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Common Gender (2012)

Common Gender poster
Directed by
Noman Robin
Genre
comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film
Country
Bangladesh
Runtime
2h 11m
Rating
4.0 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This film follows the lives of transgender people in Bangladesh. It centers on two transgender characters navigating their identities and relationships in a society that often marginalizes them.

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What happens

Common Gender is a 2012 Bangladeshi film starring Dolly Zahur and Chitralekha Guha. It is the first Bangladeshi film to portray the lives of Hijra or transgender people. It is one of the first films in world cinema to have two transgender people as lead characters. It was subsequently released in the United States. Chitralekha Guho plays a pivotal character. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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