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Contents:

• 100 YEARS OF TA CEMA: MY SON IS GAY, KOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY FEATURE FILM
• TA. BRAHM. IYER. AND GAY.
• INDIAN CELEBS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY AND PROUD TO BE LGBTQIA+
• 8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY
• WHO ALL ARE GAY THE TA FILM DTRY?
• GAY ACTORS
• GAY ACTORS

100 YEARS OF TA CEMA: MY SON IS GAY, KOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY FEATURE FILM

More recently, Hansal Mehta was cricised for not stg a gay person his segment for Morn Love-Mumbai. Ranveer Brar and Pratik Gandhi play gay lovers Hansal Mehta’s Baai, Morn Love MumbaiKubbra Sa, who played the popular trans character Koo Sacred Gam, shar: “No one I’ve met a closed room has ever said, we don’t want to st a member of the LGBTQIA+ muny or a trans person, specific.

“Castg is an important aspect of a film and we mt be more tthful to the character’s needs than the actor’s opportuny, ” he argu, potg out how the furore over stg Vijay Raaz was eventually bowed out to the applse that followed his stellar turn as Raziabai language of queer timacyOnir’s My Brother Nikhil, starrg Juhi Chawla and Sanjay Suri, was one of the first films mastream Indian cema to talk about homosexualyThe stg challenge is pound when to the portrayal of gay characters by straight and male actors specifilly, as filmmaker Onir explaed an terview to this publitn earlier.

TA. BRAHM. IYER. AND GAY.

They have no qualms about playg a rapist but playg a gay man onscreen is an issue for many... ” This lack of onscreen timacy has impacted the way queer relatnships are picted, he argued, addg: “Gay rol have been sanised bee not many actors are fortable dog that.

Konkona plays a dal lbian the filmAyhmann Khurrana and Jendra Kumar play gay partners Shubh Mangal Zyada SaavdhanRajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar a still om Badhaai Do. Which is why filmmakers turn to acplished actors, such as Konkona Sen Sharma (Geeli Pucchi), Ayhmann Khurrana and Jendra Sharma (Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan), Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar (Badhaai Do), to make a nvcg films about queer box-office impact on stgFawad Khan played a gay character, Rahul, Kapoor and SonsFor trans actors, the roadblock to more opportuni is also a functn of the box-office dynamics. Vijay Raaz playg a trans character or Ayhmann playg a gay character may not transcend the social dilemmas associated wh the LGBTQIA+ muny, but such films have created a space to battle homophobia, which is rampant.

INDIAN CELEBS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY AND PROUD TO BE LGBTQIA+

But this year, get ready to wns somethg different- A feature movie on the story of a gay man and the impact on his relatnship wh his mother starrg Anupama Kumar, V Jayaprakash, Kishore, Ashwjh, Abishek Joseph Gee & Sriranji LGBTQIA issu are que sensive India and cema plays a major role highlightg such issu. And for the first time Kollywood history, a gay feature movie is all set to release this year. Directed by Lokh Kumar, My Son is Gay (En Magan Magizhvan Ta) is a story of love, acceptance & tolerance.

8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY

” A still om My Son is Gay, starrg Anupama Kumar What’s more tertg is that the film was shot jt 26 days at a stretch March 2016 and the actors worked pro bono. And Gay. In the followg terview, Shadri unpacks some of those emotns, nversatns, and lsons om his journey of g out as gay the Indian- Amerin muny that still stggl wh the LGBTQ orientatns.

WHO ALL ARE GAY THE TA FILM DTRY?

Even 2022 and even fewer South Asians who have e out as gay. I didn’t know for sure if I was gay or if was a phase or if I was feelg this way bee I hadn’t found someone. It’s a lot easier to tell people of your own generatn as they unrstand what the ncept of the word “gay” is.

I also uldn’t give them any exampl India bee homosexualy is still very much a taboo. We don’t have a party for g out as straight, so we don’t need to for g out as gay or lbian or belongg to the LGTBQ fay. We need to acknowledge that and set the nversatn rrectly—whether ’s about beg gay or about reer, divorce, not havg children, and so on.

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When to Telugu cema particular, om the ‘madas’ of the 70s and 80s to Ali’s Lachmi Chitha, a character Gun Jaari Gallanthay, a particular track volvg Nani Ala Modaladi to even the more recent @Nartanasala featurg Naga Shrya, the portrayal of gay characters (sometim even nfed and termixed wh transpersons and hijras) has been pla regrsive and even outright homophobic. Take a look at five such films to bge watch this Pri Month: Awe Director: Prasanth Varma Cast: Kajal Aggarwal, Srivas Avasarala, Nhya Menen, Eha Rebba, Murli Sharma, Priyadarshi, Devadarshi, Nani, Ravi Teja Language: Telugu Awe beme the first Telugu film recent tim to not jt touch on the topics of sexualy, genr, child abe, mental health and more, also beme the one to treat s homosexual characters wh digny and rpect.

The film is worth watchg bee of s portrayal of the ner trma of a Magan Magizhvan/My Son is Gay Director: Lokh Kumar Cast: Anupama Kumar, Ashwjh, Abhisek Joseph Gee Language: Ta Kollywood’s first feature film that picts an LGBTQ love story crossed numero hurdl jt to get ma, My Son is Gay tells the story of Van, played by Ashwjh, who out to his mother, played by Anupama. My Son is Gay is also touted as one of the few films that show the most believable on-screen portrayals of a gay relatnship. Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy criziced for not stg Tas lead rolDeepa Mehta is the centre of ntroversy aga wh her new film about a Ta boy's g-out, where few Tas were st the primary Amy Award nomee Deepa Mehta's adaptatn of Funny Boy — the much-ld story about a gay young man g of age before and durg the Sri Lankan civil war — was announced as Canada's submissn for the Osr's bt ternatnal film tegory, was e for, only weeks after that announcement, some groups om the Ta diaspora are llg for a boytt.

"Funny Boy, adapted om the novel of the same name by Sri Lankan-born Canadian Shyam Selvadurai, follows the story of Arjun (Arjie) Chelvaratnam, a young gay man growg up Sri Lanka durg the Ta-Shale nflict of the 1970s and after the book's release 1994, gaed inic stat for s reprentatn of the queer Ta muny. ""This film uld have been our Moonlight, " Vykunthanathan said, referencg the 2017 Osrs bt picture wner about a young, gay Black man growg up Miami.

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"What is important was that we get an Arjie who was gay.

Selvadurai, who has mixed Ta/Shale herage, said the fact the role of Arjie is beg played by an openly gay Sri Lankan was always one of the most important thgs for him, and he's flattered that so many re so much about the story at all. "The film's lead role was eventually given to Brandon Ingram, a theatre actor Sri Lanka who had recently e out as gay — somethg Mehta says she found pecially imprsive as Sri Lanka currently crimaliz same-sex choice was ma, Mehta said, after lookg for Ta actors for the role around the world — om England to New York to Toronto to Sri Lanka.