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1. Fire India/Canada (1996)
Director: Deepa Mehta
Cast: Shabana azmi & Nandita Das
Plot: Ashok runs a family business that sells takeout food that also has a video rental store at the side. Ashok's extended family includes his wife Radha, his brother Jatin, their ailing mother Biji and their manservant Mundu, all living under the same roof. Jatin, at the insistence of Ashok and their mother, Biji, agrees to marry the beautiful Sita in an arranged marriage, although he is actually in love with Julie, a Chinese-Indian. At first glance, you see a happy middle-class family going through the normal paces of everyday life. However, as the layers are slowly peeled back, we find a simmering cauldron of discontent within the family, with almost every family member living a lie. Both marriages in the family turn out to be emotionally empty, without love or passion. While Ashok is an ascetic who has taken a vow of celibacy, Jatin is a handsome ladies' man who is still openly seeing Julie even after his marriage to Sita. Ashok has pledged his total devotion to a religious holy man, a swami, in order to purge his life of worldly desires and temptations. Radha, bound by her sense of duty to her husband, agrees to go along with his wishes. As you can imagine, with both husbands ignoring their spouses' emotional and sexual needs (albeit with reasons that are totally opposite from each other), it is only a matter of time before Radha and Sita look to one another for comfort and to satisfy their own passions. In this environment, it is only natural that Sita and Radha become fast friends, and, in time, much more than that. But their love is not without its share of painful obstacles.
2. Bombay Boys, India (1998)
Director: Kaizad Gustad
Cast: Naveen Andrews
Plot: Krishna alias Kris Sahani lives in New York, U.S., but decides to travel to his homeland in order to act in a movie. While Ricardo Fernandes leaves Sydney, Australia to travel to Bombay in search of his missing brother, Roger. And finally, Zeres Mistry, from London, England, also travels to Bombay to find his true love. The paths of all three Non-resident Indians cross in the taxi ride to Colaba, and they decide to stick together in their search for an apartment. They do succeed in finding one, owned by a seemingly gay landlord, Pesi Shroff, who openly and lovingly eyes a visibly uncomfortable Zeres. Things do not go well for Kris as well as he is asked by Filmmaker, Don Mastana, to act in a movie that is slated to be the worst movie in Bollywood history. Ricardo finds himself at the mercy of the local police, who make it clear to him that they have better things to do than look for his missing brother. It is only a matter of time before the hapless trio to realize that their respective hopes, dreams and aspirations are soon to turn to hopelessness and nightmares - from which there is no escape.
3. Sum Total, India/US (1999)
Director: Sonali Gulati
Plot: What does an Indian lesbian do when her parents want to marry her to an unknown man?
4. Barefeet India/US (2000)
Director: Sonali Gulati
Plot: An Indian lesbian attempts to come out to her family but she is unable to do so.
5. Adhura (incomplete), English/Hindi
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6. Mango Soufflé , India (2002)
Director: Mahesh Dattani
Cast: Rinke kanna
7. Gulabi Aaina (The Pink Mirror), India (2003)
Director: Shridhar Rangayan
Cast: Edwin Fernandis, Ramesh Menon
Plot: The Pink Mirror pits two Indian drag queens against a westernized gay teenager in a battle to woo a handsome hunk. It's a clash of the east and west. Who will win? The drag queens, who are expert in the art of seduction with their wit, innuendo and cunning or the young teenager who is saucy, slutty and sly? Underneath the campy humorous exterior, the film is an exploration of the Indian gay landscape and understanding of the deep, humanly tender bondings that exist between drag queens in India who form unique, non-patriarchal families. Using the Bollywood soap idiom of song, dance and drama and for the first time in the Indian drag queens' very own language, Hindi, the film also explores other veiled issues related to the Indian gay community: the lurking threat of HIV/AIDS.
8. Girlfriend, India (2004)
Director: Karan Razdan
Cast: Isha Koppikar, Amrita Arora
Plot: 'Girlfriend' is a story about two intimate friends Tanya and Sapna who have always been together since they were in college. Now they live together and each one of them is fond of the other, to that extent that if one does something, the other follows. Sapna meets Rahul when Tanya is out of town for some work. Sapna finds herself in a relationship with Rahul and by the time Tanya is back, Sapna has already fallen for Rahul and starts loving him. When Tanya learns of this relationship, she is jealous and reacts very adversely and in her jealousy and possessiveness comes out when she meets Rahul. Now Tanya goes all out to break Sapna's relationship with Rahul and her hidden agenda and desires come to light in the later part of the film.
9. My Brother Nikhil, India (2005)
Director: Onir
Cast: Sanjay Suri & Purab Kohli
Plot: My Brother… Nikhil is a 2005 Indian film set in Goa. The movie portrays the life of the protagonist, Nikhil, from 1987 to 1994, when AIDS awareness in India was considerably low. Nikhil does not tell the story directly; the story is told to the viewer through the experiences and from the points of view of Nikhil's father, mother, boyfriend, lawyer, and his sister.
10. Navarasa, India (2005)
Director: Santosh Sivan
Cast: Bobby Darling
Plot: Swetha, 13, discovers that her uncle Gautham dresses as a woman once night has fallen. Intrigued, she asks him about him, and he confesses her that his dream would be to escape to Koovagam, a little city in the South of India, where transvestites gather to perpetuate the myth of Aravan. Once he disappears, Swetha goes after him, without warning her parents...
11. Quest (Thaang), India (2006)
Director: Amol Palekar
Cast: Mukta barve
12. Yours Emotionally, UK/India (2006)
Director: Shridhar Rangayan
Cast: Premjit, Jack lampert
Plot: Ravi & Paul, two friends from Leicester, end up attending a gay party in the small Indian town of Shimoga, upon an invitation of Ravi's Parsee email-pal Jeh from Mumbai. A genteel dreamer Ravi instantly falls in love with Mani - a dark & handsome local working man. Ravi and Paul also meet an older male couple, Murthy & Anna, now in their sixties. Murthy has lived in the UK to avoid marriage. When he returns to attend his mother's funeral, his lover Anna (a married man by then) convinces him to stay back. After his wife's death, Anna decides to join Murthy & they run a hotel. Both Ravi & Paul are surprised to meet the older same-sex couple. Although Ravi can't let go of his newfound love, Mani cannot overcome the vast gap that exists between them. Mani is under constant pressure to get married to a woman. When Ravi asks Mani to accompany him to UK, Mani shows very little willingness. Ravi seeks Murthy & Anna's help, but the couple hide behind words of wisdom and express inability to bring Ravi & Mani together. Tension brews between Ravi & Paul due to sexually charged Mani and the situation highlights some nasty cracks in their friendship... Mani throws in a surprise at the farewell meeting that Ravi's asked for... Interspersed with flashes of semi-surreal situations - presented through exciting dream sequences - Yours Emotionally ! unfolds a brightly painted canvas that explores contrasting values within Indian & Western gay sub-cultures.
13. Men Not Allowed, India (2006)
Director: Shrey shrivastava
Cast: Payal Rohatgi, Tina Mazumdar
14. I Can't Think Straight, India (2007)
Director: Shamim Sarif
Cast: Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth
Plot: In the upper echelons of traditional Middle Eastern society, Reema and Omar prepare for the marriage of their daughter Tala. But back at work in London, Tala encounters Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating Tala's best friend Ali. Tala sees something unique in the artless, clumsy, sensitive Leyla who secretly works to become a writer. And Tala's forthright challenges to Leyla's beliefs begins a journey of self-awareness for Leyla. As the women fall in love, Tala's own sense of duty and cultural restraint cause her to pull away from Leyla and fly back to Jordan where the preparations for an ostentatious wedding are well under way. As family members descend and the wedding day approaches, the pressure mounts until Tala finally cracks and extricates herself. Back in London, Leyla is heartbroken but learns to break free of her own self-doubt and her mother's expectations, ditching Ali and being honest with her parents about her sexuality. When Ali and Leyla's feisty sister Zara help throw Tala and Leyla together again, Tala finds that her own preconceptions of what love can be is the final hurdle she must jump to win Leyla back
15. The World Unseen, India (2007)
Director: Shamim Sharif
Cast: Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth
Plot: In the pressure cooker of apartheid South Africa, two women meet and their worlds are turned upside down. Miriam is a traditional Indian mother - hardworking and self-effacing. Amina breaks all the rules by driving a taxi and setting up a cafe with a local black man. In the face of outraged disapproval, their friendship flourishes. But the price, for Miriam, is the discovery of impossible truths about her marriage. In a system that divides white from black, black from Asian and the women from men, what chance is there for an unexpected love to survive?
16. 68 Pages, India (2007)
Director: Shridhar Rangayan
Cast: Joy Sengupta, Uday Sonaware
Plot: Coming from a country like India that is still in denial, where being HIV+ is still a curse, '68 Pages' rips open the underbelly of its society to reveal how it stigmatizes and shuns those who are HIV+ or even those who just want to be what they are. Through 68 Pages of a counselors diary, we see the stories of Paayal, a sex worker; Nishit, an ID user; Kiran, a gay man and Umrao, a transsexual bar dancer - their stories of pain and fear, humiliation and rejection - not only by the society, but even by their loved ones. While these stories expose the shallowness of the system, it also offers hope and healing by trying to bring about a better understanding of their fight to live with dignity. The film is a tribute to the human spirit of optimism and survival.
#Upcoming Movies
1. Pankh, India (2007)
Director: Sudipto Chattopadhyay
Cast: Maradona Rebello
Plot: The film is the story of the repercussions that have happened to a boy - a child artist who once played girl roles in films as Baby Kusum - once he becomes an adult and wants to be launched as a hero. Baby Kusum is a child star, a cute little girl. In reality, Baby Kusum is boy, masquerading as a girl. He was christened Jerry, and then named Master Jai for the movies. He and his mother Mary (Lilette) share a turbulent relationship. The boy’s family is poor and they want to make it big. The pressure of parents and ridicule make it a very sad situation for him. He becomes a drug-abuser who has never been to school and spends all his time at home. Eventually he creates an imaginary character he is in love with, & that imaginary character happens to be Bipasha who taunts him and fights with him, an alter ego who questions his every move. Jerry is made to face the camera again as a young man, which leads to the final catastrophe. The film highlights the common practice in the Indian film industry of casting children in role contrary to their natural genders, there screen.
2. Omar (I Am), India (2007)
Director: Onir
Cast: Rahul Bose, Abhimanyu Singh & Arjun Mathur.
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These days, many young people are choosing celibacy over intercourse. On this episode of True Life, we follow three individuals who are struggling with their decision to remain celibate. Each have previously had sex, which makes it even harder for them to battle temptation.
Meet Troy: he's 19, a baseball team captain, SGA president and a model. He's a true all-American boy. At one point in his life, Troy had no problem with one-night stands and random hookups until he was involved in a terrible car accident, which led him to find religion. He now uses the Bible as a blueprint for living his life and has decided he'll wait until marriage to have sex again.
As a model, Troy battles tempting thoughts daily, especially during photo shoots. While provocatively posing in awkward positions with members of the opposite sex, his beliefs are heavily tested, but he is determined to stay celibate. One day, a girl named Holly catches Troy's eye during a photo shoot and he invites her to party with him and his friends later that night. Their time together seems to be going well until Holly's provocative dancing tempts Troy and he exits the club earlier than expected. Subsequently, Troy decides he shouldn't hang out with Holly anymore.
For spring break, Troy and his friends head to Panama City, Florida, to let loose. The only problem is, Troy can't participate in all the spring break debauchery without feeling slightly uncomfortable, but he attempts to remain levelheaded during the trip. While walking on the beach, the fellas run into a few ladies and invite them to a club, where Troy is straddled by one of the girls and given the lap dance of his life. Although it has become much easier for him to resist temptation, this situation is tough for Troy and he leaves the club before things get out of hand.
Troy reminds himself that God's acceptance is more important than peer acceptance and he remains comfortable in his decision to avoid sex and stay celibate. He feels his spring break lap dance was the ultimate test, and he passed. After five months, Troy is still celibate and plans to publicly speak out against premarital sex in the future.
Next, we meet 19-year-old Kristin, a serial dater. In the past, she has always cheated on her boyfriends, but now she's decided she can't have sex until she knows she can be faithful. Her decision to remain celibate has shocked her friends and ex-lovers and she has a very small support system. However, she has an understanding new boyfriend named Jim who says he will remain by her side no matter what.
Although Kristin hopes to remain faithful to her new boyfriend, she is tested at every turn at her job. As a waitress at a local bar, she deals with tons of flirtatious men. At times, the sexually charged atmosphere causes Kristin to question her decision to stay celibate. But whenever she feels as though she won't make it through the day, she thinks of Jim and pushes through.
One night, Kristin attends a party with Donnie, a guy she cheated on her former boyfriend with. The flirting between the two escalates, but Kristin wisely leaves before she regrets making any bad decisions. Between work and the company she keeps, Kristin wonders if she needs to rethink her celibacy.
Aside from temptation, Kristin's choice to stay celibate is made even more difficult by the fact that Jim lives four hours away. Their relationship is strained due to the distance and she often wonders if he is cheating on her. Lately, she says, his phone calls have been short and he visits less and less. After not hearing from Jim for awhile, Kristin calls and questions him about whether he is cheating. But Jim doesn't have a good excuse for his behavior, so Kristin breaks up with him.
Kristin's convinced Jim has found another girl that is willing to sleep with him and she naturally feels hurt. But Kristin's close friend reminds her that she doesn't have to put out in order for a guy to like her. That's when Kristin finally realizes that truly worthy guys will stick around and respect her decisions and love her no matter what.
For Kristin, the single life may seem challenging but she's ready to face whatever comes her way. She is confident in her choice to remain celibate and will let no man alter her path until they are seriously committed.
Finally, we meet 22-year-old Carlos and his girlfriend Alissa, who have been dating for two years. Carlos and Alissa used to have sex all the time, but now the dynamic has drastically changed because Alissa had an affair. Since then, Carlos has had a problem trusting Alissa and can't stop thinking about the affair. But mainly, Carlos is fearful of catching an STD from Alissa. Because of that, he has decided to be celibate until he can fully trust Alissa again. This decision not only affects Carlos but it also affects Alissa and their relationship as a whole.
With his newfound paranoia about STDs and his increasing jealousy, he and Alissa both question the future of their relationship. After many arguments and accusations, they decide to get tested so they can settle things once and for all. But on the day they're supposed to get tested, Alissa says she doesn't think the results will change anything. At this point, Alissa feels that, no matter what, Carlos will still be haunted by thoughts of her affair. But the two push forward and get tested anyway.
When they both find out they are STD free, Carlos is relieved, to say the least. But when Alissa tries to entice him into having sex with her, he still feels uncomfortable.
After six months of celibacy, Carlos still isn't ready to move forward and be intimate with Alissa. He feels Alissa's cheating has significantly hindered their relationship and corrupted the closeness they once had. He says one day he will once again be comfortable with having sex with Alissa, but right now he just wants to focus on sharing an intimacy beyond the physical meaning. So, for now, they remain celibate.
