Moonlight

BY PIHU PATHANIA Moonlight is more of an art depiction;  it covers the aspects of a hood-film than a movie for commercial purposes,  and so, was the first target goal created by screenwriter and director, Barry Jenkins and producer, Adele Romanski over one of their Skype calls when discussing this movie. A triptych drama about black queer youth, as…

Brokeback Mountain

BY: Erende Sangama 13 years ago, after Brokeback Mountain premiered at the Venice Film Festival, the movie hit the theatres. It was 2005 and back then, homosexuality was despised upon, let alone it being legal. The Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger starrer movie ended up stirring a sea of controversy, with some countries even refusing…

Naomi and Ely’s No-Kiss List

  BY: Jhilam Gangopadhyay Starring Victoria Justice, Pierson Fode and Matthew Daddario and based on the book of the same name by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, this movie takes the idea of a gay best friend to a whole new level: what happens when you end up falling for the guy? Naomi and Ely, two extremely attractive…

Aligarh

BY: Shreya Ghosh Aligarh is a movie about…so, what is it about? In dry factual terms it is about a Marathi professor, Professor S.R. Siras of Aligarh Muslim University, suspended and treated unfairly for his sexual preference. But it transcends those dry facts, it goes much beyond that. The movie opens with a literal outside…

Blue is the Warmest Colour

BY: Shraddha Kumar Blue is the Warmest Colour (La vie d’Adèle)  is a 2013 French-language film that follows the journey of a teenage girl, Adèle Exarchopoulos, who is still in high school and is trying to come to terms with her sexuality. After a failed relationship with a boy, she soon finds herself fixated upon…

Kelebeğin Rüyası (The Butterfly’s Dream)

By Divina Sethi Kelebeğin Rüyası (The Butterfly’s Dream) is a 2013 Turkish romantic drama. It is based on the tragic true story of  struggling poets Muzaffer Tayyip Uslu and Rüştü Onurx, played by (the gorgeous) Kivanc Tatlitug (Kuzey Guney, Ask i memnu, Kurt Seyit ve Sura) and Mert Firat (The Water Diviner, Baska Dilde Ask)…