young bride with her sisterinlaw mahesh dattani whose mango souffli 2002 breaks away from hackneyed romantic imagery with an erotic underwater gay kissing scene believes that a number of bollywood films caricature homosexuals as a result shopping for actors to perform a gay role becomes difficult onir director of my brother nikhil also decries the stigma against homosexuals a homophobic community must be fed slowly with important issues just like one would feed a baby the protagonist in his film nikhil is a normal guysomeone you grow to love his homosexuality is something the audience is gently made comfortable with albeit not a gay film it does portray a homosexual relationship with cinematic depth and sensitivitygay lovers like their heterosexual counterparts are normal couples asserts 23yearold shrenik writer and director of lost and found the short film is a silent romantic comedy of errors set in a crowded dtc bus two men try to steal a moment of passion on a bumpy ride in a dtc bus by playing with each others hands the plot that meanders into mistaken identities when a pickpocket finds his hand in the wrong pocket makes a serious point about why gay couples in the city cant express their love in public and makes it silently explains the young director for despite all the slogan shouting the issue is still not openly talked aboutr raj rao who currently teaches literature at the university of pune believes that in 19th century india macaulays minute on education and his introducing of section 377 of the ipc known as the antisodomy law were responsible for the onset of homophobia today global capitalism has taken over from colonialism to make india intolerant towards its sexual minorities an alternative morality must therefore find its voice in art and cinema that goes against the grain to jolt society out of its complacencyradhikaoberoitimesgroupcom