Common gender: the film

A Bangladeshi film about a love affair between a transgender person and a Hindu boy. The director has said that he was inspired to make the film after he saw a transgender person attacked for using a female toilet at a shopping mall. The film aims to bring awareness to the troubles faced by transgender people who remain the most marginalized people in the traditionally conservative South Asia. So he began to explore the hijra enclaves and talk to people. ‘I heard their stories and went to some of them and asked about their personal lives and picked up some stories’, said Robin. ‘I went deep into their story and cried. They can’t be human like this — how do they survive?’