Badhaai Do director on Rajkummar Rao playg a gay police officer: ‘It is not easy for a p to be queer’ | Bollywood News - The Indian Exprs

Contents:

• KOIMOI REMENDS MUMBAI POLICE (LOCKDOWN WATCH): WHEN PRHVIRAJ SUMARAN SHATTERED THE STEREOTYPE & PLAYED A GAY HERO SEVEN YEARS AGO
• PRHVIRAJ: I HAD NO QUALMS PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER
• HERE'S HOW THE MUMBAI POLICE DELIVERED JTICE TO A GAY MAN WHO WAS ASSLTED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
• NIHAL PILLAI: GAY FRIEND
• BADHAAI DO DIRECTOR ON RAJKUMMAR RAO PLAYG A GAY POLICE OFFICER: ‘IT IS NOT EASY FOR A P TO BE QUEER’
• MUMBAI: MAN, WHO ALLEGEDLY HARASSED AND EXTORTED GAY MAN, STABBED TO ATH

KOIMOI REMENDS MUMBAI POLICE (LOCKDOWN WATCH): WHEN PRHVIRAJ SUMARAN SHATTERED THE STEREOTYPE & PLAYED A GAY HERO SEVEN YEARS AGO

Nihal Pillai, who played a homophile the movie, says was ed a challenge to make the character stand out The succs of Mumbai Police has troduced another new face to Mollywood, Nihal Pillai. While many would thk twice before playg a homophile, that too a Malayalam film, Nihal says, “The hibns might apply for tablished actors but bee I’m relatively a newer, I had nothg to lose and that’s one of the major reasons I took up the role.

PRHVIRAJ: I HAD NO QUALMS PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER

“The director told me that they didn’t want a typil Chandupottu character but someone who was gay and there wasn’t many reference Indian cema for this.

Koimoi Remends Mumbai Police (Lockdown Watch): When Prhviraj Sumaran Shattered The Stereotype & Played A Gay Hero Seven Years Ago. While Ayhmann Khurrana, Arjun Mathur and others are still qutned on their choic to play gay characters 2020, Malayalam film Mumbai Police starred Prhviraj Sumaran as an unapologetic gay police officer 7 years ago.

This fire-sptg, always angry and machoism embodied man is gay. But what is, is a brave step terms of acceptg one’s s*xual orientatn and tg people about the stereotypil gay men that we have been shown.

HERE'S HOW THE MUMBAI POLICE DELIVERED JTICE TO A GAY MAN WHO WAS ASSLTED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT

The fact that addrs homophobia is universal and we still have a long journey.

There is a certa way gay men are portrayed, and ’s majorly appropriate. Mumbai Police turns the world upsi down as shows the ‘manlit’ man beg homosexual. The moment when the memory erased Antony realis that he is gay, he breaks down.

Now, this scene created a bate that he regrets him beg homosexual, which is sultg the muny. Through years there have been many classic films that addrsed homophobia and gave strength to the LGBTQ+ muny. Vijay G KochiPrhviraj, who played a gay p the recently released Mumbai Police, didn't face any problems sayg the role.

NIHAL PILLAI: GAY FRIEND

transsexuals, transgenrs and homosexuals.

exceptn to this homophobia. The pictn of homosexualy Malayalam cema has always been.

However homosexualy is jt an unr-current the film.

BADHAAI DO DIRECTOR ON RAJKUMMAR RAO PLAYG A GAY POLICE OFFICER: ‘IT IS NOT EASY FOR A P TO BE QUEER’

sr of non-straight potential homosexual poss. impossible to have a 'public queer' movie a homophobic society like.

secretly gay, and had a seemgly sexual relatnship wh another gay. bee of the reason that the tth about his sexualy (gay. Malayalam cema has never before portrayed a hero as gay.

So a gay character is.

MUMBAI: MAN, WHO ALLEGEDLY HARASSED AND EXTORTED GAY MAN, STABBED TO ATH

7 years of 'Mumbai Police': When Prhviraj-Rosshan Andrrews bo ma Indian cema's first gay hero. Related PapersThis rearch is an attempt to study the rendn of homosexual characters Bollywood, particularly after the readg down of Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co 2009.

The rearch was rried out bearg md the nservative Indian attus towards homosexualy, as well as the accepted beliefs of ‘heteronormativy’ the Indian culture. However, a select few still rema the shadows, severely misreprented reel life; among the are homosexuals.

Homosexualy is a crimal offence India, as dictated by Sectn 377, spe there beg 2. 5 ln ‘self-clared’ gay cizens.