Having long played female roles in traveling theater productions, Chapal Bhaduri struggled to find work after more women started performing in the 1960s and 1970s.

Having long played female roles in traveling theater productions, Chapal Bhaduri struggled to find work after more women started performing in the 1960s and 1970s.

Now retired and in his mid-80s, Bhaduri was considered the last female impersonator of “jatra,” a traveling musical theater tradition in Bengali-speaking parts of northeast India and Bangladesh.

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Having long played female roles in traveling theater productions, Chapal Bhaduri struggled to find work after more women started performing in the 1960s and 1970s.

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By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — For Indian actor Chapal Bhaduri, the last man known to play female roles in Bengali folk theater, getting into character was both practical and ritualistic. He ...