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.
THE WORST DEPICTN OF GAY CHARACTERS IN BOLLYWOOD
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It jt promoted the stereotype that gay men are after heterosexual men.
HOW BOLLYWOOD EVABLY STEREOTYPED GAY CHARACTERS?
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!
BOLLYWOOD AND THE MISREPRENTATN OF GAY MEN
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.
PORTRAYAL OF GAY CHARACTERS BOLLYWOOD CEMA
The mic is trmatisg to me bee I have been the victim of ndng that this was how gay people were. 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.
BOLLYWOOD RELEAS 'FIRST FILM WH GAY MAN AS LEAD CHARACTER'
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-.