This watchlist is an attempt to look at a mixed bag of movies and shows that really got queer joy, queer sex, queer pain right. While a lot of the oft-highlighted queer movies are headlined and promoted commercially by stars, like Shubh Mangal Zyaada Saavdhan on Amazon Prime Video, and Ek Ladki Ko Dekha To Aisa Laga on Netflix, or Aligarh on Zee5, or even the much maligned Laxmmi on Disney+Hotstar, a lot also slips under the cultural radar. ALT Balaji, over the course of this year, has put out two big shows - His Storyy dealing with a married man who decides to come out late into his marriage, and The Married Woman, where the post-1992, politically fraught Delhi gives a housewife’s longings for a woman an additional veneer of tension.Īlso Read: The Ga(y)ze: Re-imagining Friendship In Bollywood Movies
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Netflix’s Sacred Games put trans representation on the shaky commercial forefront.
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Amazon Prime Video’s most coveted shows, Made In Heaven and Four More Shots Please, tackled homosexualtiy head-on. A lot of it has to do with the streaming revolution. Queer storytelling, in India, is at a very different place today than it was 10 years ago. It opens up discussions of what “Queer Cinema” means - Is it just like straight stories but with queer characters? What is the unique joy, angst, and sexual intrigue queer characters bring to a story?
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Pride Month, if nothing else, gives us the excuse and impetus to dive deep into the LGBTQ genre, much like a retrospective for filmmakers gives people an excuse to delve into their movies.