Audience face a queer situation
So what if the judiciary has woken up to the gay reality? There’s still a section of the society that’s yet to catch up. Only recently, several multiplexes have refused to screen the just released gay film Dunno Y Na Jaane Kyun... citing the excuse that it’s not fit for family audiences. In the past whenever certain controversial films have come to the fore, multiplexes have always slotted them in specific time slots. So why discriminating now?
Shobna S. Kumar, founder of Queer Ink, India’s first online gay bookstore says, “This is a very silly reaction on the part of multiplexes. What family audience are they talking about? Since gay people are born out of straight people, chances are that the gay population is part of their own families.” Shobhna feels that the multiplexes are bowing down to a lot of discrimination. “This is certainly not a business decision as the film is doing well in PVRs, where they have not stopped screening it,” she adds.
Says Anindita Gupta, a fashion consultant, “By that logic, they should also ban all television serials that portray women in a derogatory light. The filth that is shown on primetime, from rape to dowry deaths, affects us in a far worse manner.”
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