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Rituparno Ghosh

Let’s Talk About 377 | Popular Culture is Changing How India Views Homosexuality
Still from "Fire", showing two women standing together intimately, smiles on their faces
Let’s Talk About 377 | Popular Culture is Changing How India Views Homosexuality

When Deepa Mehta’s Fire came out in 1996, violent protests roiled India over the depiction of romance between two female leads. There is no homosexuality in India, demonstrators declared while burning effigies in the Capital. In contrast, when Margarita With A Straw came out in 2014, it received accolades for its sensitive portrayal of queer desire in a woman with disability.
By Curated Content
December 15, 2018
Let’s Talk About 377 | Popular Culture is Changing How India Views Homosexuality
Brajabuli as a vehicle of queer desires: love songs in Rituparno Ghosh’s films
Still from the film: Arekti Premer Golpo, showing a man crossdressed as a woman, wearing a cotton sareer, red blouse, and gold jewellery
Brajabuli as a vehicle of queer desires: love songs in Rituparno Ghosh’s films

In my opinion, Ghosh was in search of a language of cinema which could be adequately expressive of queerness; he was slowly moving towards inventing that language, which would not be alienating to his conformist audiences, yet, would be intelligibly pleasurable to his (informed) queer viewers.
By Kaustav Bakshi
May 15, 2018
Brajabuli as a vehicle of queer desires: love songs in Rituparno Ghosh’s films
Growing Up In A Bengali Household, How My Language Failed My Queer Identity
A still from a 2010 film 'Just Another Love Story'. A middle-aged man dressed in brown kurta-pajama is bowing as if in courtsey to a woman who is wearing heavy jewellery. She is holding a glass of wine or water in one hand, and chinese fan in another. She is wearing a big red bindi, dark mehroon lipstick, and kajal.
Growing Up In A Bengali Household, How My Language Failed My Queer Identity

By Anonymous for Cake: A while back, when I was toying with the idea of coming out to my parents…
By Curated Content
August 16, 2017
Growing Up In A Bengali Household, How My Language Failed My Queer Identity
The Impossible Collective: A Review of Rituparno Ghosh’s Dahan (1997)
The Impossible Collective: A Review of Rituparno Ghosh’s Dahan (1997)
June 1, 2014
The Impossible Collective: A Review of Rituparno Ghosh’s Dahan (1997)