Indian
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Sisak : a touching silent queer Indian love story
The 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…
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Parched
Leena Yadav‘s contemporary tale of village life in rural India told from the perspective of four women : three close friends in their mid 30’s and one new bride, starts off by being sufficiently harrowing to shock western audiences and then it gradually tapers to end on a more rosier note less we should think…
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Margarita, With A Straw
Laila may be wheelchair bound because she has cerebral palsy, but it hardly seems an obstacle to stop this young student at the University of Delhi from doing exactly what she wants to do. Encouraged by her middle-class parents, she never lets her disability stop her getting exactly what she wants in life. That is until…
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Loev : a gay Indian love story
This rather touching and gentle gay drama which is a very impressive debut from newbie filmmaker Sudanashu Saria, takes on an even greater than usual resonance by the mere fact that it is set in India where homosexuality was still illegal at the time. However in fact the movie, evidently shot very much on the down-low,…
