Filmmaker and partner pretended to be cousins for 13 years to rent home

Acclaimed Bollywood filmmaker Apurva Asrani has celebrated buying a house with his partner after being forced to hide their relationship for 15 years. Asrani is an award-winning filmmaker best known for Satya (1998), Shahid (2013), and the human rights biopic Aligarh (2016). His drama-comedy series Made in Heaven featured a gay man as […]

This gay Bollywood rom-com is hoping to “reach out to homophobes”

A new Bollywood movie is hoping to change minds about gay people. Hindi romantic comedy Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan (Extra Careful of Marriage) hits cinemas in India this Friday, and is making headlines for featuring a same-sex romance and portraying homosexuality in a positive light. […]