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
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Kotak firm’s Rs 60 crore donation to BJP coincided with crucial RBI decisions on Kotak Mahindra Bank
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Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn
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‘The Goat Life’ review: A protracted saga of suffering and survival
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How the brain’s clock speeds up around middle age can determine future health and dementia
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How the high demand for coaching classes reflects India’s employment and economic distress
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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
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Watch: Footballers give their jackets to young player escorts amidst heavy rain in New York City
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Caught on camera: Supermarket floor collapses, shopper falls through it
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‘Look at my wonderful costume’: Actor Anne Hathaway reacts to scenes from some of her popular movies
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Watch: Chef makes life-sized pencil and sharpener entirely from chocolate
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Watch: Musicians from Kerala perform their version of the iconic 1985 song ‘We Are The World’