As the glitz-and-glam of TIFF wrapped up in Toronto over the weekend, a special film titled “I Am Sirat” made its international debut.
“I Am Sirat”, which stars Sirat Taneja and c0-directed by Deepa Mehta, follows a transgender woman in New Delhi, India, who must act as her mother’s son at home but lives her true self around her friends and colleagues.
Taneja and Mehta caught up with Et Canada’s Sangita Patel, discussing the importance of international LGBTQ+ representation on the silver screen.
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“I don’t feel it’s mine. It’s her narrative. It’s through her lens. It’s her journey as a trans woman in India,” says Mehta of the story, which was completely shot on smartphones.
“My mother knows about my sexuality but she doesn’t accept it.
“I Am Sirat”, which stars Sirat Taneja and c0-directed by Deepa Mehta, follows a transgender woman in New Delhi, India, who must act as her mother’s son at home but lives her true self around her friends and colleagues.
Taneja and Mehta caught up with Et Canada’s Sangita Patel, discussing the importance of international LGBTQ+ representation on the silver screen.
Read More: Sylvester Stallone Says He’s ‘The Last Of The Dinosaurs’ At TIFF Premiere Of Documentary ‘Sly’
“I don’t feel it’s mine. It’s her narrative. It’s through her lens. It’s her journey as a trans woman in India,” says Mehta of the story, which was completely shot on smartphones.
“My mother knows about my sexuality but she doesn’t accept it.
- 9/18/2023
- by Emerson Pearson
- ET Canada
Deepa Mehta’s documentary ‘I am Sirat’, which unravels the inner life of a Delhi-based transgender woman, has created a big buzz after its premiere at the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) here. Shot on smartphones, ‘I am Sirat’ explores the troubling and complex duality of her life.
Sirat has to suppress her inner urge to live like a woman so that her mother, and a married sister and extended relatives are not scandalized.
As she was not willing to abandon her widowed mother as she was her only support, Sirat continues to live with her as her boy and rents a room to live out her real self as a trans woman.
When her lip-synched Punjabi songs and dance reels posted on Instagram get her a big following, she was forced to remove them by her relatives.
For this conflicted trans woman, the high point of her life...
Sirat has to suppress her inner urge to live like a woman so that her mother, and a married sister and extended relatives are not scandalized.
As she was not willing to abandon her widowed mother as she was her only support, Sirat continues to live with her as her boy and rents a room to live out her real self as a trans woman.
When her lip-synched Punjabi songs and dance reels posted on Instagram get her a big following, she was forced to remove them by her relatives.
For this conflicted trans woman, the high point of her life...
- 9/17/2023
- by Agency News Desk
Deepa Mehta’s documentary ‘I am Sirat’, which unravels the inner life of a Delhi-based transgender woman, has created a big buzz after its premiere at the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) here. Shot on smartphones, ‘I am Sirat’ explores the troubling and complex duality of her life.
Sirat has to suppress her inner urge to live like a woman so that her mother, and a married sister and extended relatives are not scandalized.
As she was not willing to abandon her widowed mother as she was her only support, Sirat continues to live with her as her boy and rents a room to live out her real self as a trans woman.
When her lip-synched Punjabi songs and dance reels posted on Instagram get her a big following, she was forced to remove them by her relatives.
For this conflicted trans woman, the high point of her life...
Sirat has to suppress her inner urge to live like a woman so that her mother, and a married sister and extended relatives are not scandalized.
As she was not willing to abandon her widowed mother as she was her only support, Sirat continues to live with her as her boy and rents a room to live out her real self as a trans woman.
When her lip-synched Punjabi songs and dance reels posted on Instagram get her a big following, she was forced to remove them by her relatives.
For this conflicted trans woman, the high point of her life...
- 9/17/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
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