Queerness in Indian Media
↳Film: DIDI TERA DEVAR DEEWANA from HUM AAPKE HAIN KOUN (1994, Hindi), dir. SOORAJ BARJATYA
Sooraj Barjatya films are known for their (often unintentionally comedic) portrayals of traditional family values, which is why it was so surprising that a song like Didi Tera Devar Deewana somehow made it into what was, at the time, the biggest Indian blockbuster. The character Rita (Sahila Chaddha), who has no prominent role in the film otherwise, crossdresses to role-play as Prem (Salman Khan). She teases the women, romances Nisha (Madhuri Dixit) and conducts herself with a confident masculinity that was, and still is, virtually unheard of in mainstream Indian cinema across all languages.
Commentary on this song by Professor Gayatri Gopinath, from her book Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures, was posted by Desbian Herstory here.
This song was only the beginning of Madhuri Dixit's involvement in queer media, as she would go on to feature in multiple gay and gay-coded media, both as a supportive character and as the gay character herself. She has also been supportive in real life of the LGBTQ community.
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Comtesse Dulci de Launcet (right), with her daughters Babette and Fifi de Launcet
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The desi urge to rewatch dil dhadakne do everytime your parents fight
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That one "main hoon na.." from the right person is all i need
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Hope Gardner is no stranger to crime, making a living out of selling stolen data. But when her regular couriers refuse to take an important delivery, she's dragged into the world of the Amber Line, a secretive syndicate who'll deliver anything for the right price, and forms an odd friendship with one of their runners, a twelve-year-old girl, too young for this life, with a lot of secrets behind her eyes.
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The Incurable Home // John Haines
Then I came to the house of wood
and knocked with a cold hand.
My bones shone in my flesh
as the ribs in a paper lantern,
the gold ring slipped from my finger.
The door swung open, strong hands
seized me out of the darkness
and laid me in a bed of wood;
it was heavy, weighted with shadows,
lined with cloth woven from wheat straw.
Four posts stood by the corners;
thick candles were lighted upon them,
and the flames floated
in pools of forest water.
The air smelled of damp leaves and ashes.
People whose faces I knew and had forgotten
wound a chain about my hands.
They dipped their fingers in the water,
wrote their names on a clay tablet
and stood aside,
talking in the far country of sleep.
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Violet-green Swallow (Tachycineta thalassina), family Hirundinidae, order Passeriformes, western United States
photograph by Christine Haines
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