TY  - ADVS
AU  - Monteiro,Anjali  
AU  -  Monteiro,Anjali
AU  - Jayasankar,K.P.
ED  - Tata Institute of Social Sciences. (Organization)
TI  - Our family
U1  - 791.4372 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Bombay
PB  - Monteiro,Anjali  
KW  - Gender-division, Tamilnadu-India, trans-gendered female, violence, exploitation, portraits - India, affection and courage, Social issues, exclusion , ethnography, Documentary film
KW  - Feature
KW  - migfg
N1  - Cataloged from container; What does it mean to cross that line which sharply divides us on the basis of gender? To free oneself of the socially constructed onus of being male? Is there life beyond a hetero-normative family? Set in Tamilnadu, India, Our Family brings together excerpts from Nirvanam, a one person performance, by Pritham K. Chakravarthy and a family of three generations of trans-gendered female subjects. Aasha, Seetha and Dhana, who are bound together by ties of adoption, belong to the community called Aravanis (aka Hijras, in some parts of India). The film juxtaposes the "normality" of their existence with the dark and powerful narrative by Pritham- "Nirvanam"; Nirvanam (Liberation) refers to the act of liberating oneself from the male body and transforming oneself to a female. This narrative bears witness to the tumultuous journey towards a reinvented selfhood, a journey fraught with violence, exploitation, affection and courage
UR  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_XTE4176Iw
ER  -