Wh each passg week, we get a new trailer for a Bollywood film featurg a proment queer storyle, but not a queer actor is to be found for a Febary 2020 terview wh Anupama Chopra for Film Compann, the st members of the film Shubh Mangal ZyadaSaavdhan (a Bollywood gay rom-) claimed that they dned a lot of gay actors but uldn’t fd any. Lead
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- 7 GREATT GAY CHARACTERS IN BOLLYWOOD FILMS THAT HELPED US OPEN OUR MDS ABOUT THE COMMUNY
- THE WORST DEPICTN OF GAY CHARACTERS IN BOLLYWOOD
- HOW BOLLYWOOD EVABLY STEREOTYPED GAY CHARACTERS?
- BOLLYWOOD AND THE MISREPRENTATN OF GAY MEN
- PORTRAYAL OF GAY CHARACTERS BOLLYWOOD CEMA
- BOLLYWOOD RELEAS 'FIRST FILM WH GAY MAN AS LEAD CHARACTER'
7 GREATT GAY CHARACTERS IN BOLLYWOOD FILMS THAT HELPED US OPEN OUR MDS ABOUT THE COMMUNY
Fet hammg, Bollywood films have given riture new meang wh their evable ic stereotypg of the gay character on screen. * bollywood gay characters *
It was touted as the first big budget movie to openly revolve around a homosexual settg. The st featured big name actors cludg Priyanka Chopra and for the longt time, if you ed “gay” and “Bollywood” the same sentence, people would jt tomatilly assume you’d be talkg about spe beg a movie that profed off homosexualy, s plot did not actually revolve around… homosexualy.
What ltle bs did have about homosexualy me wh digs and edic remarks about .
Back then, Bollywood had the exce of same-sex terurse beg crimalised and so, there was more stigma attached to then 2018, Sectn 377 was amend, and nsensual gay sex was no longer crimalised. It jt promoted the stereotype that gay men are after heterosexual men. Y, to a certa extent, gay people are liberated about their sexualy, but we don’t borrle strip dance for a rich man jt bee he says “play mic”, and that too on a classil song!
THE WORST DEPICTN OF GAY CHARACTERS IN BOLLYWOOD
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I mean, I know people who learn classil dance, I know people who are gay, and I know people who are gay and learn classil dance. Some si gay characters have, once aga, jt been shown as cliched gay characters. Lookg back, hurts bee you know the people who’d see would f their bras that ‘gay toh aise hi hote hai’, and that is where the problem aris.
”Betta Naan Stop, 27, drag queenWTF queer character: The gay fielr om Pyaar Kiya Toh Darna Kya“I don't know his name; I don't thk there even is a name.
The mic is trmatisg to me bee I have been the victim of ndng that this was how gay people were.
HOW BOLLYWOOD EVABLY STEREOTYPED GAY CHARACTERS?
I remember the way the dience was reactg; took me sends to nnect gay to funny to disgtg. ”Akash, 23, stuntWTF character: Kantaben, played by Sulbha Arya, om Kal Ho Na Ho“While she isn’t a queer character, the homophobia attached to her scen, for ic relief, is equally disturbg. And mak me thk about the ternalised homophobia wh the LGBT muny.
The fact that was ed for ic relief mak me sick to my stomach bee homophobia, bullyg, and non-acceptance is somethg most queer people al wh. The actor portrayed an unapologetic gay man Kartik Sgh this 2020’s rom-.
The movie shows the story of a Gay uple Kartik (Ayhmann Khurrana) and Aman (Jendra Kumar) face a long and difficult road to happs as they battle opposn om Aman’s fay.
BOLLYWOOD AND THE MISREPRENTATN OF GAY MEN
But what is often ignored is that, cema is helpg brgg about a signifint change the society as well – for stance – makg ls homophobic to live . Homosexualy is a topic that is often not discsed out open and many people shy away om .
And here is our entertament dtry, showsg homosexuals aren’t any different om normal people and that they jt have different preferenc is ntributg makg the society a ltle ls homophobic. There have been several stanc when gay characters were ed Bollywood movi for ic relief, but there are several other films that ma attempts to bunkg several myths associated wh homosexualy, and here they are:.
PORTRAYAL OF GAY CHARACTERS BOLLYWOOD CEMA
Rahul Kapoor AKA Fawad Khan om Kapoor and Sons tght that gays aren’t unual! Many of believe that gays are ually feme. Not all men who are gays are feme.
Not only that, Rahul Kapoor AKA Fawad Khan tght the natn that beg a gay don’t change their relatnship wh the fay. And that beg gay isn’t a choice and they aren’t touchy wh every male person they talk to. Ramchandra Siras AKA Manoj Baayee om Aligarh tght how stereotyp n negatively affect the liv of homosexuals.
BOLLYWOOD RELEAS 'FIRST FILM WH GAY MAN AS LEAD CHARACTER'
Shiv Pand AKA Jai and Dhv Ganh AKA Saahil om LOEV tght that gays also al wh jealoy or secury. All relatnships have their highs and lows, and so do gay relatnships. They are equally miserable/ awome; they volve posssivens; there are adorable moments as well, and so they are siar to all other relatnships – tght the movie LOEV – which is touted be India’s first ever full fledged film based on homosexualy.
Dev AKA Ranep Hooda and Avash AKA Saqib Saleem Bombay Talki tght that forcg gays to tie the knot wh a woman don’t change thgs. Ranep is married to Rani Mherjee AKA Gayatri, their relatnship isn’t gog smooth for the obv reasons.