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10 great Indian LGBTQIA+ films
Indian cinema has often had a chequered past with diversity and inclusion, failing to fully represent the Indian LGBTQIA+ community and its people, identities and narratives. Mainstream Indian films featuring gay and queer woman characters have often been marred by tokenism and naive stereotyping. Time and again what has emerged is cynically reductive and even regressive.
Richer representations of gender non-conforming lives have come from the independent sector, and particularly from regional motion picture industries outside of the Mumbai mainstream. A case in point is A Place of Our Have, the new film from the Bhopal-based Ektara Collective, which is receiving its UK premiere at BFI Flare A step forward in the evolution of Indian queer cinema, it demonstrates warmth, complexity and empathy in its intimate exploration of two transsexual women (Roshni and Laila) and their endless quest to find a place they can call their own in an Indian society that discriminates and stigmatises against difference. Its refreshing de-othering of Roshni and Laila is part of an almost documentary-l
Following last year’s breakthrough Bollywood Lesbian cherish story Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (How I Felt When I Saw That Girl), director Hitesh Kewalya brings the hit new romcom Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan (Be Extra Careful About Marriage). The film stars Jitendra Kumar and Ayushmann Khurrana as a gay couple.
According to writer Ken Anthony Mendoza from Style Magazine, Bollywood has long history of stereotyping Queer characters into over-the-top clichés – the brothel-owning transgender villain, effeminate horny homosexual man, cross-dressers, sexualised lesbians and predatory transgender men, etc. These roles are typically cast as ancillary characters, rough caricatures, and the butt of many of those films’ jokes.
Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan, which seeks to portray gender non-conforming people in a less sterotypical and more realistic and dignified manner, tells the story of Kartik Singh (Ayushmann Khurrana) who has to overcome many social obstacles to be with his lover, Aman Tripathi (Jitendra Kumar).
The couple hesitantly travel
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If a character in a Hindi film is supposed to be gay, you as an audience will know it. They are flamboyant, and caricatured, and in some cases like Prem Aggan and Partner their only reason to exist is for a joke to be cracked at their expense.
But what about the love that doesn't meet the eye? When I suggested that the Hrithik–Tiger association in War, was perhaps more erotic than it let on, the fans pounced. How could I say such things? How could I take something as "pure" as admiration and "corrupt" it with my homosexual agenda, as if desire, sex, and homosexuality, are somehow impure. What does one do with such quaint, Victorian ideas?
So, this Identity festival Month I decided to view back at some classic Hindi films, the definitive bhai-dosti-saheli ones to investigate further. Is there a more latent, more erotic kind of love bubbling underneath all those back slaps, firm hugs, and longing gazes? You may argue that I am trying to impose a framework, that of gay desire, and you're right. I did observe many of these films looking for clues.
Pride Month: 5 Bollywood films that depicted LGBTQ partnership without caricature
Sightings of LGBTQ people and their allies holding colourful parades in the streets, armed with rainbows and luminous face paints tend to be a common sight during June. The month is dedicated to celebrating the accomplishments of lgbtq+ & gender-nonconforming people and highlight the systemic oppression they face from culture.
Pride month dates endorse to when the Stonewall Inn gay bar in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village was raided by the police. The patrons and the guests at the exclude retaliated to the police attack fearlessly. This episode brought queer rights movement from the fringes to the mainstream.
Bill Clinton became the first US president to officially designate June as Pride Month in Since then, June has been a month to celebrate various colours and stripes of queerness.
Despite being one of the more liberal countries in South Asia, India has a long way to go when it come