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Having long played female roles in traveling theater productions, Chapal Bhaduri struggled to find work after more women started performing in the 1960s and 1970s.

Having long played female roles in traveling theater productions, Chapal Bhaduri struggled to find work after more women started performing in the 1960s and 1970s.

Having long played female roles in traveling theater productions, Chapal Bhaduri struggled to find work after more women started performing in the 1960s and 1970s.

Now retired and in his mid-80s, Bhaduri was considered the last female impersonator of “jatra,” a traveling musical theater tradition in Bengali-speaking parts of northeast India and Bangladesh.