Phirki's Transgendered Love Story

An acclaimed, award-winning film directed by Deepa Mehta (The Lunchbox, The Wedding Date), Phirki Serial is a story about love, identity and the human condition. A transgender woman named Phirki rescues an orphaned little girl from a slum and faces many hardships in raising her as a transgendered person because of social conventions and social injustice. The film also delves into the lives of her daughter, who wants to become a doctor but struggles with gender dysphoria, and her wife, who wants to start their own business but does not want to be associated with a "transgendered" person.

With a plot that revolves around the different stages of Phirki's transition and coming out, the film is a film that will keep you guessing all through. Although the characters are not openly transgendered, they are often portrayed as such in order to reinforce the themes and messages presented throughout the film.

In one scene, Phirki narrates about how she has decided to wear a skirt and tops over her head for the first time after her transition. She also narrates about how she has undergone both an inner transformation and outward transformation and has even gone through surgeries on both her body and mind. Even when her story takes an unexpected turn, there is no change in the manner in which Phirki narrates her experiences, as if she is telling a story to the rest of the world.

As well as Phirki narrating her story, Deepa Mehta turns her screenplay into a moving film using several sequences from the film. The film has its share of beautiful visuals, and it also has excellent sound. The music is soothing and gives the movie a certain sense of peace. In fact, the film is so relaxing that many people are willing to take it to the cinema and watch it again.

In one sequence, a boy named Gagal who is obsessed with the concept of being a girl finds out that his friend Phirki has come out as transgendered. He runs away to her house and tries to force her to let him help her find the man that she was meant to be; however, she refuses and ends up calling the police. The sequence depicts Gagal's dilemma because he is so deeply in love with Phirki.

Throughout the film, we see the conflict between Phirki's desire to be accepted and her sense of gender dysphoria. It is the conflict between the two that provides much of the motivation that drives the storyline.

In another sequence, Phirki narrates her relationship with her daughter, Nanda, who is very concerned about her mother's transition and feels as if her mother is going against society's norms by transitioning to a woman. When Nanda visits Phirki's house to see what's happening, she is dismayed to find that Nanda is dressed as a boy in order to protect her mother from her father. When Nanda realizes that her father wants to see his daughter, she decides to accompany her mother to the store and tell her father what she knows. However, when Nanda arrives at her home, Phirki is in the same predicament again and decides to go back to her father's home with her daughter instead.

As a result of this episode, Phirki decides that her mother has betrayed her and decides to return home to her father. Phirki's anger over Nanda's deception fuels her fight with her husband. Afterward, her husband attacks her and begins to beat her in order to force her to return home and leave her alone in the house. Her mother finally decides to go back home to her father's house and reunite with her family after learning of her transgender status.