The BBC yesterday dived in to the Subcontinent movie industry’s latest controversy: a film “about jealousy and hidden desire coming between two women when one of them finds a boyfriend”.
The film’s director, Karan Razdan, said the movie was about a woman who becomes a lesbian due to her circumstances rather than her sexual orientation at birth.“I have not made a pro-lesbian film but my film has started a debate about the subject,” he said.
“Whether my film generates good or bad publicity, my intention is to start a discussion about this subject, and create an awareness in society.
“Lesbians should be accepted in society because freedom of sexual preference should be allowed in a free and democratic country,” he said.
Most women’s groups like FAOW [Forum Against Oppression of Women] agree the film has been made solely to titillate, and shows little sensitivity towards the subject. — Read more from the BBC
Meanwhile, the entertainment portal Bollywoodworld.com reports:
Hardline Hindus hurled stones and damaged cinema halls in India Monday to stop the screening of a Bollywood film about a relationship between two women, saying it violated Indian culture. Nearly 100 activists of the student’s wing of the Shiv Sena group smashed window panes, ripped up posters, and burned effigies at a hall screening the Hindi film Girlfriend in Bombay, capital of India’s prolific movie industry, witnesses said. — Read more from Bollywoodworld.comTags: News
