Every day, she dresses gracefully, boards Mumbai local trains and brightens people's journeys with her laughter and her dance moves. Here's the story of Pooja Sharma, a trans woman who is also a social media star.
Thanks to crossbyteproductions for the footage.
Thanks to crossbyteproductions for the footage.
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00:00Look how much they love me.
00:04What should I ask from all of them?
00:08Please, fill my room with all of them.
00:31How many ladies do you think I can ask for?
00:37All of them.
00:41Good, I said all of them.
00:45I don't have to ask anyone.
00:49I can ask anyone I want.
00:53I am not a person who is not asked for anything.
00:56But when I climb in such a crowd, people look at me like this, but don't think that I have
01:14come to beg.
01:15Everyone comes and stands around me.
01:16It's so crowded.
01:17Then from there, everyone comes close to me and stands to see me.
01:18Whenever I start begging, people look at me so lovingly, they laugh so much, I ask for
01:25one rupee.
01:26The whole train goes to Bombay, the whole train goes to Bombay, I ask for one rupee.
01:32The one rupee line has come.
01:34Now I don't need to ask for money.
01:37Everyone tells me that you have come to beg, you have come to beg, you have come to beg,
01:44I don't need money.
01:45Everyone tells me that the way you wear a saree, you look like Rekha.
01:52Your dress, your jewelry, everything looks like Rekha.
01:57When did you find out that you are a beggar and how did you accept that?
02:04I don't go to play with my friends.
02:07Because I used to go to play with all the ladies in the area.
02:12But I really liked it.
02:14I used to win in every game.
02:16I used to win in all the games played by the ladies.
02:20People also loved me when I was young.
02:24But even then I didn't know that I was a little different.
02:30I am a boy, but why don't I go with my boyfriend's friend?
02:36So why am I going with the ladies?
02:38When I was a kid, my uncle used to scold me.
02:44But I didn't understand anything.
02:46Because I go there only.
02:48There is a Pooja in my area.
02:51There is a Pooja in our village.
02:53Then there is a dance competition.
02:56So I used to dance like this in the area, in the Pooja.
03:00I used to dance like this.
03:02All the boys used to give their names.
03:06They used to dance like this.
03:08What did I do?
03:10I wore my sister's saree and went to dance.
03:16Everyone started laughing.
03:20Then there is a Thakur Dada in my area.
03:25I am starting to understand a little bit.
03:29I am understanding a little bit.
03:31Then my uncle Thakur Dada came to my house.
03:36Then my uncle, my mother, my father, my uncle, my mother's brother.
03:44Everyone was talking to me.
03:46Because my father is a priest there too.
03:49We have a lot of names.
03:51Everyone came.
03:53Everyone started talking.
03:55Look, I think your son is different.
03:58But at that time I didn't have anything like this in my mind.
04:02Your son seems to be different.
04:05Put him to work.
04:10Put him to work.
04:12Then they left me to work.
04:16Because I know that my parents were influenced by the people of the area.
04:21They taught me something.
04:23When they said this, then I understood a little bit.
04:27What is actually happening.
04:29When my parents left, the priest left.
04:34Even then I saw my parents crying at night.
04:39They didn't say anything to me.
04:42I was very sad about this.
04:45What am I? I am not a human being.
04:49Because whatever I am doing, I am not doing it on purpose.
04:54I am doing it on purpose.
04:58Whenever I go to the market, my mother tells me to bring something from the shop.
05:06At that time, big people, big people loved me a lot.
05:20Did you understand what I wanted to say?
05:24Big people loved me a lot.
05:27Big people.
05:29I don't know. But I used to like it.
05:37Someone used to give me chocolate.
05:42Ice cream is very expensive there.
05:47They used to give me good expensive things.
05:52What I am now.
05:58If I had known that before, I would have never let what happened to me happen.
06:07What I understand now.
06:10If I had known this before, I would have never let what happened to me happen.