Dostana: Bollywood on gay people →
In 2008, Bollywood had the brilliant idea of adapting the apparently execrable I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. This review of the film leaves one thinking it was on the one hand a better movie than Chuck and Larry and yet a worse cultural phenomenon. It’s an interesting idea - India has a lot more to lose by producing blithely homophobic than America. The film here was very ignorable, even if it did (frankly shockingly) well in box offices, and really doesn’t express the general consensus of modern America in regards to gay folks. For every Chuck and Larry that does get produced, there is no shortage of gay-positive works both without and within the mainstream. Not so much for India.
I’m a little curious to watch Dostana but it also seems like there’s little to gain doing so.
