Will Ayushman Do Justice to the Transgender Role?
Ayushman Deshraj Joshi surprised and shocked his fans at all once on
Monday night. He surprised them by declaring he is going to do a transgender
role with the posts on his social media. Then with the same post, he shocked
his fans with the nudity. Oh ya! you heard it right. He was faulting a bare
body in of the post just have a look!
According to the post description, he is going to do a series based on Danish artist Gerda Wegener and Einar Wegener named The Metamorphic Manifesto. The Hollywood movie The Danish Girl, based on their story was already a hit that was released in 2015.
He is going to play the role of Einar Wegener who
did the first-ever documented sex reassignment surgery and popularly known
as Lili Elbie afterward.
The
post reads, "The Metamorphic Manifesto is an attempt to tell a story of
the first man in history to undergo surgery to become a woman. This series is
the Nepalese adaptation of the remarkable lives of Danish artists, Lili Elbe
and Gerda Wegener. When a wife asks her husband to pose as a female model for
her painting, it triggers the suppressed identification in him and this series
navigates his groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer."
The
pictures he has posted reveal his aristocratic as well as feminine sides for
the series. The man being projected as a female model to his wife eventually
identifies his gender. Seems like the story of the series will present the side
of androgynous male as well. The series includes his brother and well-known
actor Aasirman who is seen to caressing another character makes an observant
feel the series includes an androgynous side of a man. The man on the mirror
holding his body symbolizes an oblivious stage of gender identification. The
man undergoing the process of treatment is seen pale but his eyes ambivalent.
It will be interesting to find out the inner psychic in the series. Through the
pictures, we can see the acceptability of gender roles inherit by the
characters. The pain and happiness of the character's journey are presented in
a promising way. The photographed form of revelation excites the audience to
watch it. Sanjog Rai is a mind behind it. The posted photographs have revealed
a little and a lot to be revealed factors that keep the audience speculate and
wait.
In
the context of Nepal, the artistic representation of the inner psychic and
bare body in a representational art like series is rare. I believe at
first, it is going to be a major source of amusement and then it will be
instrumental to spread awareness about gender roles and sexual preferences of
individuals in Nepal.
Ayushman says that the project
is close to his heart. Despite it being a grandeur opportunity for the artists
and makers, the matter of self-exploration and finding their own identity in
the presence of a bare body is a rare subject in Nepal. So he urges the
audience to see with more than just the eyes. As of now, the attempt has been
admired by so many and we need to wait to for the real review of cinematic
representation of the art named The
Metamorphic Manifesto
"A project I hold close to my heart as it never felt like work and for the fact that I am a believer that Love between two hearts is beyond what gender you were brought into this world as, that too without a choice of your own. I understand that many of us may feel queasy to scroll through the carousel of pictures since it may not abide by the social norms we live by but I urge you to see this with more than just your eyes. Try to understand what so many people have gone through with no fault of theirs. This is a story about the struggles of not men, not women but human beings. A human’s endeavor to finding themselves that is completely in their right to do so."
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