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 LGBT Themes Mere Add On To Kollywood's Ribaldry

LGBT Themes Mere Add On To Kollywood's Ribaldry

by The Daily Eye Team April 22 2017, 6:24 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 46 secs

Last month, New York-based Malayalam filmmaker Jayan Cherian found himself exchanging heated barbs with the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) through statements to the press and on social media. The CBFC had refused to certify his film, 'Ka Bodyscapes' which talks about the life of a gay painter, a rural kabaddi player and their activist friend — for the film's "glorification of gay and homosexual relationship". "The film is officially banned in India. CBFC chairperson Pahlaj Nihalani who claims to be the moral guardian of Indian values refused to certify it," says Cherian. The movie was also prevented from being screened at government-funded Indian film festivals.
"No young filmmaker can afford to take this kind of a risk in India," says Cherian who hails from an industry that started toying with the theme of homosexuality as early as 1978 with 'Randu Penkuttikal' that explored the theme of lesbianism.

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Humra Quraishi is a writer, columnist and journalist. She has authored Kashmir: The Unending tragedy, Reports From the Frontlines, Kashmir: The Untold Story, Views: Yours and Mine, Bad Time Tales, More Bad Time Tales, Divine Legacy: Dagars & Dhrupad and Meer. She has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous: Profiles, Absolute Khushwant and a series of writings with the late Khushwant Singh. Her take on what's it like to be a singleton in today's turbulent times, is part of the Penguin published anthology, Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single. And, one of her essays, The State Can't Snatch Away our Children is part of the Zubaan published anthology, Of Mothers And Others. Her essay in the volume on the 1984 Sikh riots, 1984: In Memory and Imagination is titled, Why not a Collective Cry for Justice!  


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