In the month of September, Bombay Dost Sunday High will bring to you Award Winning and Audience Favourite films from the hugely successful and popular KASHISH – Mumbai International Queer Film Festival 2010.
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Cinema, Politics And Pride [Our World This Week]
Gay movie Dunno Y…Na Jaane Kyun (why must Hindi movie titles include by-lines like this one? Remember Daag-The Fire?) is set to hit screens across the world, including countries like Germany, Australia, Italy and Switzerland. The movie’s already attracted a great deal of interest and is being referred to as India’s answer to Brokeback Mountain.
The GayBombay Film Festival
A film by Harish Iyer, or Aham. Its a courageous film that takes on the issue of child sex abuse and how queer kids get specially signalled out for this (they do NOT turn out queer because of the abuse – that’s a lie spread by homophobes which is one of the most vicious aspects of child sex abuse).
Movie Review : Amen
Harish Iyer invited me to a private screening of the short film ‘AMEN’ based in part, on his life. My first question was to ask if I should dress up. He said, “No yaar, I’ll be there in my regular jeans and all.” Thank goodness for me then, that I’ve met Harish before and I know what his idea of ‘regular jeans’ is. Never trust a gay man who says he isn’t dressing up!
Movie Review : Sancharram
Sancharram (meaning “the journey”) is a 2004 movie that is perhaps the first of its kind. One might say that “Fire” was the first Indian movie to deal with sapphism, but in the movie the sisters-in-law were pushed into a lesbian relationship more out of loneliness than anything else.
Film Review Journey Of Dreams : Awesome
A couple weeks back I attended a movie screening by QWOCMAP/Asian & Pacific Islander Cultural Center. It was a couple of shorts may be lasting to an hour or so portraying introductory or repeated attempts by Queer Women. These…
DesiGirls! – Documentary by Ishita Films
I hope you’ll take 20 minutes to watch this documentary, DESIGIRLS!, by Ishita Films. It’s certainly engaging & left me wishing there was more than just 20 minutes to this documentary.
Watching people come out of…
Kashish And Me
Maybe someday, queer films will run in mainstream cinemas with mainstream audiences and the reaction would be the same.
Kashish 2010 : Through The Lens Of A Not-So-Queer Viewer
Being arguably one of the largest such film festival to be held in our country, Kashish 2010 brought together Mumbai’s queer diaspora in a way hardly any other event has, before. From fashionistas and Page 3 celebs, to collegians and student filmmakers, they were all there and they all made their presence felt.
Film Review Were The World Mine: Flawed Yet A Must Watch
Director Tom Gustafson’s take on queer centric issues, stereotypes, homophobia, coming out, social justice and acceptance is pleasing & still relevant in today’s time.
Event Review Kashish 2010: A Queer Experience
I have never been a fan of film festivals. I find them overcrowded and overrated. But I was willing to make an exception for ‘Kashish’ – I am willing to make an exception for anything queer.
Film Review The World Unseen: Filmy, Very Filmy
Directed by Shamim Sarif, The World Unseen, to many may not strike as anything extraordinary.
Kashish 2010 Mumbai International Queer Film (Registration, Venue & Schedule)
Only a week or so to go for Mumbai’s biggest and definitely happening Queer Film Festival.
Those interested in attending, please do get yourself registered as delegate in order to avoid last minute chaos.
Kashish 2010
Solaris Pictures & Bombay Dost presents Kashish – Mumbai International Queer Film Festival to be held between April 22 – April 25, 2010 in Mumbai.
It takes the journey of the Indian Queer Movement further through the medium…
Bollywood’s First Bisexual
In the previous post our spunky reader, DK complained – lekin kab do kudiyon ko leke kuch banayengey?? – and holy cow her wish just got answered.
From the land of desi jhatkas matkas comes our very own…
Review Short Film Fest : Queer Nazaria
[Guest Author : Sophie Parisse]
Queer Nazaria, the event was well attended (more than houseful, roughly about 90 to 100 people), by a mixed crowd, ranging from individuals of our very own LGBT community and visiting LGBT individuals from Singapore…
Film Review I Can’t Think Straight: A Decent Watch
[Guest Author : DeepSeas]
I can’t think Straight was a much awaited movie – not the least because of its sexy trailers of the romantic scenes between Lisa Ray and Sheetal Sheth. It is based on the novel by the…
Queer Nazaria
As part of the pre-march celebrations the awesome folks behind the Queer Azaadi Mumbai March (to be held on 16th August) have organized a film program, appropriately titled – Queer Nazaria.
The film program takes us to different parts of
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