Istg This Should Be My Last Post On Badhaai Do Lmao - Tumblr Posts

pearlgisa
3 years ago

lmao im not going to name names, but there was this instagram page which kept giving the opinion "good queer films by queer people like onir are the ones getting flagged while crap like badhaai do gets greenlit". like dude, you did not just make a valid point while bringing down another film lmao. also they posted this at the time the movie hadn't released. anyways this article came on my timeline and it's poetic justice at its finest and possibly the biggest defense i can give badhaai do:

The image is from an interview with Badhaai Do director Harshavardhan Kulkarni and Director Onir. It is an excerpt from the interview. Here's the excerpt: "Onir: I agree. You don’t have to be gay to make a film about gay love or be a gay person to play a gay character. It is how you break your walls. This film does that so well. When the Pride scene happened, I had tears in my eyes. And the actor I loved the most in Badhaai Do was Gulshan. He embodied the spirit of queerness with so much dignity and without being funny. The only thing I missed in the other two couples is that I found no chemistry. I found love, which is equally precious, but not the ‘desire’ in the touch. In my case, I have always been making independent films which are either funded by me, or crowdsourced. My next film has a trans character, and the platform that was producing it has pulled out of the project owing to a controversy. I was told if I had not reacted to it they would have still made it on the sly with some tweaks. But for me, it is personal. It is my life, my identity, and I will fight for it."

here's the article.

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