{"id":7999,"date":"2016-01-03T20:18:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T14:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?page_id=7999"},"modified":"2016-01-03T20:18:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T14:48:35","slug":"humour-corner-queering-bollywood","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/humour-corner-queering-bollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Humour Corner: Queering Bollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8000\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8000\" style=\"width: 441px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pad.ma\/LH\/player\/00:00:00.297\"><img class=\"wp-image-8000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Silsila-300x242.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Silsila-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Silsila-700x564.png 700w, https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Silsila.png 815w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to watch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Amitabh Bachchan takes a bath with Shashi Kapoor, his brother in the movie <em>Silsila<\/em>. Kapoor mischievously throws the bar of soap aside and casually asks Bachchan to pick it up. Bachchan bends over in all innocence only to straighten up in realisation as Kapoor eyes his \u2018compromised\u2019 backside. Don\u2019t believe us? Watch for yourself how queer Bombay cinema actually is in these \u2018comedy\u2019 sequences.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8001\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8001\" style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pad.ma\/LI\/player\/C\"><img class=\"wp-image-8001\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Hum-Aapke-Hain-Kaun-300x175.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Hum-Aapke-Hain-Kaun-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Hum-Aapke-Hain-Kaun-700x407.png 700w, https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Hum-Aapke-Hain-Kaun.png 813w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to watch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Madhuri Dixit\u2019s sister in <em>Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!<\/em> dresses in drag at a dance performance for women and proceeds to seduce her. A real crowd-pleaser. Quoting the video\u2019s description, <em>\u201cAs they disappear under a quilt, a link can also be made to Ismat Chugtai&#8217;s short story, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manushi-india.org\/pdfs_issues\/PDF%20file%20110\/9.%20Short%20Story%20-%20Lihaaf%20%5BThe%20Quilt%5D.pdf\"><em>Quilt<\/em><\/a><em>, that is often quoted as one of the first instances of acknowledgement of lesbian eroticism.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8002\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8002\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pad.ma\/LD\/player\/00:00:00.686\"><img class=\"wp-image-8002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Main-Khiladi-Tu-Anari-300x176.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Main-Khiladi-Tu-Anari-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Main-Khiladi-Tu-Anari-700x410.png 700w, https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Main-Khiladi-Tu-Anari.png 807w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to watch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c<em>This clip seems to gesture towards that familiar intimacy between men, even if physical and sexual, need not be translated or understood in terms of identities or even be remarked upon as unusual.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan share a charged moment of possessiveness and eroticism as Kumar can\u2019t contain his jealousy.<\/p>\n<p>Humour has its suggestive side; so much is in the eye of the beholder. Watch more of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/pad.ma\/grid\/title\/queering_bollywood\">Queering Bollywood<\/a><\/em> series on Pad.ma, an online archive of text-annotated video material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amitabh Bachchan takes a bath with Shashi Kapoor, his brother in the movie Silsila. 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