Music Video Review: “Nothing For Our Own” By Hanita Bhambri
How many times in your life do you fall in love with someone? How many times is it reciprocated? Does the reciprocation look similar to your expectations?
Archive for the category Reviews
Reviews of Queer films, books, events and everything else under the colorful rainbow
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Book Review: The Summer of Jordi Perez (And the Best Burger in Los Angeles)
The thing that I liked the most about the book from the very beginning was how naturally it flows and how real the characters are.
Book Review: “A Gift of Goddess Lakshmi – A Candid Biography of India’s First Transgender Principal” By Manobi Bandhopadhyay with Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey
Manobi, like most trans persons, has lived through her share of ordeals to emerge resilient. Furthermore, she has formidable credentials, with a PhD in Bengali Literature and authorship to multiple other books, magazines, and hundreds of newspaper articles.
Film Review: Super Deluxe
Super Deluxe steals you away for the entire show. It’s a brilliant piece of work. Unfortunately, in the theatre, I heard a few mocking laughs and snickers during the scenes with Shilpa, who is transgender.
Book Review: “The Scent of God” By Saikat Majumdar
Located not so long ago in the 20th Century, the story goes like this - a young boy finds lust and love in the company of a classmate at the ashram where he holes up with a brood of other boys and manly monks.
Book Review: Straight To Normal: “My Life As A Gay Man” By Sharif D. Rangnekar
This first step into this world, into his community, was filled with uncertainly, confusion, and fear. It is for most people. Going into something and not knowing what one is going to find there is certainly one of the most vulnerable positions to put oneself in.
Review: Amazon Prime Original “Made in Heaven”
Through all the social commentary the show has tried to touch, it has really only done justice to surface concepts of class and sexuality that the newest working and earning generation of the subcontinent has begun to come to terms with.
Book Review: “I’m Afraid Of Men” By Vivek Shraya
The book is slim at just under 96 pages but impressively well-rounded, reading as diary writings with intimate reflections on Shraya’s complicated relationship with men, or rather masculinity.
Review: “The Good Child” A Comedy Special By Navin Noronha
Noronha was as madly funny as ever, cracking us up with new material as well as putting a different spin on some old anecdotes of his life.
Film Review: Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga
ELKDTAL seams the gravity of depicting a lesbian relationship in our largely shushed society and the expected dreaminess of standing in a wheat stalk field waiting for love to sweep you by, a mainstream Bollywood trope for heterosexual love.
Film Review: Please Mind The Gap
The documentary opens with a note stating photography and videography are strictly prohibited on the metro. Yet the first shot reveals metro doors filmed from the inside, and from then on we are always and already on forbidden territory.
Review: Four More Shots Please? No, Thank You.
This show could have done miles better, but instead it has turned into a shallow South Bombay bourgeoisie alcohol fest with an equally horrific first world and misplaced idea of feminism and sexual liberation.
Film Tangerine: Brash And Unapologetic
The first Academy Award campaigns for openly transgender actresses supported by a film producer were launched for Rodriguez and Taylor and were supported by prominent transgender celebrities like Laverne Cox.
Music Video: Singer Janvi Anand Impresses With “Fool To Want You”.
Janvi’s earthy voice, which sounds almost purposely made a few notches deeper, sounds sublime against the video.
Film Review: Boy Erased By Joel Edgerton
It’s one of those films you expect to leave you feeling angry and disturbed, but instead, you’re left with a sense of calm and subdued melancholy, despite the fact that a lot of what was portrayed on screen was truly painful to watch.
Brooklyn Nine Nine: A Rosy Show
This tension between Rosa's identity and what her family expects of her is a tension between individual and the society, a tension as old as civilization itself.
Book Review: “She’s Just Not That Into You” By Aryka Randall
Randall has a clear target audience in mind. She is talking to women in their thirties who have been screwed over by their relationships one too many times.
Book Review: Poetry is Possible By Vikram Kolmannskog
Vikram's collection of poetry is a beautiful intersection of his spiritual, queer, cosmopolitan, and hyphenated identity.
Book Review: Mohanaswamy By Vasudhendra
This collection of short stories is a view into the lives of middle-class gay men in rural and urban India. The stories are doused in pain, guilt, humiliation, confusion, disappointment, heartbreak, lust, self-realisation, and acceptance.
Film Review: Disobedience By Sebastian Lelio
Disobedience could very well have been sensationalist in its storytelling, as it is the tale of a rekindled illicit affair between two women.
