Films on Controversial subjects and intimate scenes have always been in the headlines. Some of the most controversial films include Fire, Girlfriend, I cant Think Straight, when Kiran Met Karen.
The initial reaction to Deepa Mehta’s Fire and Karan Razdan’s Girlfriend was violent. As for the first time Bollywood and Indian cinema in general faced some truth that is part of real life. The intimate scenes involving Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das invited huge criticism from all over. Similarly, Isha Koppikar and Amrita Arora’s love making scene in Girlfriend invited lot of unwanted attention from the political parties. The opposition to both the films affected the film’s business tremendously.
But it seems slowly the times are changing. People are eager to see these movies and in the underworld market of movie clips and sex movies, lesbian movies are the hottest topic and commodity of Indian cities and villages.
Another actress who has experimented with various roles is Lisa Ray. Lisa acted in box office average grossers like Kasoor and cross over movies like Hollywood Bollywood. The pretty model-turned-actress essayed the role of a lesbian in an English movie called I can’t think straight.
When Kiran Met Karen is another film which depicted had a lesbian theme to it. It is an English language Bollywood film dealing with the subject of lesbianism. The film explores lesbianism as it is encapsulated by the canvas of South Asian conservatism, lifestyle and existence. It is the story of a rising Bollywood star Kiran Lohar, who discovers something about herself only after encountering lesbian journalist Karen Sorens.
Not only lesbian films we have also witnessed many Bollywood actresses kissing on promotional events of the films. A lip lock was witnessed between Rani Mukherjee and Vidya Balan during the promotions of ‘No One Killed Jessica’. Similarly a similar scenario was witnessed when Rani was seen too close to Bollywood bombshell Katrina Kaif. Similarly we have also seen a kiss was also seen between Kalki Koechlin and Keerti Kulkarni Shaitan’s song.
Thus we can Bollywood has made different films on lesbian genre and some of the actresses kissing their female stars. We wonder till which level this controversial genre goes.
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