familiarize the audience with the third sex. Often, the director's camera tends to flirt with exotica, but not at the cost of the plot. There are long passages of soulful visuals, for example the eunuchs huddled in a dreamy blur at the fair dressed in widows' whites after marrying the deity Aravan...here the cinematographer in Sivan coalesces with a gentle jolt in the director. on the whole, this movie is a worth watching....
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    • Release date
      • October 21, 2005 (India)
    • Country of origin
      • India
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      • Official site
    • Languages
      • English
      • Tamil
      • Hindi
    • Also known as
      • Navarasa. Trzecia plec
    • Production company
      • Handmade Productions
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      1 hour 39 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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