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Copyright Sridhar Rangayan, 2009
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CREDITS
Title: Rules - Pyaar Ka Superhit Formula
English Title: Rules - Superhit Formula For Love
Year: 2003
Language: Hindi
Subtitle: English
Genre: Feature / Popular Entertainer
Director: Parvati Balagopalan
SYNOPSIS
Radha is employed with an advertising agency, and has a chance to see and meet prominent models. She meets her dreamboat, Vikram Verma, on one such day. Needless to state, she is madly in love with him, but he has eyes for his girlfriend, the gorgeous model, Maggie, only. Radha's attempts to make him notice her are in vain, and in desperation she confides in her grandma, for a solution. Her grandma instructs her to follow a number of simple rules, which will make Vikram notice her. Radha agrees to do so, but will the meek and timid young lady, be able to make an established young man like Vikram notice her?
QUEER NOTES
A fascinating subplot in the film is about a gay couple who decide to plough on and face the prejudices of their families. The scene where photographer accepted his lover in front of his whole family is very touching. The portrayal of the gay couple is realistic and the film does not avoid or blush at their intimacy and emotions.17 Most people feel that this is the only film that represent gays in the way it should be, very sensitively and that this is the most positive portrayal of a gay person in a mainstream Indian movie.
ACTOR/S IN QUEER ROLE
Asif Basra as ---------- and ----------- as ------------ (gay couple)
LINKS
Imdb: www.imdb.com/title/tt0375021/
queer portrayals in Indian films