Project Bolo - Lachi - with English subtitles

PROJECT BOLO, meaning 'Project Speak Up', offers role models by documenting Indian LGBT persons -- their growing up, struggles, love, career, achievements and life.

Project Bolo's objective is to record Indian LGBT history, as well as inspire and empower the LGBT community in India, by presenting video interviews of LGBT persons and role models, who 'speak up' about their life and work.

This interview features LACHI.

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LACHI

Ever since childhood, Lachi dreamt of being a woman, and today she is every inch the quintessential woman! Brought up in a not well-to-do family with conservative parents, the young boy that was Lachi did not know for many years what is the meaning of the way he felt about himself and what to do with it. His association with Laxmi Narayan Tripathi and Dai Welfare Society and the transformation into the gritty glamorous Lachi is a journey of self discovery and self transformation. Lachi today is a committed activist fighting for the rights of transgender persons. She also has dreams of being a Bollywood star - a Bollywood transgender star, naturally.


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For more information and to read the transcript of the above interview please visit projectbolo.com/​lachi.htm

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Project Bolo is produced by The Humsafar Trust in association with Solaris Pictures and supported by UNDP (India)

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