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India's First Transband: Don't Hide Us Away, Don't Keep Us In A Cage

by The Daily Eye Team March 31 2016, 4:53 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 37 secs

KomalJagtap used to work as a wedding singer in India. For about 5,000 rupees (£52), she would dance and sing when people got married or wanted to celebrate a birth. But she had big dreams. She had dabbled in film and TV, before a friend on a movie set told her about auditions for a new pop group.

Now Jagtap is a member of 6 Pack Band, put together last spring and already causing a stir across the country. It’s not an unusual story: bands are manufactured on talent shows all the time. What is unusual about the story of Jagtap and her five bandmates – BhavikaPatil, Fida Khan, ChandrikaSuvarnakar, AshaJagtap and RavinaJagtap – is that they are all transgender.

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Piroj Wadia

PIROJ WADIA is a journalist of long standing, she was Assistant Editor for Cine Blitz and The Daily, and edited TV & Video World, India’s first & only authentic television magazine. She is equally ardent about television as she is about films, and critiques both. She has been keenly watching and observing television since the 1990s and has witnessed the industry’s growth and sea changes. She has served on the jury for the Indian Television Academy (ITA) and the Indian Documentary Producers’ Association (IDPA); and on the script committee of the Children’s Film Society, India (CFSI). Currently, she is researching on the contribution of the Parsis to Indian cinema.

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