Tag: Bollywood

Arjun Mathur is a Bollywood actor making a name for himself on the hit new Amazon series Made in Heaven. The show follows two wedding planners from Delhi who run an agency called Made in Heaven. Mathur plays Karan Mehra, the openly gay lead. The series is Amazon’s fourth Indian original series and has proven to be such a hit that it was picked up for a second season just one month after the Season 1 premiere back in March. Since...

Indian actor Manoj Bajpayee says there needs to be more LGBTQ representation in gay films. Bajpayee was recently in London to participate in the Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival (or LIFF), which encompassed three LGBTQ-inclusive films this year titled “Venus,” “My Son is Gay,” and “Bird of Dusk.” In an interview with Reuters, Bajpayee stated that he thinks its time that Bollywood become more inclusive of LGBTQ characters. “There is not enough portrayal or enough films on LGBT rights or LGBT...

The five-month-old twins are called Yash and Roohi One of Bollywood’s most powerful men and India’s most famous gay man has become a father to twins. Karan Johar is a director, producer and talk show host who has made a string of Bollywood hits. As one of the most recognized faces in India he is extremely influential Johar’s twins were born in February via a surrogate mother, but he only shared a photo of them recently on Twitter. The photo is of Johar’s...

'In the real world, gay men come in all sizes, shapes and types, just like anybody else.' Bollywood actor, Meiyang Chang, has called for a more dignified portrayal of gay characters in the industry. Chang is an Indian actor of Chinese descent, a television host and singer, and plays a gay character in a new web series called "Untag." https://twitter.com/justvoot/status/816940348303884288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw On playing a gay character, Chang said: ‘My primary concern was not to be the stereotypical, caricaturist character that our Bollywood films of the...