Story of Chapal Bhaduri who played jatra’s leading lady for decades.
Prabha Devi died and Chapal Rani was born. But I shall come to that later. This is the story of the last of the great female impersonators on stage.
A doyen of the Bengali folk theatre form of jatra, Chapal Bhaduri, or Chapal Rani, ruled the stage between 1958 and 1974.
He played Anjana in Raja Debidas, Amita in Sesh Arati and Iravati in Maharaja Parikshit.