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Rituparno ‘gay' again

Kolkata: Never given to stereotypes whether as a director or an actor, Rituparno Ghosh, who played a cross-dressing homosexual in Just Another Love Story is taking up the challenge again.

In Memories in March, which will release in theatres tomorrow, Rituparno again plays a homosexual like in his first venture where he was a cross-dresser.

“He is not effeminate in the film. He is gay, but just like all other men in the world. We wanted to break that stereotype…. Here is a realistic portrayal,” the film's director, Sanjoy Nag, told PTI.

Released last December, Arekti Premer Golpo ( Just Another Love Story) had Rituparno playing a cross-dresser gay film-maker who regards himself as someone from the third gender.

Nag, however, insists that the two films are very different from each other.

“It is very different in terms of the way the character has been portrayed and dealt with. Here's is a much focused, nuanced, subtle and intelligent acting from Rituparno,” the debutant director said.

He also brushed aside suggestions that it is a gay film. “Gay is not the primary issue here. The film is about a mother's journey after her son's death. It is about how she finds that the line between who is an outsider to the family and an insider gets blurred,” Nag said.

The film reflects on the bond between a gay protagonist and his dead boyfriend's mother. - PTI

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