QMC Awards 2008 - Treatment of Queer Issues in Popular Film

Reema Kagti, for Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd.

Bollywood is perhaps the most powerful medium for communication in India, and too many films have used it to put out harmful or mocking views of the queer community. The few films that avoid doing this really stand out and last year no film stood out more than Reema Kagti's Honeymoon Travels. The film included not one, but two gay plots, both of them handled sensitively and realistically, and with no indulgence in caricatures.

Clip courtesty: Reema Kagti

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