Bollywood films have played a signifint role wing the disurse around gay rights India
Contents:
- REVIEW: REEL AND THE REAL; PORTRAYAL OF GAY MEN BOLLYWOOD FILMS BY HIMADRI ROY
- INDIAN CELEBS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY AND PROUD TO BE LGBTQIA+
- 8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY
REVIEW: REEL AND THE REAL; PORTRAYAL OF GAY MEN BOLLYWOOD FILMS BY HIMADRI ROY
695; Atlantic Every Bollywood release wh gay characters is marketed as the first film of s kd to break the silence around homosexualy India.
While this approach helps to create hype, obscur the long history of Hdi films that pict same-sex relatnships, engage wh homophobia, and create visibily for people who are margalized society bee of their sexual orientatn. While activism and ligatn were the ont-nners ensurg that Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co was read down by the Supreme Court, Bollywood films too have played a signifint role wing the disurse around gay rights India.
INDIAN CELEBS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY AND PROUD TO BE LGBTQIA+
Himadri Roy’s new book Reel and the Real: Portrayal of Gay Men Bollywood Films mak an effort to chronicle a large number of the movi. Do creasg visibily Bollywood films ensure that gay men India are treated wh rpect?
How many of the films e gay men only to provi ic relief a heteronormative script? Are gay men prented as viants, or as people who have a right to exist on their own terms?
8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY
Roy ph rears to thk about the qutns as they go through the ten chapters his lvg to how enomic liberalizatn opened up space for greater reprentatn of gay men, Roy looks at the trop of homoeroticism and bromance Bollywood films. It stands on the shoulrs of precsors who have portrayed gay men on screen more nservative tim. Also, the kiss between Ayhmann Khurrana and Jendra Kumar was not the first ever exprsn of sexual timacy between two gay men a Hdi film.
” While he vot several pag to remarks on the prer legal stat of gay men’s sexualy, privacy and inty, the book mak only a passg reference to the Supreme Court’s 2018 lg the Navtej Sgh Johar vs Unn of India se. “I have maly foced on the gay and bisexual men of the muny... In the name of the muny, the whole attentn is taken by the gay men, ” he wr.
Author Himadri Roy (Pic urty) This would have been a richer book if Roy had ed theoretil ameworks rooted the lived experienc of gay men India rather than relyg so heavily on the work of Amerin scholars such as Vo Rso and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. What mak this book worth readg is Roy’s ank discsn about the sexual abe that gay men face a heteronormative society, particularly om ps who are meant to be protectors of the law.