'Passag' director nounc 'dangero' NC-17 ratg on a film pictg a gay love story

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• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• INDIA’S FIRST GAY FILM BADNAM BASTI RURFAC AFTER NEARLY HALF A CENTURY'S HIBERNATN BERL ARCHIVE

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Three young people, Haris, a gay pater; Vishnu, a ral kabaddi player and their iend Sia, an activist who refe to nform to domant norms of femy, stggle to fd space and happs a nservative Indian Cy.

Filmmaker and gay activist Sridhar Rangayan embarks on a personal journey to expose the human rights vlatns faced by the LGBTQ muny India due to a dranian law Sectn 377 and homophobic social mor of a patriarchal society. Sridhar Rangayan. Lakshmi disvers her son Van is gay, the fact she uld never accept, chang her whole life upsi down.

My Son is Gay, shows the dark realy of acceptance prevailg our society.

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

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. In 2018, the Supreme Court crimalised homosexualy.