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    'Antharam' to 'Badhaai Do': Top Kashish Mumbai queer film fest lineup

    Karan
    June4/ 2022

    Mumbai: The 13th edition of the Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, which happens to be South Asia's biggest LGBTQIA+ film festival is currently underway at Liberty Cinema in India's financial capital in the Pride month of June. The film fest, which screens gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer films from India and around the world, is the first Indian LGBTQ+ festival to be held with the approval of the Information & Broadcasting Ministry, Government of India. The film fest was founded in 2010, a year after the Delhi High Court's landmark ruling decriminalised homosexual intercourse between consenting adults and judged Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code to be conflicting with the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution of India. It boasts of support from Indian film personalities with Shyam Benegal being the Festival Patron. Since then, Kashish has become an important medium for exhibition, production and distribution of LGBTQIA+ films. It has been voted as one of the Top 5 LGBT Film Festivals in the World, and also one of the Top 5 Film Festivals in India. The festival will be screening more than 190 films from 53 countries from June 1 to June 5. 'Antharam' the bilingual Tamil-Malayalam film opened the fest. It focuses on the plight of a trans woman who had to live as a wife of an ordinary man. 'Antharam' deals with the inner conflicts, warmth, trauma and joyous moments in the lives of a trans woman, a woman and a man living under the same roof. 'Antharam' was followed by the screening of the Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar-starrer 'Badhaai Do'. The film happens to be one of the rare few commercial Bollywood films to have an LGBTQIA story at the heart of it. Commenting on the occasion, Rajkummar R ...

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