Deepa Mehta's "Funny Boy" juxtapos a gay teenage love story wh risg ethnic tensns Sri Lanka for a film that is ultimately about thrivg, or jt survivg, as someone emed “different.”
Contents:
- REVIEW: ‘FUNNY BOY’ IS AN AMB STORY ABOUT GROWG UP GAY AND TA SRI LANKA
- INDIAN CELEBS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY AND PROUD TO BE LGBTQIA+
- 100 YEARS OF TA CEMA: MY SON IS GAY, KOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY FEATURE FILM
- TA DIENCE READY FOR FILM ON GAY RELATNSHIP: 'MY SON IS GAY' DIRECTOR
- TA. BRAHM. IYER. AND GAY.
REVIEW: ‘FUNNY BOY’ IS AN AMB STORY ABOUT GROWG UP GAY AND TA SRI LANKA
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In this gay g-of-age story set durg the lead-up to the Sri Lankan civil war, director Deepa Mehta ambly juxtapos a teenage love story wh risg polil tensns and ethnic vlence a film that is ultimately about thrivg and sometim jt survivg as someone emed “different. And spe beg a crime to be gay Sri Lanka both then and now, Arjie and Shehan’s relatnship shyly but surely ’s both prec and rehg when queer characters g-of-age stori fall love whout havg to overe any ner turmoil over their inti, so Arjie and Shehan’s story is plenty heartwarmg. Dpe beg the 21st century, discsns around the topic of homosexualy tend to be regrsive as many ntue to look at people wh "different" sexual orientatn as a subject of mockery.
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INDIAN CELEBS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY AND PROUD TO BE LGBTQIA+
Intertgly, Apurva Asrani, who is among the few openly gay men the dtry, opened up about his sexual orientatn back 1998.
As per reports, Vasu Primlani is among the first openly gay stand up edian.
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100 YEARS OF TA CEMA: MY SON IS GAY, KOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY FEATURE FILM
In an terview, the Indian novelist and poet had shared how he wish that homosexuals across the untry would be able to be open about their sexualy and e out. Vikram, who openly intifi himself as a bi-sexual, was also ld for his opns on homosexualy Ls.
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.
TA DIENCE READY FOR FILM ON GAY RELATNSHIP: 'MY SON IS GAY' DIRECTOR
” 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.
Lokh Kumar says his film will be an eye-opener on gay relatnships for the Ta dience.
27-year-old filmmaker Lokh Kumar whose Ta film My Son is Gay is all set to release next year, was spired to make the film after attendg the Bangalore Queer Ftival some years ago. 'You don't have to be gay to make a film on gay people' Speakg to TNM, Lokh said that the experience at the Bangalore ft ma him rearch if any Ta film had been ma wh such them. This went on for a few months and I cid to make a film, " he Son is Gay is Lokh's first film.
TA. BRAHM. IYER. AND GAY.
And on hearg the tle, the first thg many people ask is, "Are you also gay? But y, people do ask me if I'm gay.
Notg that very few Ta films have had gay referenc and the fact that none of them has alt wh the issue eply, Lokh says, "Most people have no clue. People thk beg gay and beg transgenr are the same, for example. That's when, Lokh says, he realised that so many different kds of stori uld be told through cema and not jt the regular mercial fare that he was ed to realisatn led him to make short films for a few years before he cid to make a full-length Lokh first cid to make My Son is Gay, his plan was to get done Hdi bee he felt the Ta dience wasn't ready for a film like this.
I'm happy about my film but tomorrow, someone uld e and tell me that I'm tryg to turn people gay through my film or some such thg. So we should be even more rponsible and sensive how we portray them, " he makg of My Son is GayGiven how Kollywood has treated this subjects the past, how difficult was for Lokh, a first-time filmmaker, to nvce experienced actors like Kishore, Jayaprakash, Anupama and Sriranjani, among others, to act the film?