7 Indian Films and Web Series to Stream During the Pride Month
From the rights of queer people, the prejudice they face to some tales of self-love and acceptance, these Indian shows and films cover a huge canvas.
Fire, one of the very first mainstream films to talk about lesbian relationships openly, follows the story of two sisters-in-law (Nandita Das and Shabana Azmi) who find solace, peace and love in each other after both of them being in an unsuccessful, unfulfilling marriage.
Memories in March show a mother coming to terms with her son’s sexuality, and trying to understand it through her lens.
Hansal Mehta’s Aligarh tells the heart wrenching true story of Professor Ramchandra Siras (Manoj Bajpayee) of Aligarh Muslim University who was sacked from his position at the university after a sting operation on him revealed him having sex with a male rickshaw puller.
The third instalment of this anthology film, Neeraj Ghaywan’s Geeli Pucchi is one of the recent productions that deal with lesbian relationships through two women Bharti and Priya, portrayed by Konkona Sen Sharma and Aditi Rao Hydari respectively.
While the main plot deals with Karan and Tara establishing their business, one of the subplots shows Karan’s struggle as a homosexual man in a metropolitan city and his relationships that have shaped his life in a certain way.
In The Married Woman, Ekta Kapoor took a break from portraying the ‘saas-bahu’ dynamics of women and explored a story of love between the show’s two leads, Astha and Piplika.
