GULABI AAINA (The Pink Mirror)

40 min / 2003 / India / Hindi

The Pink Mirror pits two Indian drag queens against a westernized gay teenager in a battle to woo a handsome hunk. It's a clash of the east and west. Who will win? The drag queens, who are expert in the art of seduction with their wit, innuendo and cunning or the young teenager who is saucy, slutty and sly? Underneath the campy humorous exterior, the film is an exploration of the Indian gay landscape and understanding of the deep, humanly tender bondings that exist between drag queens in India who form unique, non-patriarchal families. Using the Bollywood soap idiom of song, dance and drama and for the first time in the Indian drag queens' very own language, Hindi, the film also explores other veiled issues related to the Indian gay community: the lurking threat of HIV/AIDS

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Credits

Director: Sridhar Rangayan

Writers:Sridhar Rangayan, Saagar Gupta

Producers: Sridhar Rangayan, Saagar Gupta

Cast: Edwin Fernandes, Ramesh Menon, Rishi Raj, Rufy Khan, Deepak Sonawane

DOP:Deepak Pandey; Editor: Ajay Paralkar; BGM: Aashish Rego

Production Design: Saagar Gupta

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