Delhi’s feeling gay & Deepa’s happy
Posted on June 30, 2008
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Deepa Mehta, who has just completed another celluloid treatise on the subjugation of women, can’t hide the pride in her voice when she’s told that Delhi’s first-ever gay parade today will begin from Regal cinema in the Capital, where the screening of her lesbian film, Fire, was forcibly stopped years ago.
“I remember I was in Dubai in 1996, watching AR Rahman’s concert. I had just thought Fire would come and go in India without creating a ripple, like all films on unconventional themes. I should’ve known better. I got a call in the middle of the concert, asking me to come down to Delhi immediately. They had just halted the screening of Fire. I was aghast. It was my first brush with the moral police. Later, of course, I got used to being bullied by extra-constitutional censors in India.”
And to think Fire had been passed without a cut when it was submitted to the censor board. “Not a single shot was cut! Not even Shabana and Nandita’s lovemaking. That lulled me into a false sense of security. I thought India had progressed, but a section of moralists won’t accept it.”
Delhi’s feeling gay & Deepa’s happy
Times of India, India
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