As part of the concluding event of The Hub Taster week, Bombay Dost, in association with The Hub, will be screening 'Gulaabi Aaina' and '68 Pages', two award winning films that touch upon both queer and HIV / AIDS issues, on Sunday, 27 September 2009 at 5pm, at The Hub premises.
The Hub is a collaborative space for people with ideas and passion for social change to work out of, meet, connect, learn and grow. * DOUBLE BILL OF QUEER FILMS* – *September 27th, 5.00 pm* The Hub, 4th floor, Candelar Building, 26 St.John Baptist Road, Bandra (W) Landmark: Behind Mount Mary Steps, Next to Smoking Joe's, Above Dilshad Salon *It is a FREE screening. All are welcome.* * * First Come First Seated basis. -------------------------- *Gulabi Aaina* (2003, 40 mins, Hindi with English subtitles) Directed by: Sridhar Rangayan Produced by Solaris Pictures India’s first film on transsexuals is a Bollywood entertainer spiced with Dance, Drama and Desire! Two transsexuals and a gay teenager seduce a handsome hunk using all their charms and some dance moves too. Who will the hunk bed? A comic romp which ends in tragedy, The Pink Mirror, for the first time peeps into the Indian homosexual closet and discovers some touching bonds and relationships. A huge festival hit, having screened at over 70 international festivals and won several top honors. *68 Pages* (2007, 92 mins, Hindi with English subtitles) Directed by: Sridhar Rangayan Produced by The Humsafar Trust in association with Solaris Pictures >From the director of award winning queer films 'The Pink Mirror (Gulabi Aaina)' and 'Yours Emotionally!' comes another hard hitting drama about marginalized people. Subverting the Bollywood film genre of song-dance and high drama, this film places characters ignored by Bollywood centerstage - a transsexual bar dancer, a prostitute, a gay couple - to tell their stories of pain and trauma, of happiness and hope, about being HIV+ and alienated. The film has screened at more than 10 festivals and won Silver Remi Award at Worldfest-Houston and Best Film Award (Care) at the Ahmedabad International Film Festival 2009. It has also screened at 18 cities across India.
