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CREDITS
Title: Auntie No.1
Year: 1998
Language: Hindi
Subtitles: English
Genre: Feature / Popular Entertainer
Director: Kirti Kumar
SYNOPSIS
Sandhya (Raveena Tandon) always dreamt of meeting her prince charming, a wealthy man, handsome, debonair, and dashing. She meets Gopi (Govinda), who likes her instantly, and pretends to be the man of her dreams. Sandhya's dreams are shattered when she comes to know that Gopi is poor. Nevertheless, she has given her heart to him, and both fall in love. Sandhya must return to her home, and Gopi is asked by a couple of his friends to become an aunt as a big favor, and he does so with hilarious results. Soon Aunty has two suitors for "herself", Colonel Sadanand Dhongre (Saeed Jaffrey), and Rai Bahadur Behl (Kader Khan)! How will Gopi extricate himself from this mess? To make matters, the real aunt of his friends, Vijayalaxmi (Reema Lagoo) also shows up, with Secretary (Guddi Maruti) in tow!
QUEER NOTES
Bollywood's popular comedy actor Govinda plays a cross dresser - dressing up as Maharani Sahiba, a rich aunt who tries to put the two young star-crossed lovers together, but gets into messy situation when two old men fall crazily in love with the aunt.
ACTOR/S IN QUEER ROLE
Govinda as Auntie (cross-dresser)
LINKS
Imdb: www.imdb.com/title/tt0118654/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68_Pages
queer portrayals in Indian films