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CREDITS
Title: Baazi
Year: 1995
Language: Hindi
Genre: Feature / Popular Entertainer
Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
SYNOPSIS
Inspector Amar Damjee (Aamir Khan) finds a terrifying crime in the street when he saves the lives of certain bus passengers. Now his job as a police inspector is to identify the terrorists. Suddenly, a police commissioner's daughter is killed in a homicide but when Amar reaches there police comes and is framed for it and goes to jail for the crime. When he escapes along with the other prisoners accidentally, he goes out to prove his innocence and searches for the man who is behind all this, by which Amar also discovers that he is the same man who killed his parents too.
QUEER NOTES
Bollywood's superstar Aamir Khan cross dresses for a song sequence in a bar and then goes on to bash up the villains in drag! It is rumoured that Aamir Khan had waxed his body to get into a woman's get-up for the song Dole Dole Dil Dole and then spent almost five hours every morning for eight consecutive days being the made-up.3
ACTOR/S IN QUEER ROLE
Aamir Khan in the song � Dole Dole Dil Dole� (cross-dresser)
LINKS
Imdb: www.imdb.com/title/tt0121989/
Wikipedia: http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baazi_(1995_film)
queer portrayals in Indian films