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A more progressive Bollywood is giving queer Indians the chance to tell their stories

The first time I watched a Bollywood film, I was four years old, sitting in front of my dad’s projector screen. We laughed at the old comedy films, we cried at the dramatic ones and since then, we would watch any Bollywood film my dad could find and screen it on the projector. It became part of my childhood and my life.

But as a queer individual, I realised that Bollywood has hardly presented queer identities and when they have, it isn’t representative of

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