[citation needed] In Breaking Free - Sec 377, filmmaker and gay activist Sridhar Rangayan exposes the human rights violations faced by the LGBTQ community in India due to a draconian law Section 377, and homophobic social mores of a patriarchal society.
[3] Drama/ 102 mins / India / 2018 / Hindi with English subtitles Directed by Sridhar Rangayan Written by: Sridhar Rangayan & Saagar Gupta Producer: Solaris Pictures Evening Shadows - In a small town in Southern India that lives within a cocoon of traditions and social morality, when a young gay man Kartik (Devansh Doshi), comes out to his mother Vasudha (Mona Ambegaonkar), her entire world comes crashing down.
Evening Shadows is a universal story about a mother-son bonding and its emotional strength to withstand the ravages of time and harsh realities.
In this documentary, filmmaker and gay activist Sridhar Rangayan embarks on a personal journey to expose the human rights violations faced by the LGBTQ community in India due to a draconian law Section 377 and homophobic social mores of a patriarchal society.
[4] It won the Rajat Kamal National Award for Best Editing (Non-Fiction) in 2016 for its editors Pravin Angre and Sridhar Rangayan.
Drama/ 90 mins / India / 2007 / Hindi with English subtitles Directed and Written by Sridhar Rangayan Producer: Humsafar Trust Associate Producer: Solaris Pictures Coming from a country like India that is still in denial, where being HIV+ is still a curse, 68 Pages rips open the underbelly of its society to reveal how it stigmatizes and shuns those who are HIV+ or even those who just want to be what they are.
{ Source: imdb} 68 Pages Drama/Gay / 86 mins / UK-India / 2006 Directed and Written by Sridhar Rangayan Producer: Wise Thoughts (UK) Associate Producer: Solaris Pictures (India) Two Brits, Ravi and Paul travel to India where they meet Murthy and Anna an older gay couple that have managed to form a partnership and live together for over 20 years.
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.