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Contents:

• 8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY
• GAY NEWS HDI
• BOLLYWOOD RELEAS 'FIRST FILM WH GAY MAN AS LEAD CHARACTER'
• ALL’S ‘GAY’ BOLLYWOOD?
• INDIA’S FIRST GAY FILM BADNAM BASTI RURFAC AFTER NEARLY HALF A CENTURY'S HIBERNATN BERL ARCHIVE

8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY

The story tak another turn when Rahul’s mother Suna Kapoor (Rathna Pathak Shah) breaks down disverg that her 'perfect' son is gay. Not once the movie, they mentn the word ‘gay’ or is openly pictg g out story. Unbothered by the societal norms and stereotyp, Avash tak a h start life and secur an ternship a popular magaze and gets close to a lleague named Gayatri (Rani Merji).

Gayatri, trapped a lovels marriage, disvers that her hband Dev (Ranep Hooda) is a closeted homosexual. The film picts how Sweety fac extreme opposn om her fay and society for homosexualy.

GAY NEWS HDI

The film picts the story of two gay men Aman and Kartik. The film portrays the shame that acpani homosexualy and disabily s ways.

BOLLYWOOD RELEAS 'FIRST FILM WH GAY MAN AS LEAD CHARACTER'

They portray the problems Nikhil fac when the police arrts him and puts him behd bars for beg homosexual and havg HIV AIDs. Nikhil's sister Anamika (Juhi Chawla) and boyiend Nigel (Purab Kohli) turn the ray of hope for him and love him the same which they ed to do Read: Bollywood’s inic film posters reimaged wh same-sex relatnships to celebrate Pri month, check out More Pag: Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan Box Office Collectn, Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan Movie ReviewTags: Aligarh, Anil Kapoor, Ayhmann Khurrana, Bombay Talki, Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga, Fawad Khan, Gay, Hansal Mehta, Jendra Kumar, Juhi Chawla, Kalki Koechl, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA Communy, Manoj Baayee, Margara Wh A Straw, My Brother Nikhil, Purab Kohli, Rajat Kapoor, Rajkummar Rao, Ranep Hooda, Ratna Pathak Shah, Rishi Kapoor, Sanjay Suri, Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan, Sidharth Malhotra, Sonam Kapoor AhujaBOLLYWOOD NEWS - LIVE UPDATESCatch for latt Bollywood News, New Bollywood Movi update, Box office llectn, New Movi Release, Bollywood News Hdi, Entertament News, Bollywood Live News Today & Upg Movi 2023 and stay updated wh latt hdi movi only on Bollywood Hungama.

Not long after India’s top urt overturned a lonial era law crimalizg homosexualy, Shelly Chopra Dhar and Gazal Dhaliwal’s 2019 edy-drama “Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga” picted a queer woman’s attempt to e out to her fay. “Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan” (2020), “Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui” (2021) and “Badhaai Do” (2022) each feature gay or trans characters relatnships who eventually e up agast disapprovg fay members. ) Still, as one of the first Indian films to pict homosexualy on screen, igned a discsn about sexualy and LGBTQ rights morn India.

In the years that followed, dramas such as “My Brother… Nikhil” (2005) and “Margara Wh A Straw” (2014) portrayed queer characters sensively – the former is the story of a man diagnosed wh HIV who battl homophobia om his parents and Indian thori, while the latter is about a bisexual teenager wh cerebral palsy who falls love wh a young bld activist.

ALL’S ‘GAY’ BOLLYWOOD?

It was more mon, however, for Indian films to rce LGBTQ characters to stereotyp or to voke homosexualy for edic purpos. The 2004 film “Girliend” featur a lbian character who is jealo and vdictive and ultimately meets a tragic end – a textbook example of the “bury your gays” trope. And the 2008 smash h “Dostana, ” about two men who pretend to be a uple so they n share an apartment wh a woman, is rife wh ritured notns of gay men.

Today, such films are wily unrstood to be homophobic. In “Dostana, ” for stance, the character Sameer’s mother is at first distrght at the thought of her son beg gay but ultimately to love and accept his (fake) partner as a son--law – that moment, when removed om s te ntext, is relatively progrsive for s time.

In 1861, the lonial ernment troduced a law crimalizg homosexualy, which stood ntrast to centuri of lol cultural attus around sexualy and was only overturned 2018. “Thereafter, ted Indians, cludg all natnalists om right to left and everythg between, ternalized the Wtern ia that homosexualy is unnatural, abnormal, a s and a crime, ” Vana wrote an email to CNN. Many Hdi films om the ’50s to the ‘80s pict tense male iendships that n be terpreted as gay, said Vana.

INDIA’S FIRST GAY FILM BADNAM BASTI RURFAC AFTER NEARLY HALF A CENTURY'S HIBERNATN BERL ARCHIVE

“What we do know is that homosexualy was well attted Bombay film-makg circl; film-makers were not naïve about .

As stigmas around homosexualy and genr fluidy persist India, LGBTQ muni South Asia and the diaspora have reclaimed certa Bollywood songs about iendship as their own, said Anjaria. “Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan, ” a story about a gay uple stgglg to be accepted by their fai, allus to the inic motorbike scene “Sholay” and clus nods to films such as 1964’s “Dosti. But so far, mastream Hdi films pictg LGBTQ love stori have flopped at the box office — a realy that filmmakers and actors volved the projects have attributed to homophobia and cultural stigma India.