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BAHURUPIYA

CREDITS

 

Writer/Director: Sidharth Srinivasan

Producer(s): Rajiv Mehrotra, Sidharth Srinivasan (uncredited)

DOP: Srishti Lakhera

Editor: Shikha Gupta

BAHURUPIYA

(AKA Wearer of Faces/2015/Documentary)

 

Production Company(s):
PSBT, Reel Illusion Films (uncredited)

Release: Doordarshan, EBS Korea

Festivals: Open Frame, IDSFFK, MIFF, ViBGYOR, 

SiGNS, EBS, Stuttgart etc.

"Bahurupiya is an exploration of identity, as told by two folk performers whose fading, hereditary profession involves wearing many faces in order to eke out a living. Kishan Bahurupiya is a lower-caste Punjabi Hindu who literally transforms into a monkey, while Abdul Hamid is a Muslim Bhand from Rajasthan who inhabits the role of the Hindu demon king Ravana so completely that it has become second nature to him. But despite hailing from very diverse castes, religions, regions and communities, these two Bahurupiyas express the life of an entertainer in common"

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