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Copyright Sridhar Rangayan, 2009
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CREDITS
Title: Bomgay
Year: 1996
Language: English
Genre: Short
Duration: 12 mins
Director: Riyad Vinci Wadia
SYNOPSIS
Based on the gay poetry of R. Raj Rao, "BOMGaY" is a collection of six vignettes that depict the underground and twisted nature of the gay identity in urban India. Part Genet, part Bollywood this film combines acidic verse and insightful imagery to reveal the emerging gay community in post-liberalized India of the 1990's.
QUEER NOTES
Earning its place in cinematic history by being India's first gay film, Wadia's BOMgAY has R. Raj Rao's wonderful poetry at its heart. Six vignettes address what it means to be gay in contemporary India and the struggle of the gay community to establish an identity. 7
ACTOR/S IN QUEER ROLE
Rahul Bose, Kushal Punjabi, Tarun Shahani, Raj Rao, Freddy Firoze, etc
LINKS
Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115603/
queer portrayals in Indian films