{"id":42060,"date":"2020-02-20T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=42060"},"modified":"2020-02-20T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T16:27:00","slug":"queer-meets-bollywood-and-the-new-south-asian-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/queer-meets-bollywood-and-the-new-south-asian-diaspora\/","title":{"rendered":"QUEER MEETS BOLLYWOOD \u2013 AND THE NEW SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5123580823957590\" data-ad-slot=\"7875984934\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">QUEER MEETS BOLLYWOOD \u2013 AND THE NEW SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42061 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Queer-Desi-QSAM-at-Midsumma-Pride-e1582215498488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #ff00ff;\"><a style=\"color: #ff00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.starobserver.com.au\/artsentertainment\/queer-meets-bollywood-and-the-new-south-asian-diaspora\/192670\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Star Observer<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #800080;\">A recent conversation during post-Midsumma pride march celebrations at a Melbourne pub soon veered, as they inevitably do in South Asian groups, to Bollywood \u2013 and particularly in a shocking new film.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #800080;\">The movie in question,\u00a0<em>Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 loosely translated as\u00a0<em>Be Extra Careful of Marriage<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 is a new gay romantic comedy, starring Bollywood A-lister Ayushmann Khurrana (think, Bradley Cooper, Ryan Gosling) wooing his male lover and parents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42062 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Queer-Desi-Poster-of-Shubh-Mangal-Zyada-Saavdhan-e1582215706136.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #800080;\">The pride celebrations and very visible queer culture in major Australian cities sometimes allow us to forget the fact that there are still communities where being out could lead to serious consequences. The Queer South Asian world \u2013 comprising immigrants from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan, Bhutan and Maldives \u2013 face serious challenges, from lack of societal acceptance, subcontinental rivalries, and national politics to language and class barriers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #800080;\">\u201cIt is a double-edged sword,\u201d says Dylan Roberts, a second-generation Australian of Sri Lankan origin. \u201cOn the one hand you experience more freedoms here than in our countries of origin, but on the other you\u2019re more likely to experience sexual racism or fetishisation based on your physical appearance that doesn\u2019t take into account individual personalities and abilities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #800080;\">Nakul S Nig moved last year to Melbourne from Sydney, with his partner and two children. The lack of a LGBTQI+ Desi forum in Melbourne bothered him. (\u201cDesi\u201d is an umbrella term for South Asian diaspora communities) In November 2019, he along with a few friends, including Roberts, started a secret Facebook group, Queer South Asians of Melbourne. The group started with five members, within a few months grew to around 150 and in February 2020 marched in their first Midsumma Pride.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42063 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/QUEER-MEETS-BOLLYWOOD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #800080;\">Over three percent of Melbourne\u2019s total population was born in South Asia. Going by known estimates there should at least be a few thousand queer South Asians in Melbourne. \u201cLGBTQI+ South Asians are a minority within a minority in Australia,\u201d says Nig. \u201cNothing beats the sense of belonging one gets when you mingle with others with a common and shared culture, experiences and understanding of each other\u2019s struggles.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #800080;\">Many have grown up with their sexuality stigmatised and worse: Colonial-era laws often criminalise same-sex relations. (India got rid of Section 377, which penalised same-sex relations, in 2018, but similar laws still exist in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.) Queer South Asians seek inclusivity in the mainstream LGBTQI+ spaces in Australia, but also tackle prejudices and hate within the larger South Asian community. Dylan acknowledges that another challenge for the group is to practise what it preaches so that the group is inclusive of gender and trans diverse identities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #800080;\">That is where a film like\u00a0<em>Shubh Mangal\u00a0<\/em>brings hope, points out Dylan. Bollywood\u2019s treatment of queer issues has been problematic, till recently. Over the last decade, Hindi films like\u00a0<em>My Brother\u2026Nikhil<\/em>,\u00a0<em>I Am<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Aligarh<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Margarita With A Straw<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Kapoor &amp; Sons<\/em>\u00a0have pushed the envelope with strong LGBTQ lead characters.\u00a0<em>Shubh Mangal\u00a0<\/em>stands apart by turning the Bollywood commercial genre on its head with a queer twist to its song and dance numbers. In turn, the film is generating conversations, sometimes uncomfortable, around what it means to be queer and Desi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #800080;\">A poignant moment in the film is when the father asks the protagonist, \u201cYou have fought with me, but how will you fight the world?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #800080;\">He replies back, \u201cFor me you are the world!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"MREC\" class=\"ad_center\"><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5123580823957590\" data-ad-slot=\"7875984934\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUEER MEETS BOLLYWOOD \u2013 AND THE NEW SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA Source:Star Observer A recent conversation during post-Midsumma pride march celebrations at a Melbourne pub soon veered, as they inevitably do in South Asian groups, to Bollywood \u2013 and particularly in a shocking new film. The movie in question,\u00a0Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan\u00a0\u2013 loosely translated as\u00a0Be Extra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[12692,12690,12691],"class_list":{"0":"post-42060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"tag-queer-meets-bollywood","9":"tag-shubh-mangal","10":"tag-shubh-mangal-zyada-saavdhan","11":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>QUEER MEETS BOLLYWOOD \u2013 AND THE NEW SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A recent conversation during post-Midsumma pride march celebrations at a Melbourne pub soon veered, as they 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