http://www.asianwindow.com/movies/why-im-going-to-see-dostana-with-my-mom-and-kids/ Your ticket to India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the rest of South Asia Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:55:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.asianwindow.com/movies/why-im-going-to-see-dostana-with-my-mom-and-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-436 Gay rights gets a push forward with Dostana « Asian Window Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:12:50 +0000 http://asianwindow.wordpress.com/?p=4026#comment-436 [...] My new Mint column looks at the gay rights movement and how ’soft’ initiatives like Dostana are as important as changing the law: It’s been a few days since I saw Dostana, Bollywood’s so-called gay coming out film. My first reaction was: Wow. Here’s a film that is made within the parameters and, therefore, limitations of mainstream cinema. The two lead actors aren’t gay; they only pretend to be gay. But despite these limitations, the film brings homosexuality out of the fringe and into the drawing room. Look, director Tarun Mansukhani seems to be saying, hot-blooded guys can be gay; there’s nothing chee about the notion and, in a pivotal scene, the lead actress tells the “gay” guy’s resistant mother to accept her son as he is, so that he can live his life and be happy (and gay). more Previously on AW: Seeing Dostana with my Mom and Kids [...] [...] My new Mint column looks at the gay rights movement and how ’soft’ initiatives like Dostana are as important as changing the law: It’s been a few days since I saw Dostana, Bollywood’s so-called gay coming out film. My first reaction was: Wow. Here’s a film that is made within the parameters and, therefore, limitations of mainstream cinema. The two lead actors aren’t gay; they only pretend to be gay. But despite these limitations, the film brings homosexuality out of the fringe and into the drawing room. Look, director Tarun Mansukhani seems to be saying, hot-blooded guys can be gay; there’s nothing chee about the notion and, in a pivotal scene, the lead actress tells the “gay” guy’s resistant mother to accept her son as he is, so that he can live his life and be happy (and gay). more Previously on AW: Seeing Dostana with my Mom and Kids [...]

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