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A Jihad for Love (2008)

Director - Parvez Sharma

Producer - Sandi Simcha Dubowski

Cinematography - Parvez Sharma, Berke Baş,David W. Leitner

Writer - Javed Haider Zaidi

Cast - Imam Muhsin Hendricks,Arsham Parsi,Maryam,Abdellah,Mazen,Ferda,Qasim,Ahsan,Amir,Mojtaba,Kiymet,Sana,Maha,Pedram Abdi (Payam)

Languages - Arabic,Farsi,Urdu,Bengali, Hindi,English,French,German,English,Turkish,etc

Genre - •LGBTQ •Islam •Documentary

Year of Release - 21 May,2008

Box office - $105,651

Awards - •Best Documentary Award,MIX BRASIL •Best Documentary, Image+Nation Film Festival •Best Documentary,The Tri-Continental Film Festival,India • GLAAD Media Award •Teddy Award,etc

A Jihad for Love (preceded by a short film called In the Name of Allah) is an award-winning international documentary on Homosexuality & Islam.It took total six years to make this groundbreaking documentary.Parvez Sharma took the risk to film this documentary in most dangerous country (like Islamic Republic of Iran,Iraq, Saudi Arabia,Pakistan,Egypt).Homosexuality is a punishable crime in most Muslim World.

The work that Sharma started with this film has become a staple in many books on Islam and at U.S. University libraries.The website Faith in Equality put it at number 9 in a list of LGBT films about faith.IMDb rates the film at 13 on its list of 58 titles under the category of "Best documentaries on religion, spirituality & cults".The film first premiered at the TIFF in 2007, and has been screened to great acclaim at several film festivals around the world.The film went on to win 15 other international awards.

Plot

At starting it shows a glimpse of Islam across the globe.The film first featured Hendrick Muhsin, a South African,Pakistani Gay & Muslim.He is also the first Out Gay Imam of Africa.Filmmaker Parvez got into the deep of Hendicks's personal life struggles,his understanding of Islam & reconciliation of intersecting identities.

Mazen, an Egyptian effeminate muslim was arrested in 2001, in a gay nightclub named Queen Boat.He was beaten,forced to stand trial twice on "debauchery" charges & sentenced to a total of 4 years in prison, where he was raped.He eventually moved to Paris.Mazen also has left his families & friends in Egypt.

Sana is a Black Lesbian refugee, & a victim of FGM.She has a deeper understanding of Islam & told Parvez that Queerness is not against Islam.Sana didn't have any kind of sexual relation with any women.But she had intimate loving relations with women.Like others, she came to France as a refugee.Sana befriend with Maryam & Mazen.

Maryam is Moroccan-born queer womxn who lives in Paris.Her girlfriend Maha lives in Egypt.Both lovers met each other on Bint-al Nas - a meeting site for Arab LBTQ womxn.Maryam still believes that she deserves punishment for her lesbian sexual relationship.Both have survived abusive marriages and can only share their love for each other in private.Maryam & Maha go on a shared journey of search and discovery of female homosexuality.In Al-Azhar, they discover an old bookstore where they find a copy of the Fiqh al-Sunnah(The Laws of the Prophet).In the heart of an ancient mosque in the Citadel,they discover beautiful Islamic calligraphy as they declare their impossible love for each other.

Amir, an Iranian gay shia who has respect for Imam Hosseini.He sacrificed his life for Allah & reconciling his muslim faith.While in Iran, he was persecuted under the charges of illicit sexual conduct,illicit mannerism & received 100 lashes.After being brutally beaten and tortured in the police custody.The judge also threatened Amir that he should be punished by stoning.However he was sentenced to flogging.He told Sharma that Allah helped him to escape this traumatic situation.He fled to Turkey as soon as well.There he met 3 gay refugees - Arsham,Payam,Mojtaba.Mojtaba, another (Persian) gay muslim who ran away from Iran,due to his same sex marriage ceremony in 2005.

Ferda & Kiymet are a happy couple in Turkiye.Kiymet belongs from a conservative family.In her early Kiymet's marriage was fixed with a man.Kiymet's marriage ended up at divorce.Then she found Ferda, her soulmate.Ferda's mom is very supportive & tolerant of sexuality.Ferda is a devout sufi queer muslim, who honors Rumi - a prominent sufi icon for both LGBTQ+ & Straight Muslims.

Ahsan & Qasim are queer platonic friends.Ahsan is a Sunni Muslim & Qasim is a Shia Muslim.Both men, belongs from poor backgrounds do not adopt the western peronae of ‘gay’ and instead rely on vernacular terms.Ahsan & Qasim are part of transvestite,transgender community called Zenana,Kothi in Northern India.Most of these community hide themselves from public.Ahsan,Qasim find a safe space in his community.While Qasim is struggling with his sexuality in heteronormative society.

The filmmaker also documented the diverse tolerance of sexuality in sufi traditions (Pakistan,India & Turkey).

Is it the first film on Islam & Homosexuality?

''A Jihad for Love'' is called world's 1st film on Islam & Homosexuality.A Jihad for Love would be an international feature documentary film rather than world's first film on LGBT muslims.However there are several films that focused on LGBTQ muslim or Queerness in Islam.For Example:

Road to Love (2001)

Act of Faith (2002)

Haremde dört kadin (1965)

Hammam al-Malatily (1973)

Köçek (1975)

Ihtiras Firtinasi (1984)

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Marcides (1993)

Istanbul Beneath My Wings (1996)

Hamam (1997)

Lola & Billy the Kid (1999)

Production

Bismillah (In the name of Allah) was considered as an early working title for this documentary.Among muslims,the word Bismillah is very auspicious & used before beginning actions,speech,writing.But the tittle was not considered as the final title of this film due to controversy.

A Jihad for Love is produced by Halal Films, in association with the Sundance Documentary Film Fund,Channel 4 (UK),ZDF (Germany),Arte (France-Germany),Logo (US) & SBS Australia.The director & producer Parvez Sharma & co-producer Sandi Dubowski raised more than a million dollars over a 6 years period to make the film.

In an interview with The NY Times,Parvez Sharma said that he "would shoot touristy footage on the first 15 minutes & the last 15 minutes of a tape", with interviews for documentary in between, to avoid having his footage seized at customs.He compiled 400 hours of footage from a dozen countries ranging from Iraq to Pakistan to the UK.The nature of the work placed him at considerable personal risk.He adopted hardcore guerrilla film-making tactics,pretending to be a tourist in one country,a worker for an AIDS charity in another country.Wherever he went,he asked his queer friends to keep copies of footage and destroy the tapes once he had successfully smuggled the masters out of the country.

During his filmmaking Parvez traveled several countries including Pakistan, Iraq, India, Bangladesh, Egypt, USA, UK, Turkey, France, Saudi Arabia, South Africa,[...].

Interviews

In an interview with NY Times magazine,Parvez Sharma said,"Being gay and Muslim myself,I knew that this film had to be about us all coming out— as Muslims. It's about claiming the Islam that has been denied to us." With a target audience of "faithful Muslims," he undertook a variety of outreach tactics, including leafleting mosques,blanketing MySpace,screening in Astoria for 15 key progressive Muslim leaders.In an interview to Der Spiegel, Sharma explained the significance of the title: "I'm not looking at jihad as battle.I'm looking at the greater jihad in Islam, which is the jihad as the struggle with the self.I also thought it was really compelling to take a word that only has one connotation for most -- to take that, reclaim it and put it in the same phrase as love,which is universal.I really think it explains it very well.

Film Screening

A Jihad for Love first premiered in Toronto International Film Festival(TIFF) in September 2007.At its premier,the director was given a security guard for safety reasons.After this film festival A Jihad for Love got huge applaud internationally.A Jihad for Love film premiered as the opening film of Panorama Documente of the Berlin Film Festival in February 2008.

The film was screened in The Rio Film Festival,Brazil on September 2007,Morelia Film Festival,Mexico, on October 2007,The Sheffield DocFest on November 2007,London Gay & Lesbian Film Festival on March 2008,Melbourne International Film Festival on July 2008,Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival on March 2008,etc.A Jihad for Love's first premier in African continent was The Out in Africa Film Festival in Johannesburg and Cape Town,November 2007. On April,2008 A Jihad for Love film was successfully screened at Istanbul International Film Festival.It was the first time that the film allowed to screen in a muslim-majority country.Film also screened in Q! Film Festival of Indonesia.Although singapore banned the film from festival in 2008 due to its sensitive subject.

Popularity

A Jihad for Love film's sale and broadcast on NDTV, South Asia's largest network in 2008 would have a "remarkable" impact on this LGBTQ cause. "NDTV's broadcast has in effect made the film available to over one billion viewers in India,Bangladesh,Pakistan, & large portions of the Middle East and Africa.The various distributors and their Total Rating Points in European television, the Indian/South-Asian sale with its claimed footprint of 15 billion viewers, the theatrical release & the purportedly large numbers of Netflix viewers made the filmmakers and the TRP experts arrive at a number of 8 million total viewers calculated over a period of four years for this documentary.

International Muslim Dialogue Project

Immediately after the film's theatrical launch around the USA,Parvez & Sandi launched the International Muslim Dialogue Project on 2008.The aim of the project was to organize screenings of the film in Muslim Capitals.Sharma called it the "Underground Network Model" of film distribution.He invented this model sending unmarked DVD's of the film with friends & colleagues to Muslim capitals across the world with full permission to sell pirated copies.Some of the boldest were Beirut,Cairo,Karachi,eight cities in Indonesia & Kuala Lumpur

The film was screened privately screened in Iran,Palestine,Bangladesh and Somalia.

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https://learntransformation.com/pride-month-days/

The article highlights key dates and actions for supporting LGBTQ+ rights. June 1st marks Pride Month's start, emphasizing unity. June 28th commemorates the Stonewall Riots, pivotal in LGBTQ+ history. Suggestions include advocating for inclusive education, mentorship, respecting pronouns, using gender-neutral language, attending seminars, supporting LGBTQ+ artists, and promoting inclusivity in workplaces. Facts reveal increasing support but ongoing challenges, including discrimination and mental health issues. Inspiring leaders like Parvez Sharma and Kalki Subramaniam are noted. Kalki's advocacy in India, including founding the Sahodari Foundation and influencing transgender rights legislation, showcases her impactful work.

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35 Years of Maalamaal

“Maalamaal” is a 1988 Hindi comedy film. It stars Naseeruddin Shah and Satish Shah and was directed by Kawal Sharma. The film draws inspiration from the 1985 English movie “Brewster’s Millions,” which was adapted from George Barr McCutcheon’s 1902 novel of the same name. There have been multiple adaptations of this novel, including a Broadway play in 1906. A notable feature of “Maalamaal” is the guest appearance of the famous cricketer Sunil Gavaskar.

The cast includes Naseeruddin Shah, Poonam Dhillon, Mandakini, Satish Shah, Aditya Pancholi, Dalip Tahil, Amjad Khan, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Bharat Bhushan, Praveen Kumar Sobti, Sunil Gavaskar, Lalita Pawar, Jankidas, Yunus Parvez, and Jack Gaud.

The film was written by Charandas Shokh, produced by Bipan K. Dewan, with cinematography by Pratap Sinha. Kewal Sharma edited the film, and the music was composed by Anu Malik with lyrics by Indivar.

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On the whole, MISSION RANIGANJ makes an impact due to the subject

Mission Raniganj Review {3.5/5} & Review Rating

MISSION RANIGANJ is the story of a man trying to rescue miners against all odds. The year is 1989. Jaswant Singh Gill (Akshay Kumar) is a rescue officer and is based in Raniganj, West Bengal. On November 11, hundreds of miners descend into the mine of Mahabir Coillery at night. An underground blast goes wrong and water starts gushing with powerful force. The miners attempt to escape. Several of them safely make it to the ground. But a group of 65 miners get stuck. The next morning, Jaswant volunteers to rescue the miners. D Sen (Dibyendu Bhattacharya), who is a local contact, however, attempts to take over the rescue operation. He comes up with a plan and tries to save the miners. However, his plan fails. On the other hand, Jaswant finds out the highest point in the underground mine. He then drills a hole at that very place and attempts to establish contact. The miners, too, realize that they need to be at the highest point for better chances of rescue. With great difficulty, they try to reach there but get stuck due to a stoppage wall between them and the highest point. Meanwhile, time is running fast and Jaswant needs to rescue them before they drown or die by inhaling a poisonous gas present in the mine. What happens next forms the rest of the film.

Deepak Kingrani's story (story idea by Poonam Gill), inspired by a true incident, is intriguing. Vipul K Rawal's screenplay is engaging. The writer has peppered the narrative with dramatic and tense moments. Deepak Kingrani's dialogues are okay. A film like this should have had more powerful dialogues.Tinu Suresh Desai's direction is superb. At 138 minutes, he has kept the duration in check. He has packed in a lot and also kept things simple for most parts. The obstacles that Jaswant encounters from locating the miners to establishing contact to manoeuvring politics make for a great watch. Some scenes that stand out are Jaswant offering water to a lady in distress, Jaswant convincing the railway officer to slow down the speed of the trains, the intermission, Jaswant establishing contact with the miners, Jaswant promising O P Dayal (Shishir Sharma) that he’ll have tea with him next day etc. The finale is nail-biting.On the flipside, the first half is a bit weak and doesn’t create the desired impact. The VFX is poor. Lastly, there are cinematic liberties in the finale which take away the realism.Speaking of performances, Akshay Kumar’s beard looks a bit unreal. But his performance packs a punch as expected. One can’t help but root for him in this mission. Parineeti Chopra (Nirdosh) puts up a nice act but her role seems forced. Kumud Mishra (R K Ujjwal) is fine but showing him smoking in all scenes gets too much after a point. Dibyendu Bhattacharya is dependable. The same goes for Pavan Malhotra (Bindal) and Virendra Saxena (Tapan Ghosh). Rajesh Sharma (Govardhan Roy) is over the top. From the miners, Ravi Kishan (Bhola) and Jameel Khan (Pasu) leave a mark followed by Sudhir Pandey (Behra), Varun Badola (Shaligram), Mukesh Bhatt (Murli), Bachan Pachehra (Noor; dog-lover) and Omkar Das Manikpuri (Bishu). Shishir Sharma (O P Dayal) is fair. Rajit Kapur and Ananth Narayan Mahadevan are hardly there.Mission Raniganj: The Great Bharat Rescue | Official Trailer | Akshay KumarThe songs are disappointing. 'Jalsa 2.0' is well-shot while 'Jeetenge' and 'Keemti' fail to register. Sandeep Shirodkar's background score has a commercial vibe.Aseem Mishra's cinematography is appropriate. Sheetal Iqbal Sharma's costumes are realistic. Amrish Patange and Dayanidhi Patturajan's production design is detailed and well-researched. VFX is very bad. Parvez Shaikh's action is fair. Aarif Sheikh's editing is just right.On the whole, MISSION RANIGANJ makes an impact due to the subject, clap worthy moments in the second half, nail-biting moments and Akshay Kumar’s performance. At the box office, the negligible buzz can affect its prospects and it will need a strong word of mouth to make the desired impact. #MISSION #RANIGANJ #impact #due #subject Read the full article

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Winners of 68th Hyundai Filmfare Awards 2023

Lights, camera, action! The much-awaited 68th Hyundai Filmfare Awards 2023 was held recently, and the biggest stars of the Indian film industry came together to celebrate their achievements over the past year.

This annual award ceremony is one of the most prestigious events in the Indian entertainment industry and recognizes the best talent in Bollywood. From stunning performances to gripping storylines, the movies of 2022 left audiences captivated and entertained. So, without further ado, let's take a look at the list of winners of the 68th Hyundai Filmfare Awards 2023! BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (MALE)

Rajkummar Rao for Badhaai Do BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (FEMALE)

Alia Bhatt for Gangubai Kathiawadi BEST FILM

Gangubai Kathiawadi BEST FILM (CRITICS')

Badhaai Do BEST ACTOR (CRITICS')

Sanjay Mishra for Vadh BEST ACTRESS (CRITICS')

Bhumi Pednekar for Badhaai do BEST ACTRESS (CRITICS')

Tabu for Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 BEST DIRECTOR

Sanjay Leela Bhansali for Gangubai Kathiawadi BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (MALE)

Anil Kapoor for Jugjugg Jeeyo BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (FEMALE)

Sheeba Chaddha for Badhaai do BEST MUSIC ALBUM

Pritam Chakraborty for Brahmastra Part One: Shiva BEST LYRICS

Amitabh Bhattacharya for Kesariya (Brahmastra Part One: Shiva) BEST PLAYBACK SINGER (MALE)

Arijit Singh for Kesariya (Brahmastra Part One: Shiva) BEST PLAYBACK SINGER (FEMALE)

Kavita Seth for Rangisari (Jugjugg Jeeyo) BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR

Rajeev Barnwaland and Jaspal Singh Sandhu for Vadh BEST DEBUT MALE

Ankush Gedam for Jhund BEST DEBUT FEMALE

Andrea Kevichusa for Anek BEST DIALOGUE

Prakash Kapadia & Utkarshini Vashishtha for Gangubai Kathiawadi BEST SCREENPLAY

Akshat Ghildial, Suman Adhikary and Harshavardhan Kulkarni for Badhaai Do BEST STORY

Akshat Ghildial and Suman Adhikary for Badhaai Do BEST ACTION

Parvez Shaikh for Vikram Vedha BEST BACKGROUND SCORE

Sanchit Balhara and Ankit Balhara for Gangubai Kathiawadi BEST CHOREOGRAPHY

Kruti Mahesh for Gangubai Kathiawadi BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Sudeep Chatterjee for Gangubai Kathiawadi BEST COSTUME

Sheetal Iqbal Sharma for Gangubai Kathiawadi BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Subrata Chakraborty and Amit Ray for Gangubai Kathiawadi BEST EDITING

Ninad Khanolkar for An Action Hero BEST SOUND DESIGN

Bishwadeep Chatterjee for Brahmastra Part One: Shiva BEST VFX

DNEG, Redefine for Brahmastra Part One: Shiva

Special Awards

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Prem Chopra R D BURMAN AWARD FOR UPCOMING MUSIC TALENT

Jahnvi Shrimankar for Dholida (Gangubai Kathiawadi) In conclusion, the 68th Hyundai Filmfare Awards 2023 was a night to remember, filled with glitz, glamour, and of course, deserving winners. The event celebrated the best of Indian cinema and recognized the hard work and dedication of actors, directors, writers, and technicians who brought their vision to life on the big screen. As always, the Filmfare Awards set a high benchmark for excellence in the film industry. Congratulations to all the winners of the 68th Hyundai Filmfare Awards 2023! To read more blogs – Click Here Read the full article

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SMVDU celebrated 100th Mann ki Baat episode

 SMVDU Katra organized mini marathon against drug abuse to celebrate 100th episode of Mann ki Baat. NSS unit and Board for Sports Activities organized the mini marathon in University premises. Around 100 participants participated in the event enthusiastically. NSS volunteers Awanish and Mehak also shared their thoughts on drug abuse. Refreshments and cash prizes provided by President, Hindustan Scouts and Guides NGO were also distributed to the participants. After the mini marathon event live Telecast of 100th episode of Mann Ki Baat was organized in a lecture Hall. Students listened thoughts shared by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. NSS coordinators Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Kamaldeep, BSA President, Dr. Parvez Salathia and other faculty and staff members including Dr. Indu Bhushan, Dr. Amit Sinha, Dr. Neeraj Tripathi, Dr. Vikram Singh, Mr. Avdhesh Gupta, Mr. Gaurav, Mr. Sanjeev Vadawan, Mr. Sumit Sharma were also present during the event. Vice chancellor Prof. R. K. Sinha congratulated all participants for attending the celebration events on the historic occasion. 

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Parvez Sharma

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 8 July 1976

Ethnicity: Indian

Occupation: Writer, journalist, activist, producer, director

Note: Is Muslim and for a documentary went to Mecca 

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Uh-Oh. What's he posting now? Really though, my favorite exchange from this is: Parvez Sharma: There's no flood of refugees coming into america with the agenda to kill homosexuals.

Aymann Ismail: But what about the Pulse massacre?

Parvez: Well he was raised in this country.

Aymann: How do we know for sure that this isn't going to happen again if we're bring more Muslims into this country?

Parvez: I--I don't understand.

Aymann: Well that's the fear. We're bring in all these Muslims who are homophobic...

Parvez: My Friend, it is okay in the midwest and the entire red map of America to attack & kill homosexuals. Homophobia is not something that is going to ARRIVE on America's shores on the backs of these [Muslim] refugees [because it's already here.]

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What are you reading Right now?

I’m in one of those weird phases where I’m going back-and-forth on books because I have a lot of new stuff that I really want to read but am having a hard time of committing to one thing, so I’m reading everything but ultimately it seems like I’m reading nothing. Does that make sense?

Anyway, the books I’ve been alternating between over the past few days are:

•The Last Republicans: Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush (BOOK | KINDLE) by former LBJ Library Director Mark Updegrove (and available everywhere on November 14th)•A Sinner In Mecca: A Gay Muslim’s Hajj of Defiance (BOOK | KINDLE) by Parvez Sharma•Destination Casablanca: Exiles, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II (BOOK | KINDLE) by Meredith Hindley•The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President (BOOK | KINDLE) edited by Dr. Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div.

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Parvez Sharma

DOB : July 8, 1976

Occupation : Journalist, Filmmaker,Writer, Activist

Gender : Male

Sexuality : Gay

Ethnicity : Indian 🇮🇳

Spouce : Dan

Awards : Best Film,Mix Brasil 2008,Best Film,Image +Nation,Montreal 2008,Monette Horowitz Award,Cinereach Award,Arts PAC—Artists for Freedom Of Expression,Arcus Foundation Award,The Hartley Film Award,Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts 2006,GLAAD Media Award,Stonewall Community Fund, etc

Parvez Sharma (also known as Parvez Hussein Sharma) is an Indian-born American journalist, writer, filmmaker & activist. He proudly identify himself as Gay & Muslim. Sharma's writings have appeared on The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast and The Guardian.He is a recipient of the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship in the film/video category. He is best known for his films In the name of Allah (short), A Jihad for Love, A Sinner in Mecca, & his book A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim's Hajj of Defiance. He received the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary amongst several other international awards for A Jihad for Love. For his 2 controversial documentaries, Parvez Sharma faced lots of criticism from Muslim communities.After the release of A Jihad for Love, Sharma was labeled as Apostate by the Muslim Judicial Council of South Africa.

Early Life:

Parvez Sharma was born on 8th July of 1975 in a small town of New Delhi. His parents were sunni muslim. He grew up in various cities all over India. His high school was a Catholic School called St Mary's Academy where all students had to recite the Pater Noster during morning assembly. At the age 12, he had (inappropriately) speed-read his mother’s copy of “Gone with the Wind” & even gotten his hands on Christopher Isherwood’s “Berlin Diaries”. By 13 he was precociously photographing everything with a pretty basic Vivitar camera which was gifted by his American cousin.

He recieved his bachelor degree in English literature from Presidency College of the University of Calcutta.He received his master's degrees in Mass Communication (Film and Television) from Jamia Millia Islamia University,Broadcast Journalism from the University of Wales,Cardiff & Video from American University's School of Communication.He moved to the United States in 2000 as a student at Columbia University's Film School, but was unable to continue a second semester due to lack of funds and moved to American University where he was given scholarships.

Career:

Parvez Sharma worked as a journalist for India's 24-hour news television network NDTV.He also worked on programming for BBC World Television(India), the Discovery Channel(United States), & the World Bank (United States).Parvez Sharma worked in several radio,print, and broadcast.

In the nineties, Sharma was a print journalist for several prominent Indian newspapers including The Telegraph,The Statesman,The Economic Times,The Business Standard, & India Currents Magazine.While at the Statesman he reported on what was the first ever detailing of the lesbian experience within India for a national newspaper - Emerging from the Shadows (July 3, 1994)– which became a rallying point for lesbians around the country and was crucial in the formation of many lesbian organizations.

Sharma was instrumental in setting up the first organized LGBT effort in the eastern state of West Bengal,setting benchmarks for many other LGBT organizing efforts around the subcontinent.

Films

In his short film, In the name of Allah , Parvez interviewed American,British & South Asian Gay & Lesbian Muslims.A Jihad for Love film was preceded by this short film.Parvez Sharma came up with the idea after listening to the stories of gay muslims, when he attended American University.He decided to give a voice "to a community that really needed to be heard, and that until now hadn't been.Parvez Sharma and his film's co-producer Sandi Dubowski raised more than a million dollars over a 6 year period to make this daring film. Parvez conducted interviews of many LGBTQ+ muslims from different backgrounds.He met these people through the Internet.The film was filmed in 12 different countries and in 9 languages. Sharma compiled 400 hours of footage of interviews throughout North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, & the Middle East.Countries included Iran,Iraq,Saudi Arabia,Egypt,Bangladesh,Pakistan,Turkey,France,India,South Africa,USA & UK.

In just its opening week during a limited release of 33 cities, A Jihad for Love, for example, ran for four weeks at New York's IFC theaters.The film grossed $22,287, out of which, $10,519 was just in New York.The Domestic Total Gross for the film is $105,659.A Jihad for Love was theatrically released in 33 cities,while A Sinner in Mecca was only released in four cities, for a week each.Its box office numbers were low, except in New York where it had a higher box office return of $11,220.The film also premiered in 2007 at the Toronto International Film Festival & in 2008 at the Berlinale.It went on to premier at more than a hundred film festivals globally and was released in theaters in the US and Canada in 2008 by First Run Features and Mongrel Media.A Jihad for Love was broadcast in India and other countries by India's NDTV.It was shown in two parts over the Aug 1-2 and Aug 8-9 weekends.Further A Jihad for Love was banned from screening in the Singapore International Film Festival, 2008.The film was also banned in several muslim-majority countries.By 2011, Sharma conducted live events and screenings of A Jihad for Love in many Muslim nations and capitals ranging from Beirut,Lebanon and Istanbul, Turkey, to Bishkek,Kyrgyzstan and Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia.In Indonesia, the film did an 8-city tour to acclaim.

In 2007 he wrote a chapter for the book Gay Travels in the Muslim World. In 2009 Parvez Sharma wrote the foreword for the anthology Islam and Homosexuality.

In 2009, Sharma was named as one of "50 Visionaries changing your world" in a list headed by the Dalai Lama.The OUT Magazine named Parvez Sharma one of the OUT 100 twice for 2008 and 2015- "one of the 100 gay men and women who have helped shape our culture during the year".On 29 May 2013 Sharma was honored as an "LGBT hero" by first-lady Michelle Obama at a DNC fundraiser in New York.

Activism:

As an activist Parvez Sharma has spoken internationally on distinguished film/media panels and panels on Muslim & South asian LGBTQ+ issues, human rights violations across the world & the crisis in 21st century Islam.

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Indian celebrities who are QUEER

Karan Johar

Director and producer Karan Johar have never officially come out as gay. However, Johar, who directed the 1998 movie Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and the 2001 movie Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham…, heavily hinted about his sexual orientation in his autobiography An Unsuitable Boy in 2017.

Apurva Asrani

Award-winning filmmaker, editor, and writer Apurva Asrani, who is known for working on successful films like Satya (1998), Shahid (2013), and CityLights (2014), is one of the few openly gay men in Indian cinema.

Vasu Primlani

Openly lesbian stand-up comedian Vasu Primlani is known for tackling different issues in her routines, including rape, human rights, and the environment.

Shonali Bose

Film director, writer, and producer Shonali Bose, who is bisexual, is known for her movies including Amu (2005) and Margarita with a straw (2015), which are about two women living with disabilities who fall in love with one another.

Sushant Divgikar

Model, TV host, and performer Sushant Divgikar won Mr. Gay World India back in 2014—and is now the national director of the organization. In 2014, he also took part in India’s most popular reality TV show Bigg Boss 8.

Wendell Rodricks

Fashion designer and LGBT+ rights activist Wendell Rodricks has been campaigning for the legalization of homosexuality for years in India.

Parvez Sharma

The New York-based Indian filmmaker and journalist Parvez Sharma have been outspoken about gay rights in his work over the years. Sharma is known for his 2008 film A Jihad for Love—believed to be the world’s first film documenting the lives of gay and lesbian Muslims—and his 2017 book, titled A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim’s Hajj of Defiance.

Anwesh Sahoo

Artist, model, and blogger Anwesh Sahoo won Mr. Gay World India in 2016 and went on to represent his country at Mr. Gay World in Malta, Europe, that year—making it to the top 12. Sahoo is also a TEDx speaker.

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I accidentally deleted 2000 words of story for poor Soundwave last night and had to rewrite everything but tbh, they’re absolutely worthit.  Their armor definitely makes me want to experiment with Celtic motifs for Hot Rod!

Full story below.

Suraya Widodo was born to parents Wijaya and Ni Made Saraswati on the island of Madura, Indonesia. They noticed that something didn’t quite seem right with their baby, who was fussier than most, threw fits when brought into crowded spaces and seemed mostly lost in their own thoughts, though this did little to dampen their love.

The name ‘Widodo’ (healthy) was given to Suraya (despite the masculine nature of it, which does lend to Suraya’s nonchalance about their gender in later years) in hopes that they would grow up alright despite their quirks.

Wijaya, a fisherman who wanted to give his family a better life in the more industrialized town of Bangkalan west of the island, pushed himself hard at his work, hoping to earn enough to allow them to settle down there comfortably.

He began to risk venturing out into ocean areas which were occasionally used as smuggling routes where more lucrative catches laid, careful to fish there during specific times to the day to avoid crossing paths with pirates and smugglers.

However, his luck ran out one day when a smuggling vessel came across him in broad daylight and silenced him from alerting the coast guards to their existence with five shots.

Suraya was five.

Saraswati, desperate to find a way to care for her child as the new breadwinner thought she had gotten lucky when a job scouter for a factory in Bangkalan came to the village. They were looking to offer work to single mothers as part of their corporate responsibility programme and extended the offer of employment to her and promised a hostel and training so she wasn’t out of her depth in the assembly line.

Seeing it as the best option, she left Suraya with her husband’s family while she worked and lived in a worker’s hostel on weekdays and returned to see Suraya every weekend.

She would give money to the family to care for Suraya in her absence, which was crucial since they weren’t fond of Saraswati (they had not agreed to Wijaya’s marriage) and found Suraya’s odd behavior off-putting and claims of ‘hearing voices’ potentially a sign of mental illness (which was fodder for them to demand even more money from Saraswati with the excuse that Suraya was a handful).

This routine continued until Saraswati was suddenly killed in a factory accident.

Suraya was nine.

The compensation for Saraswati’s death was enough for the family for only a few months and after it dried up, the neglect and abuse began. Though at times it was odd because Suraya seemed to know when they were in a bad mood and when they were looking for an outlet for their anger, and  the child would somehow almost always magically disappear during those times.

Then an agent claiming to be from the government came to see them.

He claimed he had heard about Suraya via their mother and wanted to inspect the child to see if they would qualify for a place in a ‘special school’ for ‘different’ children, and this had sounded tame enough to the family, who allowed him to see the shy, withdrawn little waif.

However Suraya immediately could tell what his true intentions were—-to have them locked up in a testing facility to figure out their ‘mutation’—-and attempted to run, only to be caught by his fellow officers outside the home.

The family was paid compensation for officially relinquishing Suraya’s care to the state, and did so without question, only relieved to be rid of their ‘burden’.

Suraya was taken to facility after facility in the state for the first few years to have a battery of tests, many painful, run on them to figure out their ‘special ability’ as an Outlier and to see if it could be replicated.

When they were in their early teens, they were transported overseas to a different facility as a bargaining chip for intel, tech and the like, coming into the ‘care’ of people who intended to use them as a government asset.

They never saw daylight except during transportation and they began to plan their escape as they studied the facility’s layout.

Their first attempt at escape didn’t go well however; they were caught, dragged back and had their eyes burned and blinded as punishment (at this point they had shown their handlers that their highly-enhanced hearing made them capable of navigating the world in total darkness, so said handlers didn’t not see this as ‘damaging the goods’).

If the handlers thought that the punishment would deter them however, it didn’t; Suraya just became more careful and subtle with the planning of their next attempt.

The second attempt came during a transport session where there were less guards and less access to tech to subdue them, though it came with a problem they did not plan for.

In their first attempt, they had tried escaping into the countryside. In this one, they hurled themselves out completely unprepared into a world louder than any world they had ever known; downtown London on a weekend.

The cacophony completely overwhelmed their senses and they barely managed to crawl-stumble into an alley as bounty hunters were enlisted to track them down.

It was here that they ran into one Ramiro Vasquez (Ravage) who was immediately concerned about their situation and once figuring out the nature of their distress, gave them his headphones to drown out the noise and kept them safe and hidden until the bounty hunters had left.

He then took Suraya back to the rented apartment he shared with Lara Soelberg (Laserbeak) and both agreed to let the waif stay with them for as long as they needed to be alright, and the three formed a little familial unit as Suraya grew deeply fond of the two Beast Men whom they saw as two of the most compassionate people in a horrible world.

Ramiro however understood that Suraya needed tutelage to properly harness and deal with their Outlier ability; having heard whispers of a secret Outlier school run Senator Sharifuddin Waseem (Shockwave) and knowing Sharifuddin as one of the few good men in the Senate, he decided to take the risk and confronted the Senator about the matter, promising to keep the secret a secret in return for helping out Suraya.

As it turned out the threats were not necessary, as Sharifuddin was genuinely  concerned for them and came to see them personally at the apartment. Initially,  Suraya was apprehensive about meeting someone else about their abilities, remembering full well how the first such meeting ended, but to their pleasant surprise, they detected no malice in Sharifuddin’s intentions; only the desire to help.

They agreed to enroll in Sharifuddin’s Outlier institute, coming back home to see Ramiro and Lara every weekend.

They excelled in their classes and soon mastered their ability and knew how to deal with the overstimulation that came from it, to the point where they could walk the streets with no problem.

In the wake of murders of Senators Nikomedes Momus and Gayathri Sharma, Suraya offered to become a spy for Sharifuddin, who was determined to solve the deaths, and Sharifuddin began bringing them to Senate meetings under the guise of them being his new aide.

They caught the eye of Senator Radbourne (RatBat) who seemed to pick up the fact that they were an Outlier, but rather than bring up the matter, requested that they work with him as well on.... matters regarding his constituents with disabilities.

Sharifuddin has his reservations about Radbourne and Suraya knew they were up to no good and both agreed to the arrangement so Suraya could dig up more information about them.

As it turned out, Radbourne was dirty as dirty as politicians came, but he had nothing to do with the murders. Rather, he was mostly preoccupied with an individual named Morgan Trayton (Megatron), the same individual whom Omar Parvez (Orion Pax)  a friend of Sharifuddin’s, had mentioned as a great writer.

Radbourne asked Suraya to track down Morgan with an offer the man hopefully wouldn’t refuse and Suraya, intrigued about this man with what they’d heard about him from Omar, agreed to do so.

They found Morgan in a vast underground fighting ring in Moscow, and after voicing some skepticism about him walking his written talk, he allowed them to peek into his mind to see how genuine and committed he was to his cause, and it took them aback for a bit to meet someone who despite being mired in tragedy, had Sharifuddin’s desire to make a better world and the iron will to back it up.

They pledged themself to be among the first members of Morgan’s rising revolution (which was aided by Omar spreading his writings through an underground press) and told them about Radbourne’s offer to supply weapons and augmentations to increase profits from the pitfighting racket.

Morgan agreed if only to use these exact items against the Senate once he’d acquired an army.

It was during this time with Morgan that they also met Ramsey (Rumble) and Friedel (Frenzy), a pair of dwarf miners who the man had been friends with for years, and almost immediately got along with their boisterous, gregarious natures. 

They continued to be Radbourne’s liaison with Megatron until the start of the Clampdown when they watched Morgan kill the owner of the Pit, free those who wanted their freedom and take those who were loyal to him to meet with Sharifuddin to formally establish a rebellion.

It was about this time that Suraya found out that Radbourne had been conducting illegal experiments on Beast Men, something they took grave offense to, and they kept mining Radbourne for more information about where the experiments were taking place.

Upon finding out, they personally hunted down Radbourne as Stefan Scavarro (Starscream) initiated the Senate massacre to Radbourne’s labs, where he tried to fight them off only to finally find out the true extent of their abilities.

Badly-injured, his attempt at stopping them from freeing the captive Beast Men—-his “property” as he would yell at them—-ended up with him hurled into a genetic splicing pod (commissioned from a ‘Mesothulas’) which he accidentally activated.

The process twisted him into a Rat-Bat-human hybrid, and rather than kill him, Suraya decided to leave the option to the Beast Men he tortured for profit in what they saw as poetic justice.

After those who wanted vengeance were done with Radbourne, Suraya gave the  Beast Men the option of leaving free or coming with them to be a part of Morgan’s revolution which would ensure that they were never mistreated and ostracized by the larger world again.

Two of the Beast Men took up the offer; Bastien Saville (Buzzsaw) and Gan Go-eun (Glit).

When Morgan, confident in Suraya’s abilities asked them  to establish their own division focussed on spying and intel gathering, Suraya chose Ramiro, Lara, Ramsey, Friedel and Bastien to work alongside them.

While Suraya occasionally questions Morgan’s actions, two things they have never questioned are his dedication to his cause and the compassion he shows to those they care for, and it’s enough for them to consider themself a true Decepticon till the day his objectives are achieved.

[indiejones]

INDIES TOP 536 BOLLYWOOD SINGERS OF ALL TIME !

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Hereby presenting the much awaited Indies All-Time Greatest Bollywood Singers compile !

Most in Top 10 with a song collection in the ten thousands to several thousands range each, thru the eras, barring a few of pre-independence yore.

Thus hitting upon the perfect mix of substance, style, old traditional classical, semi-traditional transitional, & new world razmatazz !

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TOCHI 

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RADHARANI 

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MADHURA SHANTARAM 

LALITA DEULKAR 

JUTHIKA ROY

VANMALA

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NITIN MUKESH 

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SHYAMA HEMADY 

PUSHPA PAGDHARE 

MOHD FAROOQUI 

JIKKI 

YASHWANT BHATT

PANKAJ MULLICK

SUHASINI KOLHAPURE

RENUKA DEVI 

AMAR 

ASHOK KUMAR

MASTER MOHAMMAD

CHITALKAR 

BALWANT SINGH

SUSHEELA RANI 

RANU MUKHERJEE

DWIJEN MUKHERJEE

BELA MUKHERJEE

H. FARUQUI

K.C. DEY 

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MASTER VASANT

MISTER SHEIKH 

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KALYANI DAS 

SUMATI

SUHAS 

SUNANDA KAMAT 

SNEHPRABHA PRADHAN

MISS KALYANI

PUTUL CHATTERJEE 

NAZIRA

RAVINDRA SATHE

MUMTAZ

NALINI MULGANVKAR

RAM PUNJWANI

SUMAN PUROHIT

PARO DEVI 

MADHUSUDAN

NARGIS BANO 

SUNILA DAS GUPTA

SUPRAVA SARKAR 

P.B.SRINIVAS 

VIMAL SARDESAI

RAJ KAPOOR

MUNIR ALAM 

KAMAL DAS 

MOHANA 

RATNA MALKANI

SRINATH TRIPATHI

LEELA MEHTA 

SURINDER KAUR 

DEEDAR PARDESI 

QADIR FAREEDI

MISS GULAB

INDIRA MANCHANDA

BRIJMALA 

VASANTI M.

M. SHARIF QAWWAL 

CHANCHAL KUMARI

SNEHAL BHATKAR

SANTRAM

SHYAM SUNDAR 

SHYAM KUMAR

KANTI LAL 

CHANDRASHEKHAR GADGIL 

ANIKA RIZVI 

RAJNI

KARAN DEWAN 

BHARTI

SHAMIM 

ABU BAKAR

AFZAL HUSSAIN 

GAUHAR SULTANA 

BALAKRAM 

SHYAMA SHARMA

CHAUBEY MAHARAJ

SHRADDHA PANDIT 

KAMLA SISTA 

SARDAR AKHTAR

MASTER GOPAL

DILRAJ KAUR 

SARDAR MANSUR 

TARABAI LUCKNAWI

S.L.PURI 

DHUMI KHAN 

BECHU DUTT 

ANIMA DASGUPTA

BIMLA KUMARI 

AMROZIYA BEGUM

NARAYAN

SHANTI SHARMA

PADMA DEVI 

PANDIT WAMANRAO 

KAMAL DASGUPTA

SUPRAVA GHOSH 

MISS IQBAL

HASHMAT 

MEERA

SHYAMLAL MITRA 

GOHAR MAMAJWALA

RAMA SHUKUL

SITARA DEVI 

BHOLA SHRESHTA

ISHWARLAL

MEEENAKSHI 

BEGUM AKHTAR

GIRISH

JAGMOHAN 

SABITA BANERJEE

PANDIT KRISHNARAO CHONKAR

RAJKUMARI

NASEEM AKHTAR

RAM SAIGAL

BEENA KUMARI

GOVIND GOPAL 

MASTER SONIK

SRINIVAS 

FEROZA BEGUM

KUSUM MANTRI

KARIMDAD KHAN

MUMTAZ ALI 

SHANTA THAKUR 

SATYA CHOWDHURY 

HAMIDA BANO

BABY ALKA 

USHA TIMOTHY 

RAMA DEVI 

SHOBHA BADRINATH 

BADRINATH VYAS

RAMCHANDRA PAL

P KRISHNA GOYAL

BIBBO

KAMAL BAROT

GANDHARI 

PRATAP 

LEELA CHITNIS

LEELA CHANDRAGIRI 

RAFIQ AHMED

VISHNUPANT PAGNIS 

PANDIT JASRAJ 

MISS KAMLA

ILA ARUN 

MEENA MANGESHKAR

NEENU MAJUMDAR

RASHIDA KHATOON

K. SUNDARAMMA 

RANIBALA 

MISS MOTI

PATANJAL

NARENDRA CHANCHAL 

ANJALI DEVI

MOLINA DEVI 

SHAMO 

SHARDA 

PADMA BANERJEE 

A.R.OJHA 

ARUN 

VEENA KUMARI

PRITAM 

VIJAY BENEDICT

SITARABAI KANPURI 

YASHWANT BALAKRISHNA JOSHI

RAMOLA 

SATISH BATRA 

RADHARANI BOMBAYWALI 

ANGUR BALA

BELA SAVER 

MISS ROSE 

C.S. RAGI

SUPRITI GHOSH 

KHAYYAM 

HUSN BANU 

AKBAR KHAN DURRANI PESHAWARI

MALKA AMIR JAAN

USTAD AMIR KHAN

ANURADHA 

ANEES KHATOON

MASTER AVINASH

MUKHTAR BEGUM 

REHMAT BANO 

ARUN KUMAR 

SATISH 

ARUN KUMAR MUKHERJI

REHMAT BAI 

HEERA KUMARI 

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MENKA BAI

KISHORE SAHU

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IQBAL BIBI

VATSALA KUMTHEKAR

ZUBEIDA KHANUM

VIJAY KUMAR

BABY VIMAL

LAXMI ROY 

JAGJIT KAUR 

RAJA GUL

NOOR MOHD CHARLIE

KRISHNA KALLE 

JATIN PANDIT 

ASHIMA BANERJEE 

INDUBALA DEVI

APARESH LAHIRI

SUSHIL SAHU

SHAKTI T 

AZIZ NAZAN

RAJAN-SAJAN

SAPAN CHAKRABORTY

PANDYA

JANI BABU

PREMPAL 

GHULAM MOHAMMED 

BULO C. RANI

BHUSHAN MEHTA

LAXMI SHANKAR

KUSUM MANTRI

PANKAJ UDHAS

K.P.SEN 

MUKHERJEE

SURAIYA

JAMUNA RANI 

JAYWANT KULKARNI

MEENAKSHI SHIRODKAR 

RAVINDRA JAIN

ANIL BISWAS

KUSUM MANTRI

AMIT KUMAR

USHA KHANNA

SHAILENDRA SINGH

ANAND KUMAR

C. PAPON

M.G. SHREEKUMAR

VISHNILAL

SURESH (chal chal re naujawan)

MUMTAZ BEGUM 

SARLA DEVI 

VIDYANATH SETH

G.M.DURRANI 

PUSHPA HANS

LALITA RAO

RAMOLA

FAKIR MOHAMMED 

NALINI JAYWANT

YUSUF EFENDI 

PARVATI KHAN 

S.D. BATISH

S. BALBIR 

MEENA KAPOOR 

B.N.BALI 

SALMA 

KANTA KUMARI

ARUN BAKSHI

SAPNA MUKHERJEE 

P.BHANUMATI 

SHANKAR DASGUPTA

DILSHAD BEGUM

UMRAO ZIA 

S.N.TRIPATHI 

MINU PURUSHOTTAM

PINAKIN SHAH

ISHU 

ASHA POSLEY

GULSHAN SOOFI

SHANTI KUMAR DESAI

JAHANARA KAJJAN 

SONA CHATTERJEE

BHIMSEN JOSHI

ISMAIL AZAD QAWWAL

IQBAL SIDDIQUI 

HARISH BHARDWAJ

NIRMALA DEVI 

MARUTI RAO

DILSHAD BEGUM

CHITRAGUPT

RAM MARATHE

PARESH BANERJEE 

USHA BALSAWAR

SHAUKAT 

MANAS MUKHERJEE

SUNDARA BAI 

AFZAL LAHORI 

VITTHAL

MANSOOR 

SAVITA 

PEENAZ MASANI

LAISH RAM MEMA

BHARAT VYAS

SHEELA SHIRODKAR

SHEELA 

GOHAR MAMAJIWALA

MOHANTARA

LEELA SAWANT 

MANJU

RAM PYARI

SAGARIKA MUKHERJEE

KRISHNA GANGULY

SHARDA GANGULY

SHANKAR - SHAMBHU 

RAZIA BEGUM

SIDDHESHWAR MUKHERJEE

DEV KUMAR 

IKHLAQ AHMED

KESARI

SHEELA MITRA

AMRITLAL 

YAKUB 

KUMAR (jeevan naiyya, 1946)

USTAD AMANAT ALI 

FIROZE DASTUR 

PARVEZ KAPADIA

SUDHIR PHADKE 

SHANTA KUNWAR

MUNAWWAR SULTANA

UTPALA SEN

MITHU MIYAN

SHABNAM 

VASANTRAO DESHPANDE

SHOBHA JOSHI

ASHIMA BANERJEE

GHULAM HAIDER

IRA NIGAM

MENKA

SUNDAR

ROHINI ROY

SHYAMA BAI 

PEARU MASTER 

MASTER DEEN 

AHINDRA CHOUDHARY

SUMATI TRILOKEKAR

K. DEEP

SHAMINDER 

VANMALA 

SHEETAL GHOSH

LALITA PARULKAR

UMAKANT 

MRINAL GHOSH

SADHANA BOSE

NEENA B.S.

B.S.NANAJI 

SHANTA APTE

LEELA WARSI

AKHTARIBAI FAIZABADI

MANIK VERMA

S. MOHINDER 

MANMOHAN SINGH

ZAHOOR RAJA 

SURESH RAJVANSHI

POORNA SETH

BABY TARA

MUBARAK BEGUM

T.A.MOTI 

ZAWAR HUSSAIN

ANIMA GHOSH

AMBAR KUMAR

ERUCH TARAPORE

NARESH BHATTACHARYA

SUDHA KARMASE

NARAIN DUTT

RATTANBAI 

SURINDER KOHLI 

MIR ALI 

BANDE HASAN QAWWAL

VINOD

MINAAL WAGH

SHARMA 

NIAMAT ALI

RANGNATH JADHAV QAWWAL

SAROJ WELINGKAR

G.M.SAJAN 

GOVIND KURWALIKAR 

MALA BEGUM

MINATI SARKAR

MOTI 

MALTI PANDEY

SHEIKH ADAM

CHAUDHARY 

SADAT KHAN

SUNIL KUMAR

SHRIDHAR PARSEKAR

KRISHNA RAO

HEERA SAWANT

VIMAL VAKADE

ASHITA BOSE

HARIMATI 

AZIZ HINDI

MEENA KUMARI

AGHA

FAIZBAI

PROTIMA DASGUPTA

RAMESH GUPTA

JAYASHREE

VASANT DESAI

MOTILAL

SURESH BABU MANE

SARDAR MANSOOR

MAZHAR KHAN

MULIA

PATGAONKAR

POPATLAL

DURGESH KUMARI

SABITA DEVI

N. M. ADHIKARI

BABY SUMAN

HARISH

LEELA DESAI

JYOTI

SHANTA HUBLIKAR

SHAHU MODAK

DURGA KHOTE

NASEEM BANU

SARITA DEVI

WAHEEDAN BAI

MADHURI

ASHRAF KHAN

VIMLA

SHARDA PANDIT (eg baghban 1938)

E.G.PADGAONKAR

SADIQ ALI

AHMED DILAWAR

ALAUDDIN NAVEED

RENU

MEENAKSHI

REKHA MALLICK

BINOTA BOSE

MAJI

SARITA KHARWAL

RANJANA

BABY SHAKUNTALA

SHAUKAT ALI

BABY ANU

KAVI PRADEEP

SUNITA DEVI

SARASWATI DEVI

CHANDRAPRABHA

MASTER NISSAR

ZILLOO

.LALLUBHAI NAYAK

P.F.PITHAWALA

RANJIT RAI

SUSHILA

PREM ADIB

[filmforwomen]

hello do you have any recommendations for lgbt documentaries to watch this month?

hi! yes i do:

Mala Mala dir by Antonio Santini, Dan Sickles

Southern Comfort (2001) dir by Kate Davis

To Be Takei (2014) dir by Jennifer M. Kroot

A Jihad for Love (2007) dir by Parvez Sharma

The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) dir by Rob Epstein

A Secret Love (2020) dir by  Chris Bolan

Kumu Hina (2014) dir by Joe Wilson, Dean Hamer

Fast Trip, Long Drop (1993) dir by Gregg Bordowitz

How To Survive A Plague(2012) dir by  David France

The Case Against 8 (2014) dir by  Ben Cotner, Ryan White 

For the Bible Tells Me So (2007) dir by  Daniel G. Karslake 

Gay Sex in the 70s (2005) dir by  Joseph Lovett

The Celluloid Closet (1995) dir by  Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

Pride Divide (1998) dir by  Paris Poirier

We Were Here (2010) dir by David Weissman

Paris is Burning (1990) dir by Jennie Livingston

[queercanas]

Filmmaker Parvez Sharma travels into the secretive world of homosexuality within the Islamic faith. He interviews those who try to reconcile their faith with the ban on gays and lesbians, attempting to walk a fine line between persecution and honesty. Religious leaders who are unequivocal on the subject are also interviewed and take a predictably hard-line stance. The subjects of the film choose to remain Muslims in countries where many others would flee.

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[thedailyexcelsior]

16 J&K Officers Inducted In IAS

16 J&K Officers Inducted In IAS

The Government of India on Wednesday inducted 16 officers of Jammu & Kashmir in the prestigious Indian Administrative Service (IAS) . According to a notification issued by the Government of India, Talat Parvez Iqbal Rohella,Ruksana Gani,Rehana Batul,Mir Tariq Ali, Amit Sharma, Nazim Zia Khan,Shakeel -Ul -Rehman Rather,Pradeep Kumar,Rahul Sharma, Narinder Singh Bali, Aijaz Ahmad Bhat, Hashmat Ali…