| dc.description.abstract | There are many subject matters that are
concealed under the veils of invisibility and ignominy by
the society and the issues revolving around sexuality and
gender rightly qualifies under this category. Such is the
overwhelming presence of stigmatization around the topic
that any analytical study attempted on it opens up another
Pandora`s Box of troubles owing to its spillovers into
other quarters of the society. India too is not an exception
from this social set up where heterosexuality is viewed
as the only form of organizing sexuality invisibilising all
the othercategories i.e. homosexuality, transgender, etc.
which does not fallin the normative one. Protests against
such essentializing tendencies have taken various forms
within the sub-continent. In this paper, we focus onone
of most influential tools of resistance, i.e. cinema. We
proceed in doing this by taking the cases of a few movies
and analyzing its impact on the fulfilling the larger
objective of bringing about inclusiveness in the society.
The conceptual framework of this research is designed to
evaluate the subject matter through a qualitative research
methodology which is mainly based upon secondary
sources. While doing so, we start with an interpretative
analysis of queer cinema in India and look at the larger
debate of queer theory in understanding its impact; we
also try to understand the larger queer movement in
India and the role of cinema in it. We use both social and
psychological dimensions of representations of queer
sexuality in the Indian cinema. Hence, on the basis of an
interpretative analysis,we make a case for the presence of
queerness in Indian cinema as the first stammering steps
towards bringing about inclusiveness in the Indian society
from a social and psychological perspective. | en_US |
