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- 7 GREATT GAY CHARACTERS IN BOLLYWOOD FILMS THAT HELPED US OPEN OUR MDS ABOUT THE COMMUNY
- PORTRAYAL OF GAY CHARACTERS BOLLYWOOD CEMA
7 GREATT GAY CHARACTERS IN BOLLYWOOD FILMS THAT HELPED US OPEN OUR MDS ABOUT THE COMMUNY
Although homosexualy was only crimalised India 2018, proper reprentatn of LGBTQIA+ muni Indian cema has long been gatherg speed. Mastream Indian films featurg gay and lbian characters have often been marred by tokenism and naive stereotypg.
Memori March (2010)Bengali filmmaker Ruparno Ghosh is an in of India’s queer muny and was one of the first openly gay artists Indian cema. Ghosh plays Ornub, the son’s gay partner, who challeng Arati’s socially termed perceptns of love and pannship, leadg to a tersely marted crique of the hypocrisi of middle-class Bengali society. Aligarh (2015)Sectn 377 is part of a penal outlawg gay sex, which had remaed force India for 157 years.
PORTRAYAL OF GAY CHARACTERS BOLLYWOOD CEMA
In 2018, the Supreme Court crimalised homosexualy.
The queer romance is picted by director Geethu Mohandas wh a tenrns that mak universal, focg on the pannship that emerg between Akbar, a gangster, and Ameer (Roshan Mathew), a gay man who is af. As a South Asian rom-, Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan's ma achievement, bis the evint and much-need gay reprentatn, is how light-hearted the acceptance, g out, and even discrimatory behavr is portrayed, which make such them more approachable for society general, and therefore is able to reach a greater number of people who wouldn't re to watch an LGBT-related film otherwise.
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 .