Bollywood`s G-spot: Gays in Hindi cinema

Perhaps Brokeback Mountain did it. The tale of love between two men was a box-office cracker and made a splash at the Oscars in 2006. Or maybe it’s our Health Minister A. Ramadoss’s plea to lawmakers to rethink Article 377 that prohibits same sex relationships. Or both.

The fact is, a few years back, `gay’ in Bollywood was just a word used to describe a state of being. Anything beyond that was considered sacrilegious. Now, when two muscled mainstream Bollywood heroes lock hands and tell the heroine ‘hum gay hain’, you wonder when Bollywood became so accepting of homosexuality.

Here’s a look at the portrayal of gays in Hindi films over the recent years.

Text: Sonia Chopra

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