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The trailer of Ashish Sharma starrer Khejdi is hard-hitting

Ashish Sharma is a big name on television and has also starred in a couple of Bollywood films. His performance in TV shows like Chandragupta Maurya, Rangrasiya, Siya Ke Ram and others has been appreciated a lot. The actor is now all set for his next film Khejdi in which he plays the role of a transgender.

The trailer of Khejdi has been released and it is quite hard-hitting. The movie is about the journey of a transgender who is kept away from the outside world. The trailer has scenes that will give you goosebumps and Ashish’s performance is surely one of the highlights of the trailer.


While Khejdi is yet to get a theatrical release in India, the film has already made a mark at many film festivals in the country as well as internationally. The film was premiered at the 5th Annual DFW South Asian Film Festival in Texas, it was screened at the Habitat Film Festival in Delhi and was also screened at Kashish Queer Film Festival 2018 in Mumbai. Khejdi is also the only Indian movie to be an opening film at this prestigious film festival Homochrom in Germany.

The film is now all set for a release in Thailand on 18th July 2019 which makes it the first LGBTQ movie from India to get an international release before the Indian release.

While talking about the film Ashish had earlier said, “While writing and filming for Khejdi, I got to know the thought process of the society and trans people equally. It’s got to be a two-way street — the society needs to be accepting and accommodating, but even the transgender people need to embrace their identity with grace. During the process of shooting the film, we saw the real conditions transgender persons live in, the atrocities, the discrimination and the myths that surround them. It shook us from within. We knew it's time we told a story from the trans people’s point-of-view.”

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