Marking LGBT+ History Month, Mumbai filmmaker’s LGBT+ film to screen in London

The UK & Europe’s largest South Asian film festival, the

London Indian Film Festival

is kicking its 2021 series of films and marking LGBT+ History Month with a screening of Sridhar Rangayan’s feature film ‘Evening

Shadows

’, a tender heart-warming story, set in a small town in Southern India, where a young man comes out to his mother and the upheaval it causes with the traditional family and society around it.

The sensitively handled film, directed by award winning Indian filmmaker and gay activist Sridhar Rangayan, underlines the challenges gay men continue to face in India to come out to their family, as well as question the dominant patriarchal social mores. The film has won 24

international Awards

and has become a success on the international film festival circuit with selection in 72 international film festivals.

Sridhar, the director, said, “We feel triumphant that the film continues its successful festival journey three years since its

world premiere

in 2018 at Sydney’s Mardi Gras film festival. The film’s topic is surely as relevant as it was three years ago, and will continue to remain so till the time

homophobia

is not eradicated from every society in the world. ‘Evening Shadows’ offers a rainbow of hope not only for LGBT+ persons, but more importantly to their parents who struggle to come to terms with their children’s sexuality,” he added.


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