We hardly get a sensitive portrayal of the LGBT community in India. Either they are too corny, or they are straight-up homophobic. When we are finally getting movies like Ajeeb Daastaans, Aligarh, Cobalt Blue, and more, we start getting comments from people who are supposed to be sensitive before making a statement.
But Ameesha Patel has made a statement that is homophobic in every layer. Once famous, Ameesha Patel is promoting her upcoming film Gadar 2. While giving an interview during the same, she questioned the excessive LGBT portrayal on OTT.
She said: “People are waiting for good, clean cinema. The era where you could make cinema that a grandchild could sit and watch with a grandparent is completely missing. OTT for sure doesn’t give you that. Because OTT is full of, homosexuality, gay-lesbianism… Scenes that you have to cover your kids’ eyes or actually put a child lock on your television so they can’t access those platforms. It’s not something you really want your kids to watch. Indians couldn’t travel that much, we didn’t have that much fashion. Everything that you wanted was through cinema… We didn’t even have an organised music industry. You depended on film music; costumes, fashion, everything came from cinema, and I think people are missing that essence. Gadar, they feel, is an answer to that.”
Do you agree with her statement?