On the topic of Best Indian LGBTQ Movies, with Section 377 only become legal in India a few years ago, movies on this very subject are starting to find a mainstream audience recently, and, so far, garnered positive response. So , we here at JFMF thought to celebrate some of the Best Indian LGBTQ Movies that are available on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hotstar and other OTT platforms which you should definitely watch if you haven’t already.
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Director – Shelly Chopra Dhar
Cast – Sonam Kapoor & Regina Cassandra
Streamer – Netflix
Sweety (Sonam Kapoor) hides a secret about her true love and decides to marry a writer to please her father, Balbir (Anil Kapoor). But, chaos ensues when she decides to fight her family and society to win her love. A strong and brave film, ELKDTAL is about modern romance and its struggles, but the twist on the genre and the handling of the emotions are the positives of this unconventional movie.
Director – Abhishek Kapoor
Cast – Ayushmann Khurrana, Vaani Kapoor
Streamer – Netflix
Best Indian LGBTQ Movies: Directed by Abhishek Kapoor, who is known for impressive films like Rock On!! and Kai Po Che!, his 2021 directorial revolves around Manu, a bodybuilder (Ayushmann Khurrana) from Chandigarh, who falls in love and gets intimate with Maanvi Brar (Vaani Kapoor), a Zumba teacher. All seems well until a revelation causes turmoil in their love story.
Director – Raghava Lawrence
Cast – Raghava Lawrence & Raai Laxmi
Streamer – Disney+ Hotstar
Preview Only: A more commercial take on the subject, Kanchana, directed by Raghava Lawrence, and starring the latter and Raai Laxmi begins when three ghostly spirits possess a young man and start making him act like a woman, his mother consults an exorcist who unearths a depressing tale of societal injustice, murder, and vengeance.
Director – Harshavardhan Kulkarni
Cast – Rajkummar Rao & Bhumi Pednekar
Streamer – Netflix
Preview Only: Starring Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar in the lead roles, Badhaai Do revolve around a couple, who, instead of coming out to their families, a gay man and a lesbian enter into a marriage to appease their parents. However, chaos ensues when the woman’s girlfriend comes to live with the unlikely couple. One of the Best Indian LGBTQ Movies.
Director – Shakun Batra
Cast – Alia Bhatt, Malhotra & Khan
Streamer – Prime Video
A very wholesome and heartwrenching drama, Kapoor & Sons with Alia Bhatt, Sidharth Malhotra, and Fawad Khan in the primary roles revolves around Brothers Arjun and Rahul, who return home to visit their sickly grandfather. Amidst numerous ongoing family problems, emotions get intensified when a girl causes a rift between the two.
Director – Shonali Bose
Cast – Kalki Koechlin & Sayani Gupta
Streamer – Netflix
Best Indian LGBTQ Movies: Shonali Bose’s Margarita with a Straw revolves around a rebellious young woman with cerebral palsy, who leaves India to study in New York. On her journey of self-discovery, she suddenly falls in love. The movie stars Kalki Koechlin and Sayani Gupta in the lead roles.
Director – Thiagarajan Kumararaja
Cast – Vijay Sethupathi, Ramya Krishnan
Streamer – Netflix
A movie constructed to voice out Thiagarajan Kumararaja thoughts on life and themes that surround it, Super Deluxe delivers intriguing interrelated storylines with dark humor and philosophy. It revolves around a cheating wife, an angry boy, and a transgender woman, who must face their inner demons on a fateful day in the city of contradictions. The film stars Vijay Sethupathi in the lead role with Fahadh Faasil and Samantha Ruth Prabhu in supporting roles.
Director – Hansal Mehta
Cast – Manoj Bajpayee & Rajkummar Rao
Streamer – Jio Cinema
[Also feat. in our ‘Best Bollywood Movies on ZEE5’ list]
Aligarh details the life of Ramchandra Siras, a professor of Marathi, and the head of the Classical Modern Indian Languages Faculty, at the famed Aligarh Muslim University, who was suspended on grounds of morality. A film crew recorded his intimate session with a rickshaw puller. It is the story of his fight for his rights in the court. One of the Best Indian LGBTQ Movies.
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