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• 8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY
• VAL LGBTQ FILMS FROM ACROSS INDIA MEHAK SIDDIQUI 07 JUNE 2023 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT WHILE INDIAN CEMA GENERAL IS NOTOR FOR S STEREOTYPIL, C AND OFTEN ROGATORY PICTNS OF THE LGBTQ MUNY, SOME FILMMAKERS HAVE BROKEN THIS MOULD TO EXPLORE SEXUALY SENSIVE, RMED WAYS. DEEPA MEHTA’S 1996 FILM FIRE IS PERHAPS THE MOST REVERED OF THE GROUNDBREAKG FILMS, BUT HERE ARE 12 MORE WORTH WATCHG. VIEW ALL TRIPS ALIGARH THIS 2016 FILMEARNED ACLAS FOR S SENSIVE PICTN OF THE NTROVERSIAL REAL-LIFE SE OF THE LATE DR SHRIVAS RAMCHANDRA SIRAS, A FORMER PROFSOR AT ALIGARH MLIM UNIVERSY. DIRECTED BY HANSAL MEHTA OF SHAHID AND CY LIGHTS, THIS FILM FEATUR CREDIBLE ACTORS LIKE MANOJ BAAI AND RAJKUMAR RAO. THE BRISH FILM INSTUTE LLED ALIGARH “PROBABLY THE BT FILM YET ON THE INDIAN GAY MALE EXPERIENCE.” TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP GREECE THAILAND EGYPT MOROC TURKEY SOUTH AI MEXI BALI SPA JAPAN INDIA ECUADOR CROATIA ICELAND SANCHARRAM (THE JOURNEY) THIS 2004 MALAYALAM FEATURE FILM TELLS THE TERFAH LOVE STORY OF KIRAN (PLAYED BY SUHASI V. NAIR) AND DELILAH (PLAYED BY SHTHY MENON). SET RAL KERALA, SANCHARRAM OFFERS AN HONT EXPLORATN OF THE SOCIETAL ATTUS AND FAY DYNAMICS SURROUNDG HOMOSEXUALY. IT WAS DIRECTED BY LIGY J. PULLAPPALLY, WHO WON A SPECIAL JURY AWARD FOR THE FILM AT THE 2004 KERALA STATE FILM AWARDS. AREKTI PREMER GOLPO (JT ANOTHER LOVE STORY) DIRECTED BY KSHIK GANGULY, THIS BENGALI FILM STARS THE LATE RUPARNO GHOSH AND INDRANEIL SENGUPTA LEADG ROL. IT WAS THE FIRST FILM ON HOMOSEXUALY TO BE SHOT AFTER THE IAL CRIMALIZATN OF SECTN 377 OF THE INDIAN PENAL CO THE YEAR 2009. MAJESTIC TURKEY TRAVEL OM THE BAZAARS OF ISTANBUL TO THE BETIFUL BEACH OF ANTALYA. VIEW TRIP TAMANNA (DIRE) FEATURG PARH RAWAL ONE OF HIS MOST ACCLAIMED ROL, THIS FILM WON THE NATNAL AWARD 1998 FOR THE BT FILM ON OTHER SOCIAL ISSU. IT MARKED POOJA BHATT’S BUT AS A PRODUCER AND EVEN FEATURED HER THE TLE ROLE. SOME HAVE CLAIMED THAT THIS FILM IS BASED ON A TE STORY, ALTHOUGH THIS HAS NOT BEEN OFFICIALLY NFIRMED. GULABI AAA (THE PK MIRROR) INDIA‘S FIRST EVER FILM ON DRAG QUEENS HAS ALL THE ENTERTAMENT VALUE OF A BOLLYWOOD FLICK WHILE ALSO OFFERG NDID SIGHTS TO THE LIV OF TRANSSEXUAL DIVIDUALS. UNFORTUNATELY, LIKE MANY FILMS THAT CHALLENGE CULTURAL BOUNDARI INDIA, THIS FILM FTIVAL H WAS BANNED BY THE UNTRY’S BOARD OF FILM CERTIFITN AND WAS ACCED OF BEG “VULGAR AND OFFENSIVE.” NEVERTHELS, THE FILM HAS GARNERED IMMENSE CRIL ACCLAIM AND SUPPORT ACROSS THE GLOBE. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. | © SOLARIS PICTUR DARMIYAAN (IN BETWEEN) SET BOLLYWOOD DURG THE 1940S, THIS POIGNANT DRAMA TELLS THE STORY OF THE NARCISSISTIC FILM STAR ZEENAT BEGUM (PLAYED BY KIRRON KHER) AND HER TRANSGENR SON, IMMI (PLAYED BY ARIF ZAKARIA). THE FILM GARNERED ACCLAIM FOR S RIVETG PORTRAYAL OF THE LIV OF TRANSGENR DIVIDUALS, OR HIJRAS, INDIA. MEGHADHANHYA (THE COLOR OF LIFE) RELEASED 2013, THIS IS THE FIRST GUJARATI FILM ON HOMOSEXUALY AND WAS DIRECTED BY FORMER AYURVEDA PRACTNER K R DEVAMANI. IT IS PARTLY NARRATED BY PRCE MANVENDRA SGH GOHIL, WHO IS WILY KNOWN FOR BEG THE SON AND PROBABLE HEIR OF THE MAHARAJA OF RAIPLA GUJARAT. IN AN TERVIEW WH A GUJARATI NEWS CHANNEL, GOHIL EXPLAED HOW THE FILM IS A BOLD ATTEMPT TO SUBVERT MISNCEPTNS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY AND SHOW THE DISCRIMATN AND STIGMA THAT IS FACED BY THE GAY MUNY. MARGARA WH A STRAW STARRG THE OUTSTANDG KALKI KOECHL AS A PATIENT WH CEREBRAL PALSY, MARGARA WH A STRAW IS AN IMPORTANT FILM BEE OF S SENSIVE EXPLORATNS OF BOTH DISABILY AND FEMALE SEXUALY. SCREENED AT A PLETHORA OF GLOBAL FILM FTIVALS, MARGARA WON SEVERAL AWARDS, CLUDG THE AUDIENCE AWARD AND THE YOUTH JURY AWARD AT THE VOUL FILM FTIVAL FRANCE LAST YEAR. | © VIA 18 MOTN PICTUR NAANU AVANALLA, AVALU THIS KANNADA FEATURE FILM (DIRECTED BY B. S. LGAVA) IS BASED ON THE LIFE OF LIVG SE VIDYA, A TRANSGENR DIVIDUAL WHO GREW UP MALE BUT LATER EMBRACED HER FEME INTY. THE FILM PREMIERED AT THE MELBOURNE INTERNATNAL FILM FTIVAL 2015, AND LEAD ACTOR SANCHARI VIJAY EARNED A NATNAL AWARD FOR HIS MOVG PERFORMANCE. 68 PAG DELVG TO THE PAG OF A UNSELOR’S DIARY, THIS 2007 FILM WEAV TOGETHER THE STORI OF FOUR CHARACTERS LIVG WH AIDS — A MUMBAI-BASED SEX WORKER, A TRANSSEXUAL BAR DANCER, AND A GAY UPLE. DIRECTED BY ACCLAIMED FILMMAKER SRIDHAR RANGAYAN, 68 PAG IS A HEARTRENDGLY HONT PORTRAYAL OF THE SHARED PA OF DIVIDUALS MARGALIZED WH INDIAN SOCIETY. MY BROTHER NIKHIL ONIR’S MY BROTHER NIKHIL IS PERHAPS THE SEND MOST WELL-KNOWN INDIAN FILM ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY (AFTER FIRE.) BASED ON THE LIFE OF DOMIC D’SOUZA, THIS FILM IS SET GOA AND FEATUR SANJAY SURI, JUHI CHAWLA, VICTOR BANERJEE, LILETTE DUBEY, AND PURAB KOHLI, AMONG OTHERS. DAAYRA (THE SQUARE CIRCLE) DIRECTED BY AMOL PALEKAR, DAAYRA WAS WRTEN BY AWARD-WNG JOURNALIST AND NOVELIST TIMERI N. MURARI. THIS FILM’S STRENGTH IS S UNIQUE PLOT, WHICH VOLV THE SHARED JOURNEY OF A THEATER ACTOR TRAED TO PLAY FEMALE ROL AND A VILLAGE GIRL FORCED TO DON MASCULE GARB. IT FOLK SONGS TO TAKE THE VIEWER ON AN EMOTNAL VOYAGE THAT WORKS TO TOPPLE GENR STEREOTYP AND SOCIAL ATTUS ABOUT CROSS-DRSG. DID YOU KNOW – CULTURE TRIP NOW DO BOOKABLE, SMALL-GROUP TRIPS? PICK OM THENTIC, IMMERSIVE EPIC TRIPS, PACT AND ACTN-PACKED MI TRIPS AND SPARKLG, EXPANSIVE SAILG TRIPS. VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• BOLLYWOOD RELEAS 'FIRST FILM WH GAY MAN AS LEAD CHARACTER'
• INDIA’S FIRST GAY FILM BADNAM BASTI RURFAC AFTER NEARLY HALF A CENTURY'S HIBERNATN BERL ARCHIVE

8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY

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VAL LGBTQ FILMS FROM ACROSS INDIA MEHAK SIDDIQUI 07 JUNE 2023 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT WHILE INDIAN CEMA GENERAL IS NOTOR FOR S STEREOTYPIL, C AND OFTEN ROGATORY PICTNS OF THE LGBTQ MUNY, SOME FILMMAKERS HAVE BROKEN THIS MOULD TO EXPLORE SEXUALY SENSIVE, RMED WAYS. DEEPA MEHTA’S 1996 FILM FIRE IS PERHAPS THE MOST REVERED OF THE GROUNDBREAKG FILMS, BUT HERE ARE 12 MORE WORTH WATCHG. VIEW ALL TRIPS ALIGARH THIS 2016 FILMEARNED ACLAS FOR S SENSIVE PICTN OF THE NTROVERSIAL REAL-LIFE SE OF THE LATE DR SHRIVAS RAMCHANDRA SIRAS, A FORMER PROFSOR AT ALIGARH MLIM UNIVERSY. DIRECTED BY HANSAL MEHTA OF SHAHID AND CY LIGHTS, THIS FILM FEATUR CREDIBLE ACTORS LIKE MANOJ BAAI AND RAJKUMAR RAO. THE BRISH FILM INSTUTE LLED ALIGARH “PROBABLY THE BT FILM YET ON THE INDIAN GAY MALE EXPERIENCE.” TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP GREECE THAILAND EGYPT MOROC TURKEY SOUTH AI MEXI BALI SPA JAPAN INDIA ECUADOR CROATIA ICELAND SANCHARRAM (THE JOURNEY) THIS 2004 MALAYALAM FEATURE FILM TELLS THE TERFAH LOVE STORY OF KIRAN (PLAYED BY SUHASI V. NAIR) AND DELILAH (PLAYED BY SHTHY MENON). SET RAL KERALA, SANCHARRAM OFFERS AN HONT EXPLORATN OF THE SOCIETAL ATTUS AND FAY DYNAMICS SURROUNDG HOMOSEXUALY. IT WAS DIRECTED BY LIGY J. PULLAPPALLY, WHO WON A SPECIAL JURY AWARD FOR THE FILM AT THE 2004 KERALA STATE FILM AWARDS. AREKTI PREMER GOLPO (JT ANOTHER LOVE STORY) DIRECTED BY KSHIK GANGULY, THIS BENGALI FILM STARS THE LATE RUPARNO GHOSH AND INDRANEIL SENGUPTA LEADG ROL. IT WAS THE FIRST FILM ON HOMOSEXUALY TO BE SHOT AFTER THE IAL CRIMALIZATN OF SECTN 377 OF THE INDIAN PENAL CO THE YEAR 2009. MAJESTIC TURKEY TRAVEL OM THE BAZAARS OF ISTANBUL TO THE BETIFUL BEACH OF ANTALYA. VIEW TRIP TAMANNA (DIRE) FEATURG PARH RAWAL ONE OF HIS MOST ACCLAIMED ROL, THIS FILM WON THE NATNAL AWARD 1998 FOR THE BT FILM ON OTHER SOCIAL ISSU. IT MARKED POOJA BHATT’S BUT AS A PRODUCER AND EVEN FEATURED HER THE TLE ROLE. SOME HAVE CLAIMED THAT THIS FILM IS BASED ON A TE STORY, ALTHOUGH THIS HAS NOT BEEN OFFICIALLY NFIRMED. GULABI AAA (THE PK MIRROR) INDIA‘S FIRST EVER FILM ON DRAG QUEENS HAS ALL THE ENTERTAMENT VALUE OF A BOLLYWOOD FLICK WHILE ALSO OFFERG NDID SIGHTS TO THE LIV OF TRANSSEXUAL DIVIDUALS. UNFORTUNATELY, LIKE MANY FILMS THAT CHALLENGE CULTURAL BOUNDARI INDIA, THIS FILM FTIVAL H WAS BANNED BY THE UNTRY’S BOARD OF FILM CERTIFITN AND WAS ACCED OF BEG “VULGAR AND OFFENSIVE.” NEVERTHELS, THE FILM HAS GARNERED IMMENSE CRIL ACCLAIM AND SUPPORT ACROSS THE GLOBE. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. | © SOLARIS PICTUR DARMIYAAN (IN BETWEEN) SET BOLLYWOOD DURG THE 1940S, THIS POIGNANT DRAMA TELLS THE STORY OF THE NARCISSISTIC FILM STAR ZEENAT BEGUM (PLAYED BY KIRRON KHER) AND HER TRANSGENR SON, IMMI (PLAYED BY ARIF ZAKARIA). THE FILM GARNERED ACCLAIM FOR S RIVETG PORTRAYAL OF THE LIV OF TRANSGENR DIVIDUALS, OR HIJRAS, INDIA. MEGHADHANHYA (THE COLOR OF LIFE) RELEASED 2013, THIS IS THE FIRST GUJARATI FILM ON HOMOSEXUALY AND WAS DIRECTED BY FORMER AYURVEDA PRACTNER K R DEVAMANI. IT IS PARTLY NARRATED BY PRCE MANVENDRA SGH GOHIL, WHO IS WILY KNOWN FOR BEG THE SON AND PROBABLE HEIR OF THE MAHARAJA OF RAIPLA GUJARAT. IN AN TERVIEW WH A GUJARATI NEWS CHANNEL, GOHIL EXPLAED HOW THE FILM IS A BOLD ATTEMPT TO SUBVERT MISNCEPTNS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY AND SHOW THE DISCRIMATN AND STIGMA THAT IS FACED BY THE GAY MUNY. MARGARA WH A STRAW STARRG THE OUTSTANDG KALKI KOECHL AS A PATIENT WH CEREBRAL PALSY, MARGARA WH A STRAW IS AN IMPORTANT FILM BEE OF S SENSIVE EXPLORATNS OF BOTH DISABILY AND FEMALE SEXUALY. SCREENED AT A PLETHORA OF GLOBAL FILM FTIVALS, MARGARA WON SEVERAL AWARDS, CLUDG THE AUDIENCE AWARD AND THE YOUTH JURY AWARD AT THE VOUL FILM FTIVAL FRANCE LAST YEAR. | © VIA 18 MOTN PICTUR NAANU AVANALLA, AVALU THIS KANNADA FEATURE FILM (DIRECTED BY B. S. LGAVA) IS BASED ON THE LIFE OF LIVG SE VIDYA, A TRANSGENR DIVIDUAL WHO GREW UP MALE BUT LATER EMBRACED HER FEME INTY. THE FILM PREMIERED AT THE MELBOURNE INTERNATNAL FILM FTIVAL 2015, AND LEAD ACTOR SANCHARI VIJAY EARNED A NATNAL AWARD FOR HIS MOVG PERFORMANCE. 68 PAG DELVG TO THE PAG OF A UNSELOR’S DIARY, THIS 2007 FILM WEAV TOGETHER THE STORI OF FOUR CHARACTERS LIVG WH AIDS — A MUMBAI-BASED SEX WORKER, A TRANSSEXUAL BAR DANCER, AND A GAY UPLE. DIRECTED BY ACCLAIMED FILMMAKER SRIDHAR RANGAYAN, 68 PAG IS A HEARTRENDGLY HONT PORTRAYAL OF THE SHARED PA OF DIVIDUALS MARGALIZED WH INDIAN SOCIETY. MY BROTHER NIKHIL ONIR’S MY BROTHER NIKHIL IS PERHAPS THE SEND MOST WELL-KNOWN INDIAN FILM ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY (AFTER FIRE.) BASED ON THE LIFE OF DOMIC D’SOUZA, THIS FILM IS SET GOA AND FEATUR SANJAY SURI, JUHI CHAWLA, VICTOR BANERJEE, LILETTE DUBEY, AND PURAB KOHLI, AMONG OTHERS. DAAYRA (THE SQUARE CIRCLE) DIRECTED BY AMOL PALEKAR, DAAYRA WAS WRTEN BY AWARD-WNG JOURNALIST AND NOVELIST TIMERI N. MURARI. THIS FILM’S STRENGTH IS S UNIQUE PLOT, WHICH VOLV THE SHARED JOURNEY OF A THEATER ACTOR TRAED TO PLAY FEMALE ROL AND A VILLAGE GIRL FORCED TO DON MASCULE GARB. IT FOLK SONGS TO TAKE THE VIEWER ON AN EMOTNAL VOYAGE THAT WORKS TO TOPPLE GENR STEREOTYP AND SOCIAL ATTUS ABOUT CROSS-DRSG. DID YOU KNOW – CULTURE TRIP NOW DO BOOKABLE, SMALL-GROUP TRIPS? PICK OM THENTIC, IMMERSIVE EPIC TRIPS, PACT AND ACTN-PACKED MI TRIPS AND SPARKLG, EXPANSIVE SAILG TRIPS. VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

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.

BOLLYWOOD RELEAS 'FIRST FILM WH GAY MAN AS LEAD CHARACTER'

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.

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

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. 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. 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.