Check out this intriguing trailer for Pankh.The film starring Bipasha Basu, Maradona Rebello, Lilette Dubey, Mahesh Manjrekar, Ronit Roy, Sanjeeda Sheikh and directed by Sudipto Chattopadhyaya is set for release on April 2nd! This is not your average filmi film and highlights a phenomenon that was peculiar and exclusive to the Indian film industry—the practise of casting children in roles opposite to their natural genders. What happens when then grow up? This film delves into the psyche of one such person who was forced to assume a gender role other than his natural gender and analyses the disastrous consequences that follow and destroy him in his adulthood. Baby Kusum is the story of a boy burdened with a sexual identity not his own. It is about the brutality of a society that imposes superficial gender codes.
