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On Vacation

Posted by nipun.goyal On February - 24 - 2010

Shiva Prasad

One of the most exquisite experiences that you can have in India, in public, is watching a brilliant troupe of actors and artists performing a well written, well directed, thoroughly engrossing gay themed play. Such was the experience at the premier of ‘On Vacation’ staged at the Taj Banjara, Hyderabad. Read the rest of this entry »

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Mahesh Dattani

Posted by niladri.chatterjee On July - 4 - 2009

Niladri Chatterjee

Except for Vijay Tendulkar’s Marathi play Mitra’s Story (1982), which is regarded as the first Indian play with a lesbian protagonist, there was not much queer presence on the Indian stage until Mahesh Dattani’s English-language play Bravely Fought the Queen (1991). Since then Dattani has written eight screenplays and twelve other plays; one of these screenplays and four of the plays feature at least one gay character. His recurrent depictions of homosexual characters make him an important figure in South Asian gay culture.

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