{"id":2038916,"date":"2025-09-21T12:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T12:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2038916"},"modified":"2025-09-21T12:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T12:34:07","slug":"queer-bahurupi-love-story-the-magical-men-heads-to-busans-asian-project-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/queer-bahurupi-love-story-the-magical-men-heads-to-busans-asian-project-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Queer Bahurupi Love Story \u2018The Magical Men\u2019 Heads to Busan\u2019s Asian Project Market"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Busan\u2019s Asian Project Market<\/a> will present \u201cThe Magical Men,\u201d a queer love story from writer-director Biplob Sarkar<\/a> that spotlights the marginalized Bahurupi performance community of South Asia. Produced by Fran Borgia<\/a>, Fran\u00e7ois d\u2019Artemare<\/a>, Sankhajit Biswas<\/a> and Sarkar<\/a>, the film explores intimacy, resilience and identity against the backdrop of fading folk traditions and entrenched social taboos.<\/p>\n

Set in Old Dhaka<\/a>, \u201cThe Magical Men\u201d follows Sukumar<\/a> and Hemanta<\/a>, Bahurupi artists who embody Shiva and Parvati<\/a> during Neel Shashti Puja, even as their craft no longer sustains them. Their secret romance unfolds amid strained family ties, police harassment, and the performers\u2019 personal struggles, culminating in Hemanta\u2019s disappearance and Sukumar\u2019s crisis of memory, love and survival.<\/p>\n

For Sarkar, who screened \u201cThe Stranger<\/a>\u201d in Busan\u2019s New Currents section in 2023, the new project builds on his commitment to stories of marginalized communities. \u201cThey embody gods and goddesses in their performances, carrying the fading tradition,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Busan\u2019s Asian Project Market will present \u201cThe Magical Men,\u201d a queer love story from writer-director Biplob Sarkar that spotlights the marginalized Bahurupi performance community of South Asia. Produced by Fran Borgia, Fran\u00e7ois d\u2019Artemare, Sankhajit Biswas and Sarkar, the film explores intimacy, resilience and identity against the backdrop of fading folk traditions and entrenched social taboos. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2038917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2038916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Queer-Bahurupi-Love-Story-\u2018The-Magical-Men-Heads-to-Busans.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2038917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}