Here I am sharing my ppt on study of LGBT in Parralel cinema as a part of reseach paper.

1. Representation of LGBT in
Parallel Cinema
Komal Shahedadpuri
Sem-2
Department of English MK Bhavnagar
University

2. Lesbian and Gay Relations
(with reference of two movies)
FIRE by Deepa Mehta (1996) Bomgay by Riyad Wadia (1996)

3. Disinterestedness of Husbands
Ashok turns towards Celibacy
because of Radha’s infertility.
Jatin interested in Julie, Chinese
girlfriend.

4. Radha’s journey to see ocean
Young Radha try to learn how to see
ocean from her mother.
Young Radha finally “see the ocean
without looking

5. First Sign where Sita
comes to know about
Radha’s Desire.
Radha: my mother used to
say that the way of a Man’s
heart is through his stomach,
Apparently It’s a great
English saying.
Sita: my mother says that a
woman without a husband is
like boiled rice, bland,
unappetizing, and useless.
This must be an Indian Saying.
Radha: (looking quietly
passive) I like Plain , boiled
rice.
(Fire,1996)

6. Reinterpretation of age old Myths

7. Use of Traditions for Erotic Expressions

8. Erotica between Heterosexual and
Homosexual
Radha oils the Sita’s Hair. Julie dressed Jatin’s Hair.

9. Use of Locations where both found Solace
Terrace, where they usually go to
breath freely out of oppression of
Marriage.
Nizammudin Shrine where Sita early
wish to live together forever and
finally at the end they united there.

10. Controversy with released of ‘Fire’
• Goyal, Delhi chief of Shiv Sena said ‘Fire insulted
Radhaji and Sitaji and Ramayana also, it hurts the
sentiments of Hindus.’
• Bal Thackeray ,a leader of Shiv Sena party in
Bombay asserted that ‘Fire may have
international awards but will anyone deliberate
on the people are doing by ushering in a
wretched culture , also noted that the depiction
of Lesbianism was a direct attack on our Hindu
Culture and Civilization.

11. Bomgay directed by
Riyad Wadia and
written by Raja Rao.
Six Segments
1) “Opinion”
2) “Underground”
3) “Lefty”
4) “ Enema”
5) “Bomgay”
6) “ Friends”

12. Class Discrimination
Opinion
‘Onions and Opinions are
cheap in Bombay
The Gujaratis in
neighborhood want to
know why you still single
though eligible’
This lines sounds that it about
gay living in the flat and has
servant named Shantabai
who thinks man without
wife and kids is nothing.
Underground
‘You belong to the…
It can’t be said.
As in old days
the touch of some men is
polluted ,
today it’s yours, virtues and all.’
‘You undress underground
and find your Garden of Eden,
Eden Gardens abounding in
Adams and serpents’