Queer Cinema
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Film flashback: ‘Fire’ was the first Indian film to bring women in love out of the shadows
Before ‘Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga’, Deepa Mehta’s ‘Fire’ explored the love between two women.
Shohini Ghosh
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How the Oscar-nominated comedy ‘The Favourite’ puts lesbianism at the centre stage
Yorgos Lanthimos’s period drama about Queen Anne has been nominated for 10 Oscars, including for Best Actress for Olivia Colman.
Mary Harrod, The Conversation
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In ‘Signature Move’ film, queer identity, wrestling, secrets and Shabana Azmi for a mother
Actor and writer Fawzia Mirza stars alongside the thespian in the inaugural film at the Kashish queer festival in Mumbai.
Sruthi Ganapathy Raman
Trending
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Over 17,400 citizens write to EC seeking action against PM Narendra Modi for hate speech
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Australian journalist leaves country amid visa troubles, says ‘too difficult to do my job in India’
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Dubai: How a high-altitude jet stream, not cloud seeding, created a storm ‘the size of France’
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The Jammu and Kashmir voter who is fighting corruption in job recruitments
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Mine but not really mine: Why ‘owning’ digital items doesn’t feel the same
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The debate over whether Elsa from ‘Frozen’ is gay is far more complex than we realise
The campaign to introduce queer characters in Disney films is a microcosm of the greater churn convulsing Hollywood.
Vikram Johri
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‘Desert Hearts’, the 1985 film about lesbian awakening that gives ‘Carol’ a run for its money
Director Donna Deitch wanted to make a movie ‘that didn’t end in a suicide or two suicides or a bisexual triangle’.
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, The Conversation
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‘Kapoor & Sons’, ‘Aligarh’ and the debt they owe to ‘Fire’
Twenty years after Deepa Mehta’s seminal movie, Bollywood is finally, but gingerly, making gay men protagonists.
Vikram Johri
Video
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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Eco India: How can India deal with its mounting tyre waste?
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Eco India, Episode 258: Is repurposing waste saving the environment from further degradation?