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- STRAIGHT OUT OF THE CLOSET: IS BOLLYWOOD FALLY HAPPY AND GAY?OUT OF THE CLOSET?NANDAKUMAR RAMMOHANPUBLISHED: 10 JAN 2019, 4:41 PM ISTGENR5 M READISHARE THE QUT DAILY
- ARAVD ADIGA'S 'SELECTN DAY' GENTLY PRONOUNC THAT INDIA WILL NEVER HAVE A GAY SPORTS STAR
STRAIGHT OUT OF THE CLOSET: IS BOLLYWOOD FALLY HAPPY AND GAY?OUT OF THE CLOSET?NANDAKUMAR RAMMOHANPUBLISHED: 10 JAN 2019, 4:41 PM ISTGENR5 M READISHARE THE QUT DAILY
Disvery and acceptanceIn addn to class dynamics, there’s a tenr track of homosexual self-disvery that Adiga’s novel explor. In 2003, as a first mastream Hdi cema there was a ic gay sk between Shah Rh Khan and Saif Ali Khan Kal Ho Naa Ho. From that we have e a long way, when you look at the pictn of the gay character Kapoor & Sons (2016) played by Fawad Khan, cintally also a Dharma film.
ARAVD ADIGA'S 'SELECTN DAY' GENTLY PRONOUNC THAT INDIA WILL NEVER HAVE A GAY SPORTS STAR
But the book Manju slowly realis that he is gay and begs to fantasise about Javed. (Photo urty: Dharma Productns)The big change the pictn of homosexual characters particularly that of men, is that the stereotypil image of an effemate man stttg around tight pants has been broken to a large extent.
If you look at Saqib Saleem’s character Karan Johar’s short film Bombay Talki, or even Fawad Khan’s character Kapoor & Sons they're jt like other men but are gay. That's a distctn Bollywood should have learnt years ago, but then aga as a society we haven't, so why expect the movi to do years, gay characters have been clud only as a ic pot or to accentuate the stereotype and play to the gallery.
For the latter, we have Madhur Bhandarkar to thank for creatg a stock personaly out of gay characters. They were void of anythg but the fact they were ‘gay’ films like Page 3 and Fashn.