Film is first mainstream Indian movie to show family coming to terms with daughter being gayA father tries to marry off his daughter to a handsome bachelor. Opening across the country on Friday, Ek Ladki has been the subject of a careful marketing campaign that has avoided explicitly spelling out the novel features of its plot. “He was very good, but he got the role largely because a lot of mainstream Bollywood actors said no to that part, fearing what it would do to their image,” Sen says. The film is part of a trend of taboo-breaking Bollywood films in recent years. Dhar says she deliberately set Ek Ladki outside of a major city to break stereotypes.

Source: The Guardian February 01, 2019 00:56 UTC