A foot-tapping sequin-doused disco number, a hot-pink wedding, and a kiss between the two male leads: Bollywood’s latest release, billed as India’s first gay romcom, is making no bones about its subject matter.
India’s Supreme Court scrapped a colonial-era ban on homosexuality in 2018. But the LGBT community remains on the fringes of society — many face discrimination or even violence, including at the hands of their own families, and their stories are rarely celebrated in mainstream cinema.A trailer for the film shows Khurrana sporting a rainbow cape and armed with a megaphone as he announces to anyone listening that his lover’s father suffers from “a disease with no cure”: homophobia.
The movie is a follow-up of sorts to 2017’s “Shubh Mangal Saavdhan” — a sleeper hit written by Kewalya that won Khurrana praise for his portrayal of a man dealing with erectile dysfunction. Bhushan Kumar, T-Series’ chairman and managing director, told AFP the company had no hesitation in backing the project.
Bollywood does not have a good track record when it comes to portraying the LGBT community. But a handful of films have dealt with the subject sensitively, such as “My Brother Nikhil”, “Kapoor and Sons”, and “Aligarh”.
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