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

· Feb 04, 2019 · 08:15 am

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

· Jan 28, 2019 · 08:15 am

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

· May 27, 2017 · 12:00 pm

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

· May 08, 2016 · 01:30 pm

‘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

· Apr 05, 2016 · 10:00 am

‘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

· Mar 26, 2016 · 11:30 am

Reading between the lyrics of straight love songs

Hindi movie tracks celebrate heterosexual romance, but some of them are ambiguous enough.

Manish Gaekwad

· Feb 27, 2016 · 09:45 am