CREDITS

Title: 68 Pages
Duration: 92 mins
Year: 2007
Language: Hindi
Subtitles: English
Genre: Feature / Gay/ Transgender

Director: Sridhar Rangayan

SYNOPSIS

Through 68 Pages from a counselor�s diary, the film explores the lives of five HIV positive people - A transsexual bar dancer, a sex worker, a gay couple - characters often ignored by Bollywood take center stage to tell their stories of pain and trauma, of happiness and hope. Coming from a country like India that is still in denial, 68 Pages exposes the shallowness of its society to reveal how it stigmatizes and shuns those who are HIV+ or even those who just want to be what they are.


QUEER NOTES

The film contains two queer strands that run right through the film. One is of a transsexual bar dancer who is burdened by double stigma at being a transsexual and a HIV+ person. Second is of a gay couple who have been together for past four year and have sworn complete fidelity and how their world comes crashing down when one of them discovers that he is HIV+ and his partner has been cheating on him.


ACTOR/S IN QUEER ROLE

Joy Sengupta as Kiran and Sherrin Verghese as Mohit (gay couple)
Uday Sonawane as Umesh / Umrao (transsexual)


LINKS

Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1151299/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68_Pages