After gay kiss Bombay Talki to lbian smooch Go Goa Gone, Indian cema has e to age – and sudnly

Contents:

• BOLLYWOOD'S 100-YEAR KISS SPARKS BATE ON GAY FILMS
• LBIAN AND GAY KISSG SCEN BOLLYWOOD
• AFTER GAY KISS ‘BOMBAY TALKI’,LBIAN SMOOCH ‘GO GOA GONE’
• AFTER GAY KISS BOMBAY TALKI TO LBIAN SMOOCH GO GOA GONE, INDIAN CEMA HAS E TO AGE – AND SUDNLY
• AFTER GAY KISS BOMBAY TALKI, LBIAN SMOOCH GO GOA GONE

BOLLYWOOD'S 100-YEAR KISS SPARKS BATE ON GAY FILMS

Commentator Sandip Roy says one of the shorts is pretty revolutnary bee has a gay protagonist, and what is probably Bollywood's first gay kiss. In 100 years of Indian cema, we'd never seen anythg like this: a man-on-man gay kiss a Bollywood movie.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)ROY: Outsi a multiplex showg the film, Sayan Bhattacharya, an edor wh the Indian culture magaze Kdle, says he'd heard there might be a gay BHATTACHARYA: It was nice.

LBIAN AND GAY KISSG SCEN BOLLYWOOD

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)ROY: And gay men, when they show up at all, are queeny stereotyp.

Aap-ka-beta-gay-hai, he lik Sayan Bhattacharya says the gay characters are sad clich.

It's like a pet But the character "Bombay Talki" is a different kd of gay man - out, sexual and unapologetic, even wh his boss at the magaze where he's an tern.

AFTER GAY KISS ‘BOMBAY TALKI’,LBIAN SMOOCH ‘GO GOA GONE’

But as a iend says, "Bombay Talki" wh s own stereotyp - gay as stalker, self-stctive, hband-snatcher.

AFTER GAY KISS BOMBAY TALKI TO LBIAN SMOOCH GO GOA GONE, INDIAN CEMA HAS E TO AGE – AND SUDNLY

And Sayan Bhattacharya, the magaze edor, is not readg too much to the big gay kiss.

BHATTACHARYA: I thk 's too early to thk of as a landmark, bee whether 's a landmark or not, you know, we will only know two years later if opens the floodgat of more A gay kiss wh s own six-mute song and wet chiffon shirts the Swiss Alps - now that would be a real Bollywood revolutn. A still of Ranep Hooda and Saqib Saleem om Bombay TalkiHighlightsNew Bollywood film Bombay Talki is billed as a tone not only for markg 100 years of Indian cema -- is also one of the untry's few mastream movi ever to have shown a gay kiss.

While such scen the past may have eliced tlls India's populist sgle-screen theatr, this time the kiss has been wng applse om dienc, acrdg to gay rights advote N Karani.

AFTER GAY KISS BOMBAY TALKI, LBIAN SMOOCH GO GOA GONE

"That's a posive reactn, which may dite that society is more ready than film producers when to gay stori, " he said. The tal Bombay Talki have sparked bate over such issu Bollywood, where homosexualy has long been kept the closet -- or portrayed stereotypil rol.

"Mastream Hdi cema has portrayed gay characters as feme, over the top, obssed wh sex, and to be lghed at, " said director Onir, who only his first name.