Queer crash
http://68pages.blogspot.com/2008/07/queer-crash.htmlTelegraph (westside view), Kolkata July1, 2008
Interconnected stories of sexual minorities, born in a city that doesn't have time to connect
The usual romances of Bollywood were turned on their head at a screening in Calcutta on Saturday — thanks in part to British funding. A new film, backed by the British Department for International Development (DFID), uses all the usual tropes of the Bollywood blockbuster: song, dance and close-up-spangled drama. But this time it is not a boy-meets-girl scenario. Here the lovers are transsexuals, bar dancers, prostitutes and a gay couple — and their tragedies are based on the real-life stories of those facing HIV in Mumbai.
