The Pink Mirror

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Gulabi Aaina
The Pink Mirror

Film: 'The Pink Mirror'
Directed by Sridhar Rangayan
Produced by Saagar Gupta
Written by Sridhar Rangayan
Starring Edwin Fernandes
Ramesh Menon
Deepak Sonavane
Rufy Baqal
Rishi Raj
Distributed by Solaris Pictures
Amazon [1]
CustomFlix [2]
Release date(s) January 14, 2006
Running time 40 min
Language Hindi
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The Pink Mirror (Gulabi Aaina) is a 2003 Indian underground film which has has found critical acclaim from reviewers, festival directors and global audiences.

It was India's first film about drag queens. It concerns two drag queens and a gay teenager who attempts to seduce the same person. The film explores the taboo subject of transgender in India and discovers deep emotional bonds.

After screening at 62 international film festivals, the film has been added to various university archives / library as resource material in academic courses such as Gender, Nation and the World; Activist Voices in India; Gender and Film course. [3][4][5] [6]

This film's director Sridhar Rangayan has completed a gay feature Yours Emotionally that portrays a passionate love story between a British Asian from UK and a small town Indian youth. The film is receiving rave reviews for its bold and pathbreaking narrative and is scheduled for a March 2007 DVD release through Waterbearer Films [7].

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Two bitchy drag queens and a sly gay teenager lust after a handsome hunk. A hilarious comedy replete with bitchiness and camp humour set a la Bollywood.

Apart from being a drag romp, the film is an exposition of the Indian gay / transgender landscape, the humanly tender bonds between drag queens in India who form unique, non-patriarchal families and the lurking impact of HIV/AIDS.

The film draws interesting comparisons between indigenous Indian Drag Queens who are a vanishing clan and the contemporary young gays of Bombay city’s queer culture with borrowed western gay identity.

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Solaris Pictures[1]

Sridhar Rangayan [15] & Saagar Gupta. The Pink Mirror (Gulabi Aaina)[16] [DVD]. Solaris Pictures[17].

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