Kolkatta with Uma (Bishakha Datta)

Kolkatta with Uma

Director: Bishakha Datta

Duration: 00:23:59; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 33.868; Saturation: 0.183; Lightness: 0.254; Volume: 0.293; Cuts per Minute: 3.542; Words per Minute: 12.752

The event captures Uma, a veteran in prostitution and a theatre actress's way of life. She teaches about sexuality and sexual diseases to Babua, the transgender, she sings and talks about her old times with Bishakha, the director of the film and the event also gives the viewer a peek of visual images of several locations of Kolkata.

Babua: Acquired Immuno deficiency syndrome
Uma (U): in Bengali?
Babua: Sexual disease
U: I'll slap you… you just now said what this is.
Babua: Acquired Immuno deficiency syndrome
U: meaning you acquire from somebody. Do you understand the disease now? If the customer has sex without a condom, and he has HIV then the girl has high chances of getting infected. So it transmits from one to the other. You understand, its acquire something from somebody.
U: How many types of infection?
Babua: Syphillis, Pearl like warts; Acuminata, cauliflower like wart.
U: How many types of white discharge
Babua: four types- Candiyaisis, curd like discharge, Glamaidiya, pus like discharge, Tycumnosis - Foamish white watery discharge, LGB- infectious watery discharge in the pubic region, Citule Bertholinitis, Hepatitis B, Scabies
U: Meaning itchy
U and Babua - PID Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
U: Alisa Test and then
Babua - PDRL and then there is one
U: Alisa, Spot test, Line Immune Acid
U: Medium?
Babua: Blood, Dry discharge
U: How
Babua: Multiple Sex partners,
U: 1. Well it is sex without protection, having sex with someone infected with AIDS (Babua repeats after U)
U: 2. When one accepts without a blood test (Babua repeats after U)
U: 3. needle or syringe, if used without sterilization (Babua repeats after U)
U: 4. from pregnant mother to the child (Babua repeats after U)
Babua: when a dog bites you, from hydrophobia, from water, diarrhea
U: what are the symptoms of AIDS?
Babua: fever throughout months, will feel itchy all over, the glands in your underarms, throat an pubic region would swell, there will be white patches on the tongue, loose motions, loss of weight. There would be pneumonia.
U: this is fine, but you remember the mistakes…right? You have to learn them by heart. When the teacher asks, it'll be shameful if you can't answer. Please make sure you learn them.
Bowbazar
Kolkata
The sequence captures Uma in her room in Bowbazar is sitting with Babua, a transgender who is Uma's student and helps Uma in the household chores.
Babua is made to learn the diseases and their symptoms that can happen with unprotected sex and transmission of infection from one person to the other.
acquired immuno deficiency syndrome
acuminata
aids
alisa
alisa test
babua
bertholinitis
blood
candiyaisis
cauliflower
chores
citule
condom
curd
diarrohea
discharge
disease
dry
foam
glamaidiya
glands
hepatitis-b
hiv
hydrophobia
infection
inflammatory
lgb pubic
line immune acid medium
loose motion
needle
patches
pdrl
pearl
pelvic
pid
pneumonia
pus
scabies
sex
shame
spot test
sterelize
student
swell
syphillis
syringe
test
throat
transgender
tycumnosis
uma
underarms
unprotected
warts
weight
white
Kolkata
aids
babua
brother
gopal da
infection
makeup
mentor
prostitute.
sex
sex worker
song
theatre
uma

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