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Before Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan, we have had queer characters that have touched hearts and ma thk. (By and large, the rabow is missg cema, but still the recent spike LGBTQ films is a wele change). Here's a list of gay/lbian movi that you ought to see if you haven't already.

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

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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. Lakshmi disvers her son Van is gay, the fact she uld never accept, chang her whole life upsi down.

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.

KASHISH 2020 TO SCREEN INDIA'S FIRST GAY FILM 'BADNAM BASTI', LOST AND FOUND AFTER 49 YEARS

Here are the top bt LGBTQ+ movi edy, drama, romance, and more genr. Foreign language gay films are on this list as well. * bollywood movies on gay *

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. 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.

A gay, lguistic profsor livg a small orthodox cy mt al wh the aftermath of a stg operatn that puts his sexual orientatn ont of the entire natn. The story tak another turn when Rahul’s mother Suna Kapoor (Rathna Pathak Shah) breaks down disverg that her 'perfect' son is gay. Not once the movie, they mentn the word ‘gay’ or is openly pictg g out story.

Unbothered by the societal norms and stereotyp, Avash tak a h start life and secur an ternship a popular magaze and gets close to a lleague named Gayatri (Rani Merji).

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