Queer Cinema

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

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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