There was a time when films such as Pyar Kiya Toh Darna Kya (1998) lampooned people from the LGBT community through characters who were manily sidekicks, had overtly feminine gait and were primarily in the films to evoke laughter. And until very recently, in films such as Student of the Year, a homosexual man played by actor Rishi Kapoor is also melodramatic.

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