Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterWe recently listed our TOP INDIAN QUEER MOVIES and now there may be a new addition to this . Only a few months after India finally legalized homosexuality, the first mainstream Indian film to focus on a same-sex relationship has just opened to wide acclaim (the trailer below has 21 million hits already). Ek Ladki … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe timing could not be more perfect for the screening of Indian filmmaker Sridhar Rangayan’s beautifully nuanced family drama coming so soon after his country’s Supreme Court finally legalizing homosexuality. Being gay waa always taboo in India but never a crime in itself, but the sexual act between two men was. This is the story of Kartik … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis very prestigious all-boys boarding school in India which is the setting for The Noblemen is obviously a remnant of British colonial days and the children are still expected to practice the age-old rituals and codes which should have been banished years ago. Here in this very formal setting, the pupils are reluctantly bound by an … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesYou need to adopt an Indian sensibility and momentarily put aside your usual Western discernment when you view the second feature film of New York based writer/director Jayan Cherian which has so outraged the Indian Film Censors that they have banned it from being played in the country. What has caused them so much offense … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe fact that it is still illegal to be gay in India doesn’t in anyway diminish the presence of a significant LGBT population, it simply means that they must furtively live their lives in the shadows. Therefore creating any sort of art/culture for the community comes with great risks for all those concerned, but nevertheless that … Continue reading
