On 9/23/09, Nitin Karani <nitin.kar...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >
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