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Karuvarai Pookkal (2011)

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Length 2h25

Karuvari Pookkal (Tamil: KARUVARAI POOKKAL, Karuvarai Pookkal ; English: FLOWERS OF WOMB) is a 2011 Tamil real-life story film co-written and directed by IPS Xavier. The film features Smile Vidya and Julia Robert in the role of Gopi/Gopika, a transgender person, and Pallavias the widowed mother; Aswatha as sister and Haris as brother play supporting roles.

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Karuvarai Pookkal, the first Tamil film about transgender people, is a docu-feature film. It illustrates the difficult life and folklore of transgender people in India especially in Tamil Nadu. It portrays the critical situation of the family where a transgender child is born, discusses the difficulties and taboos of bringing up that child, and the difficulties of the child itself.

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