7 Bollywood films on LGBTQ romance to watch this Pride month
Aman Wadhwa
Celebrated annually throughout June, Pride month is dedicated to celebration and commemoration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) pride.
Here are 7 Bollywood films centred around LGBTQ romance you should watch this Pride month
The 1996 release Fire showed a romantic relationship between Shabana Azmi's Radha and Nandita Das' Sita.
Ayushmann Khurrana and Jitendra Kumar played two homosexuals in love with each other in the 2020 film Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan.
The 2022 film Badhaai Do depicts a lavender marriage between the lesbian character of Bhumi Pednekar and gay character of Rajkummar Rao.
In Karan Johar's segment of the 2015 film Bombay Talkies, Saqib Saleem's Avinash and Randeep Hooda's Dev develop romantic feelings for each other.
The 2014 film Dedh Ishqiya showed a romantic relationship between Madhuri Dixit's Begum Jaan and Huma Qureshi's Muniya.
The 2019 coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga had Sonam Kapoor playing a closeted lesbian woman.
Ayushmann Khurrana plays an aspiring bodybuilder who falls in love with Vaani Kapoor, a trans-woman, in the 2021 release Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui.