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dailysapphiccharacters · 7 months

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Today's sapphic character of the day is Rimjhim Jongkey (Badhaai Do)

#hey look it's my icon from my main #first time seeing a north east indian queer character my heart #rimjhim jongkey #badhaai do #lesbian #sapphic #wlw

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xpsx-8 · 10 months

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Sapphic south asians in media!!

#sapphic #queer #lgbtq #lgbtq+#lesbian #bisexual #pride month #pride #ek ladki ko dekha toh aisa laga #ackley bridge #just another love story #dead end paranormal park #never have i ever #badhaai do #why are you like this #maja ma #desi #south asian #brown people

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dimpledpran · 1 year

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10 Favourite Series/Movies I watched in 2022 (Fave Movie for @asianlgbtnetwork 2022 Recap)

Badhaai Do (dir. Harshavardhan Kulkarni) Genre: Comedy, Drama Starring: Rajkummar Rao, Bhumi Pednekar, Chum Darang Language: Hindi

Shardul Thakur is a police officer, who is under constant pressure from his family to get married, but he isn't too keen on the idea because he's gay. Sumi works as a PE teacher and is also being pressured by her family to get married but she is lesbian. She goes to the police to make a harrassment case and meets Shardul. When he guesses that Sumi is lesbian, he proposes a plan: they will get married to get their families off their back. Problems arise, though, when their families continue to meddle in their lives and pressure them to have children.

I love a movie that talks about acceptance and realisation and the whole journey that comes with a queer character. So having not 1 but multiple such characters, especially in a desi setting, was really fun to watch. As with bollywood, this had a mix of everything; drama, humour, annoyingly invasive family members and a happy ending. It made me laugh so much, it also made me cry. It was perfect. Enjoyed watching this so much.

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maryoliverdotcom · 6 months

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tum aankhon se batana hum samajh jaayenge

#desi academia #desi aesthetic #desi wlw #lesbian #wlw love #badhaai do #jlt's the “other” love story

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dailyworldcinema · 2 years

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Bhumi Pednekar as Sumi Singh in BADHAAI DO (2022) dir. Harshavardhan Kulkarni

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vootins · 1 year

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What if big gay family?

#Badhaai Do #gay #chosen family #bollywood

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bahrmp3 · 2 years

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Badhaai Do (2022) dir. Harshavardhan Kulkarni

#badhaai do #lgbtsource #lgbtedit #dailylgbt #pocsource #pocedit #filmedit #**#film*#badhaai do*#misc: film #context: they are lesbians coparenting with a gay man and adopted a child

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pearlgisa · 1 year

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badhaai do & filmfare and how it affects the queer movement

badhaai do won 6 filmfare awards!! and apart from that, 14 nominations. this is such a welcome surprise to me considering how much the filmfare panders to popular films and celebrities. while i'm convinced that best actor in a supporting role was robbed from gulshan devaiah (who played guru) as well as best dialogues + best director, let's not dwell on that negativity. the war to get same-sex marriage is still on. and i'd like to thank the team for dedicating their awards to the queer community. for those who have been complaining yet again that this was a profitable venture for the people involved, think again about how much it tanked in the box office. and yes, bhumi pednekar has addressed the on-going legal battle for same sex marriage here. i would ask for jaded queer individuals like me to step back and think that there are different ways of coming together to support a social cause. making an entire film is one of them. green lighting such a film is one of them. acting in such a film is one of them. considering what the extremely homophobic government is capable of, we must take all such things into account. and when queer icons like onir also come out in support of badhaai do (btw his red carpet look on filmfare >>>), we should take a page from their book to see where they are coming from. also i went and checked out the team behind badhaai do (not just the actors). apparently the director (harshavardhan kulkarni) and the editor (kirti nakhwa) are already in hot soup with the government since they returned a NATIONAL AWARD a few years back. their reason? the growing intolerance of the government. kinda iconic. and a reminder that this is the same government that routinely sends journalists, activists, historians to jail while dabbling in the same fields and falsifying facts and history. (lmao calling our trauma an "urban elite" problem is so ironic considering they are the urban elites). badhaai do getting the second highest number of filmfare awards is one of the many victories that we have secured. please remind yourself to not alienate any sort of support whatsoever just because it doesn't fit the stereotypical narrative of activism. and after all, activism in art is the most powerful of its kind, is it not?

#badhaai do #filmfare #same sex marriage #bhumi pednekar #rajkumar rao #harshavardhan kulkarni #sheeba chadda #gulshan devaiah #chum darang #lgbt in india #queer bollywood #lgbt #indian lgbt #lgbt movement in india #queer films #badhaai do won filmfare!!#maits.txt

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oldtvandcomics · 9 months

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So far, my favorite non-English queer movies.

Paradise Lost (2018) ; The Blue Caftan (2022) ; I Dream In Another Language (2017) ; The Valley of a Thousand Hills (2022) ; Badhaai Do (2022) ; Mystère à la tour Eiffel (2015)

#international queer cinema is soooo good guys #I really will have to put effort into hyping these up a little #because NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT THEM #to be fair Mystère à la tour Eiffel is just here to make the numbers nice round #I love it very much but... it is a significantly different quality than the rest of these #The first four are very beautiful and tragic and deep #Badhaai Do is a comedy #Mystère à la tour Eiffel... is trash #but it is OUR trash #queer cinema #international cinema #Mystère à la tour Eiffel #Badhaai Do #I Dream In Another Language #The Valley of a Thousand Hills #The Blue Caftan #Paradise Lost

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dailysapphiccharacters · 8 months

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Today's sapphic character of the day is Suman Singh (Badhaai Do)

#suman singh #badhaai do #lesbian #sapphic #wlw

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theinfinitedivides · 1 year

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Filmfare 2023 said gay/sex worker rights in this year of our Lord we do nothing but stay winning

#film: badhaai do #film: gangubai kathiawadi #badhaai do #gangubai kathiawadi #bollywood #local gay watches Bollywood.txt #i have yet to watch Badhaai Do tho bc i am saving it for Pride Month but uh #it was a sweep!!!#Best Film went to GK and the Critic's Choice went to Badhaai Do #along with a host of other awards split between the two of them #God PS2 releasing TSOS releasing Filmfare wins #today is my day

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celluloidrainbow · 1 year

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बधाई दो | BADHAAI DO (2022) dir. Harshavardhan Kulkarni Shardul, a gay cop, and Suman, a lesbian PE teacher, enter a sham marriage to pacify their families, but soon find that relationships — both real and fake — aren’t all that easy (especially once Suman's girlfriend Rimjhim moves in with the happy couple). (link in title)

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twosquareroti · 2 years

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I loved the symbolism of masks in Badhaai Do.

First, when Shardul is on duty watching a symbolic gay wedding procession, he calls over a dancing, masked man and asks him if he wears a mask because he’s ashamed to show his face. The man pulls off the mask, clearly not ashamed at all. Shardul was initially interpreting the mask in a way that a lot of people do, as a way to hide your identity and/or become somebody else, play a character, etc.

But at the end of the movie the message of the mask changes for Shardul. When he puts one on during the parade, the mask becomes a symbol of him openly accepting and showing who he is instead of hiding it.

#This is another movie that made me cry at the end #Badhaai Do #bollywood #hindi movies #hindi film #hindi cinema #Indian movies

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barso-re-megha-megha · 7 months

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no but the moment shardul (Rajkumar Rao's character) puts on the rainbow mask at the end of the movie is such an instrumental moment of just growth and acceptance within and of himself,,, because since the beginning of the movie it's easy to see how hard it is for him to even define/identify himself as a homosexual man and throughout the movie there's a constant conflict of him wanting to live as his most authentic self vs vying for social acceptance both in the contexts of family and career. As a cop he often comes across queer people who are ridiculed and punished and forced to run away,,, but he has to stay there and watch what could happen to him if he ever comes out through the words of the people he's surrounded by and even feels kinship with,,,

the first time he meets guru then,, guru is wearing a rainbow mask at a gay wedding and creating a "ruckus" and "disturbing peace". Shardul on the other hand is there in a professional capacity with his colleagues and is tasked with stopping him from making more of a nuisance out if himself,,, In their first interaction with each other shardul asks him about his masks and whether he's ashamed of himself and that's the reason he's wearing it, to hide which is then followed by him removing his mask.

This marks the way we're supposed to see the mask as not hiding away but accepting a part of oneself and being proud and just accepting of whoever and whatever you identify as,,, moving to the last part of the movie when invited shardul instead chooses to wear the mask as an acknowledgement of himself and his identity and just as a callback to the idea of not being ashamed and just,,, it marks such a big change and growth arc for his character who's seen to be so repressed when concerning his sexuality among family and colleagues

and the fact that he then chooses to click pictures with the aforementioned colleagues is just- cherry on top 🫶🏽🤌🏼 and i just love how he goes from being unable to voice it out loud, to coming out to his family (willingly mind you), to accepting and acknowledging it infront of the people he craves acceptance and respect from (his colleagues but also the society as a whole) and yeah.

#badhaai do #badhaai do 2022 #shardul #guru #rajkummar rao #gulshan devaiah #queer portrayal surprisingly nicely done #queer media #queer #desi queer #lgbtqia #i love them so much #this makes me want to cry and die #simultaneously #bollywood

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dailyworldcinema · 2 years

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BADHAAI DO (2022) dir. Harshavardhan Kulkarni

Bhumi Pednekar as Suman Singh and Chum Darang as Rimjhim Jongkey

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inertia-m · 24 days

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Watched "Badhaai Do" today. I should've watched this in theatres ahhhh. Great characters. Good direction. Amazing Cast. Chill Soundtrack. An Indian Queer Movie that melted my heart. I feel so warm rn (maybe the climate is contributing to this as well) I don't know how many queer people in India get their fairytale ending (probably not many). But I hope every queer person stays happy and hopeful. This movie was one of the best things i've seen in a while. I laughed, cried and vibed :)

#desiblr #badhaai do #desi tumblr #desi movies #i don't remember the last time i watched a queer movie whose lines i could relate to #when you're in engineering college you don't really talk to people about ANYTHING lgbtq #when most of the people you know don't feel/understand/care about queerness -> they'll think of it as a westernized disease #i'm around conservative people 85% time so tumblr is one of the only safe spaces i can show my love for this movie #all i can say is that this movie has my heart #i cried at the end ahhhhhhh #i think i'm still sniffling a bit #loveislove #queer love #all kinds of love are valid #i hope india is a safe place for queer people one day #till then...we shall pray

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