96-452: The KASHISH Pride Film Festival (earlier known as KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival , also known as Mumbai International Queer Film Festival and Mumbai Queer Film Festival ) is an annual LGBTQ event that has been held in Mumbai , India , since 2010. The film festival screens gay , lesbian , bisexual , transgender and queer films from India and around the world. It
192-459: A slur , as well as those who wish to dissociate themselves from queer radicalism , and those who see it as amorphous and trendy. Some younger people feel queer is a more politically charged, more powerful term than LGBT . In a 2018 U.S. study, about 1 in 5 LGBTQ people identified as "queer". SGM , or GSM , an abbreviation for sexual and gender minorities , has gained particular currency in government, academia, and medicine. GSRM
288-466: A "P" for " polyamorous " or " pangender ", an "H" for " HIV-affected ", or an "O" for "other". The initialism LGBTIH has seen use in India to encompass the hijra third gender identity and the related subculture. Adding the term allies to the initialism has sparked controversy, with some seeing the inclusion of ally in place of asexual/aromantic/agender as a form of LGBT erasure . There
384-455: A "TS", "2S", or "2" for " two-spirit " persons; or an "SA" for " straight allies ". The inclusion of straight allies in the LGBT initialism has proven controversial, as many straight allies have been accused of using LGBT advocacy to gain popularity and status in recent years, and various LGBT activists have criticised the heteronormative worldview of certain straight allies. Some may also add
480-884: A Bachelor's degree in English in 2001. She was a student of the Modern High School for Girls. Sen Sharma made her debut as a child artist in the Bengali film Indira (1983). In 2001, she made her adult debut in the Bengali film Ek Je Aachhe Kanya , in which she played a negative character. This was followed by a role in Rituparno Ghosh 's acclaimed film Titli (2002), opposite Mithun Chakraborty and her mother Aparna Sen. These films earned her critical acclaim and helped her gain notice in Bengali cinema . "What's special about her performance as Meenakshi Iyer
576-599: A commercial failure at the box-office. In 2017, she ventured into film direction with the English-language drama A Death in the Gunj , which starred an ensemble cast including Vikrant Massey and Kalki Koechlin . The film premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival and received widespread critical acclaim upon theatrical release. It won her the Filmfare Award for Best Debut Director and
672-417: A deficiency or a temporary state. Similarly, aromantic individuals lack romantic attraction to others, yet they can still forge profound emotional connections and strong bonds with people without the romantic component. Furthermore, agender individuals either have no gender identity or possess a neutral or genderless gender identity. Some people have mistakenly claimed the A stands for ally, but allies are not
768-493: A derogatory term originating in hate speech and reject it, especially among older members of the community. Many variants of the term LGBT exist, such as the more inclusive LGBT+ and variations that change the order of the letters or include additional letters. At least some of the components of sexuality (regarding hetero, bi, straight), and also gender are stated to be on different spectrums of sexuality . Other common variants also exist, such as LGBTQIA , with
864-597: A fifth nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress. However, the film emerged as a commercial failure at the box-office. She followed it up with her portrayal of an lower-caste androgynous woman who develops feelings for her colleague in Neeraj Ghaywan 's Geeli Pucchi , a segment of the Netflix anthology film Ajeeb Daastaans . Her performance earned her high critical acclaim and won her
960-640: A lawyer in Neeraj Pathak's Right Yaa Wrong . The former emerged as a critical and commercial success, while the latter emerged as a disaster critically and commercially. The same year, she finished shooting for Rituparno Ghosh 's unreleased comedy Sunglass and Vinay Shukla 's comedy-drama Mirch , a critical and commercial failure. Sen Sharma began 2011 with a special appearance in Vishal Bhardwaj 's black comedy 7 Khoon Maaf alongside Priyanka Chopra and Vivaan Shah . She then played
1056-450: A marginalized group and mentions of A for ally have regularly sparked controversy as a form of LGBT erasure . The initialisms LGBT or GLBT are not agreed to by everyone that they encompass. For example, some argue that transgender and transsexual causes are not the same as that of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people. This argument centers on the idea that being transgender or transsexual has to do more with gender identity, or
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#17327875794311152-467: A mentally-ill woman, which also earned her critical praise, despite the film's commercial failure. Sen Sharma was next offered the lead role in Mira Nair 's Hollywood drama The Namesake (2007), but owing to clashing dates with other films, she could not commit to the project. Following a critically-acclaimed performance as a mentally-ill woman in the drama 15 Park Avenue (2006), she portrayed
1248-458: A middle-aged village woman who unknowlingly becomes a pawn in her husband's scheme in Vishal Bhardwaj 's crime drama Omkara (2006). Starring an ensemble cast of Ajay Devgn , Kareena Kapoor , Saif Ali Khan , Vivek Oberoi and Bipasha Basu alongside Sen Sharma, the film opened to widespread critical acclaim, with high praise for her performance. However, due to its dark theme and strong language which kept away family audiences, it emerged as
1344-566: A middle-class woman struggling with societal expectations. It released on Netflix to mixed reviews, but earned her (and Pednekar) a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress (Critics) . Her next project, titled Scholarship , alongside Kalki Koechlin is in pre-production. In 2021, her first film appearance was as a woman who loses her father in Seema Pahwa 's directorial debut, the ensemble family comedy-drama Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi . The film opened to critical acclaim, and earned her
1440-487: A moderate commercial success the box-office. Her performance in the film earned her the National Film Award and the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her next release was the suspense thriller Deadline: Sirf 24 Ghante (2006), which was a critical and commercial disaster. The same year, she made her directorial debut with an 18-minute Bengali short film titled Naamkoron (Naming Ceremony) for
1536-615: A nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Film (Critics) . Additionally, she also won the Best Director award at the New York Indian Film Festival and the MAMI Film Festival . The same year, she also starred in the ensemble black comedy-drama Lipstick Under My Burkha directed by Alankrita Shrivastava . Revolving around the secret lives of four women who are in search of their freedom,
1632-527: A person's understanding of being or not being a man or a woman irrespective of their sexual orientation. LGB issues can be seen as a matter of sexual orientation or attraction. These distinctions have been made in the context of political action in which LGB goals, such as same-sex marriage legislation and human rights work (which may not include transgender and intersex people), may be perceived to differ from transgender and transsexual goals. A belief in "lesbian and gay separatism" (not to be confused with
1728-538: A result, her performance in Aaja Nachle is fearless and uninhibited." Laaga Chunari Mein Daag emerged as a below-average grosser, while Aaja Nachle emerged as a commercial failure at the box-office. In 2008, she starred in the critically and commercially unsuccessful romantic comedy Dil Kabaddi . She next appeared in a short film ( How Can It Be? ) directed by Mira Nair for a film project called 8 , which
1824-687: A second consecutive Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress. In the latter half of 2007, Sen Sharma starred in two films under the Yash Raj Films banner – the women-centric drama Laaga Chunari Mein Daag and the musical drama Aaja Nachle . She noted her excitement toward these two projects as these were the first films in which she had to lip sync for songs. Pradeep Sarkar 's Laaga Chunari Mein Daag saw her star alongside an ensemble cast of Jaya Bachchan , Rani Mukerji , Anupam Kher , Kunal Kapoor and Abhishek Bachchan . The film tackled themes of duty, sacrifice and morality. She portrayed
1920-511: A term used primarily in scientific contexts, has at times carried negative connotations in the United States. Gay became a popular term in the 1970s. As lesbians forged more public identities, the phrase gay and lesbian became more common. A dispute as to whether the primary focus of their political aims should be feminism or gay rights led to the dissolution of some lesbian organizations, including Daughters of Bilitis , which
2016-508: A way of distinguishing themselves from what they regard as white -dominated LGBT communities. In public health settings, MSM (" men who have sex with men ") is clinically used to describe men who have sex with other men without referring to their sexual orientation, with WSW (" women who have sex with women ") also used as an analogous term. MVPFAFF is an abbreviation for Māhū , Vakasalewa , Palopa , Fa'afafine , Akava'ine , Fakaleitī (Leiti), and Fakafifine . This term
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#17327875794312112-602: Is a spiritual successor of Life in a... Metro (2007), with her being the only actor from the original to also star in the second part, albeit in a different role. Depicting the stories of bittersweet relationships in a contemporary setting, exploring various aspects, hues, and moods of love, it is set to release in 2024. She will also star alongside Ronit Roy in Preetam Mukherjee's mystery film Bioscope . Sen Sharma started dating actor and co-star Ranvir Shorey in 2007. The couple got married on 3 September 2010 in
2208-505: Is also the acronym QUILTBAG (queer and questioning, unsure, intersex, lesbian, transgender and two-spirit, bisexual, asexual and aromantic, and gay and genderqueer). Similarly LGBTIQA+ stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer/questioning, asexual and many other terms (such as non-binary and pansexual)". In Canada , the community is sometimes identified as LGBTQ2 (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and two spirit). Depending on which organization
2304-719: Is also used to include romantic minorities such as aromanticism . In New Zealand, New Zealand Human Rights Commission uses "Rights of Sexual and Gender Minorities" to discuss LGBT rights. In India, the Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court of India , when decriminalizing homosexuality in the case of Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India (2018) , said: Individuals belonging to sexual and gender minorities experience discrimination, stigmatization, and, in some cases, denial of care on account of their sexual orientation and gender identity. However, it
2400-503: Is an initialism for lesbian , gay , bisexual , transgender and queer or questioning . It is an umbrella term , broadly referring to all sexualities , romantic orientations , and gender identities which are not heterosexual , heteroromantic , or cisgender . In the 1990s, gay, lesbian, and bisexual activists adopted the term LGB , supplanting narrower terms such as "gay or lesbian". Terminology eventually shifted to LGBT , as transgender people became more accepted within
2496-554: Is important to note that 'sexual and gender minorities' do not constitute a homogenous group, and experiences of social exclusion, marginalization, and discrimination, as well as specific health needs, vary considerably. Nevertheless, these individuals are united by one factor - that their exclusion, discrimination and marginalization is rooted in societal heteronormativity and society's pervasive bias towards gender binary and opposite-gender relationships, which marginalizes and excludes all non-heteronormative sexual and gender identities. In
2592-528: Is inclusive of "those who may not self-identify as LGBT ... or those who have a specific medical condition affecting reproductive development". A publication from the White House Office of Management and Budget states, "We believe that SGM is more inclusive, because it includes persons not specifically referenced by the identities listed in LGBT." A UK government paper favors SGM because initials like LGBTIQ+ stand for terms that, especially outside
2688-513: Is inspired by the short story written by her father Mukul Sharma. It opened to positive reviews from critics upon release, with Sen Sharma's performance receiving high praise in particular, earning her fourth nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress. The film emerged as a moderate commercial success at the box-office. She also starred in Aparna Sen's horror comedy Goynar Baksho which earned her critical acclaim and won her
2784-449: Is intended as a term encompassing all sexual- and gender-minorities. For some indigenous people , two-spirit invokes a combination of identities, including sexual, gender, cultural, and spiritual. Some people advocate the term "minority sexual and gender identities" (MSGI, coined in 2000) for the purpose of explicitly including all people who are not cisgender and heterosexual or "gender, sexual, and romantic minorities" (GSRM), which
2880-416: Is more explicitly inclusive of minority romantic orientations , but those have not been widely adopted either. Other rare umbrella terms are Gender and Sexual Diversities (GSD), MOGII (Marginalized Orientations, Gender Identities, and Intersex) and MOGAI (Marginalized Orientations, Gender Alignments and Intersex). SGL ( same gender loving ) is sometimes favored among gay male African Americans as
2976-424: Is natural to the core and the best part is, she's so effortless. Here's another winning performance from this incredible performer!" The New York Times wrote, "Ms. Sen Sharma has made a specialty of characters like Aisha: independent urban women, whose dreams involve careers as well as love. Her Aisha is a nuanced creation — ambitious, sympathetic, believable — and Mr. Mukerji, making his directing debut,
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3072-622: Is not the effort she put into it as much as the apparent lack of it. [...] Be it her squabbling with the urbane photographer Jehangir Chaudhary or her gently reprimanding him about how her name is pronounced (It's Mee-naa-kshi not Minakshi) or even when she is screaming at her infant, you believe it's Meenakshi you´ve met. And therein lies the key to her iconic performance." — Filmfare on Sen Sharma's performance in Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002) In 2002, she achieved her breakthrough in Indian cinema with
3168-404: Is organized by KASHISH Arts Foundation, in association with Solaris Pictures . KASHISH Pride Film Festival has, in its attempt to mainstream queer visibility, engages a jury panel to judge the award categories. The jury has consisted of actors, directors, critics, theater and media personalities and festival curators from India and abroad. Wendell Rodricks , celebrity fashion designer, has been
3264-464: Is primarily known for her work in independent films, in addition to working in mainstream films. Making her debut as a child artist in the film Indira (1983), Sen Sharma had her first leading role as an adult in the Bengali thriller Ek Je Aachhe Kanya (2000). She gained notice with the English-language film Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002), directed by her mother, which won her the National Film Award for Best Actress . She forayed into Hindi cinema with
3360-578: Is right to let her run away with the film." The film emerged as a commercial success at the box-office, grossing ₹471 million worldwide. In June 2009, Sen Sharma starred onstage first time at Atul Kumar's The Blue Mug alongside Rajat Kapoor , Vinay Pathak , Ranvir Shorey and Sheeba Chadha . In 2010, the play was toured around the nation and abroad. In 2010, Sen Sharma starred as a working woman in Ashwani Dheer's comedy Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge alongside Ajay Devgan and Paresh Rawal . and as
3456-566: Is the Festival Patron. Celina Jaitly was the Festival Ambassador till 2020. The advisory board of the festival is composed of eminent personalities like Aruna Raje Patil, Dolly Thakore , Meghna Ghai Puri, Onir , Renuka Shahane , Roy Wadia and Viveck Vaswani . In the past years Nandini Sardesai, Shernaz Patel and Jenni Olson (USA) also served on the advisory board. Some of the chief guests and guests of honour at
3552-679: Is using the abbreviation, the choice of initialism changes. Businesses and the CBC often simply employ LGBT as a proxy for any longer abbreviation, private activist groups often employ LGBTQ+ , whereas public health providers favour the more inclusive LGBT2Q+ to accommodate twin spirited indigenous peoples . For a time, the Pride Toronto organization used the much lengthier initialism LGBTTIQQ2SA , but appears to have dropped this in favour of simpler wording. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
3648-709: Is voted as one of the top five LGBT film festivals in the world. 2009 was a historic year for the LGBTQ movement in India. On 2 July 2009, the Delhi High Court court ruling decriminalised homosexual intercourse between consenting adults and judged Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code to be conflicting with the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution of India . This brought a respite to
3744-567: The 2008 Noida double murder case . The film premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival to widespread critical acclaim with high praise directed towards her performance; moreover, the film also emerged as a sleeper hit at the box-office. In the same year she played Nayantara in a short film, Nayantara's Necklace . In 2016, Sharma portrayed a cop in AR Murugadoss ' action thriller Akira , alongside Sonakshi Sinha , which received mixed reviews from critics, and emerged as
3840-613: The Filmfare Award Bangla for Best Actress . In 2015, Sen Sharma starred in the Bengali film Kadambari as Kadambari Devi , Tagore's sister-in-law and also portrayed Lakshmi Das, the wife of Gour Hari Das, an Odisha freedom fighter who spent 32 years attempting to convince the government of his patriotism in the biographical film Gour Hari Dastaan . The same year, she played a character based on Nupur Talwar in Meghna Gulzar 's thriller drama Talvar , based on
3936-785: The Filmfare OTT Award for Best Actress in a Web Original Film, and the Best Actress in a Leading Role award at the Asian Academy Creative Awards Grand Finals. She next appeared as the Social Services Director of a general hospital in the Amazon Prime medical drama web series Mumbai Diaries 26/11 . Directed by Nikkhil Advani , the series was set in the emergency room of a government hospital, focusing on
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4032-612: The Global North , are "not necessarily inclusive of local understandings and terms used to describe sexual and gender minorities". An example of usage outside the Global North is the Constitution of Nepal , which identifies "gender and sexual minorities" as a protected class. In Canada especially, the term 2SLGBTQ+ is seen, with the first two characters standing for two-spirit ; the whole term stands for two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and questioning, and
4128-490: The I standing for intersex and the A standing for asexual , aromantic , or agender , and LGBTQIA+ , where "the '+' represents those who are part of the community, but for whom LGBTQ does not accurately capture or reflect their identity". Longer initialisms have been criticized as confusing or unwieldy, sometimes being referred to as " alphabet soup ", and mocked with labels such as LGBTQWERTY , LGBTQXYZ , and alphabet mafia . The implication that
4224-426: The coming-of-age comedy-drama Wake Up Sid opposite Ranbir Kapoor . The film told the story of a careless rich college brat who is taught the value of owning up to responsibility by an aspiring writer from Kolkata , the latter portrayed by Sen Sharma. It received widespread critical acclaim upon release, with high praise directed towards her performance. Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama wrote, "Sen Sharma
4320-446: The essentialist view that they had been born homosexual and used the descriptor lesbian to define sexual attraction often considered the separatist opinions of lesbian-feminists to be detrimental to the cause of gay rights. Bisexual and transgender people also sought recognition as legitimate categories within the larger minority community. In the late 1970s and the early 1980s, after the elation of change following group action in
4416-466: The noir film Traffic Signal which marked her second collaboration with Bhandarkar. Her performance, like the film, earned positive reviews; however, it emerged as a commercial failure at the box-office. She next starred alongside an ensemble cast including Shilpa Shetty , Kay Kay Menon , Irrfan Khan and Kangana Ranaut in Anurag Basu 's urban drama Life in a... Metro . The film depicted
4512-681: The 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City , some gays and lesbians became less accepting of bisexual or transgender people. Critics said that transgender people were acting out stereotypes , and bisexuals were simply gay men or lesbian women who were afraid to come out and be honest about their identity. Each community has struggled to develop its own identity including whether, and how, to align with other gender and sexuality-based communities, at times excluding other subgroups; these conflicts continue to this day. LGBTQ activists and artists have created posters to raise consciousness about
4608-424: The English-language drama Mr. and Mrs. Iyer , directed by Aparna Sen opposite Rahul Bose . The film told the story of two strangers during a fateful bus journey amidst the carnages of a communal strife in India. It performed moderately well at the box-office, but earned widespread critical acclaim from domestic and international critics upon release. Sen Sharma's performance as a Tamil housewife and her mastery of
4704-606: The Indian LGBT community that has been repressed and marginalized. This also led to open celebrations by LGBT persons including pride parades in many of the metros. This was followed by the relaunch of India's first gay magazine, Bombay Dost . The Indian Election Commission decided to recognize transgender as a separate category. All these activities brought media focus and visibility to the LGBTQ community in India. KASHISH Pride Film Festival took this movement forward through
4800-549: The Ismat Chughtai Award For Best Indian Woman Filmmaker is an attempt by KASHISH to acknowledge and encourage Indian women filmmakers to tell path-breaking narratives infused with progressive, positive viewpoints. Instituted in the memory of author Dr. Arvind Vaman Kulkarni. Instituted in memory of Aditya Nanda. LGBTQ LGBTQ (also commonly seen as LGBT , LGBT+ , LGBTQ+ , and LGBTQIA+ )
4896-496: The Kala Ghoda Film Festival. Following this, she starred alongside Prosenjit Chatterjee in the Bengali drama Dosar , directed by Rituporno Ghosh . The film premiered at several international film festivals and emerged as a sleeper hit at the box-office. Her performance in the film won her the Best Actress award at the New York Indian Film Festival . She began 2007 by portraying a street prostitute in
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#17327875794314992-703: The LGBT category to create an LGBTI community. Some intersex people prefer the initialism LGBTI , while others would rather that they not be included as part of the term. Emi Koyama describes how inclusion of intersex in LGBTI can fail to address intersex-specific human rights issues, including creating false impressions "that intersex people's rights are protected" by laws protecting LGBT people, and failing to acknowledge that many intersex people are not LGBT. Organisation Intersex International Australia states that some intersex individuals are same-sex attracted, and some are heterosexual, but "LGBTI activism has fought for
5088-712: The Netflix anthology film Lust Stories 2 . Her segment titled "The Mirror", which starred Tillotama Shome and Amruta Subhash , tackled themes of female desire and voyeurism. It received positive reviews upon release, with high praise for Sen Sharma's segment, winning her the Filmfare OTT Award for Best Web Original Film (Critics). Sen Sharma is next set to star in Anurag Basu's urban drama Metro... In Dino alongside an ensemble cast of Anupam Kher, Neena Gupta , Pankaj Tripathi , Aditya Roy Kapur , Sara Ali Khan , Ali Fazal and Fatima Sana Shaikh . The film
5184-519: The President. It received positive reviews from critics upon release, with particular praise for Sen Sharma's performance. Nikhat Kazmi from The Times of India wrote, "Performance-wise, it's the uptight and complex-ridden Sen Sharma who walks away with laurels and laughs even as the film takes a healthy snigger at the desi self." Sen Sharma next starred in Zoya Akhtar 's directorial debut,
5280-401: The T. The campaign has been condemned by many LGBT groups as transphobic . Many have expressed desire for an umbrella term to replace existing initialisms. Queer gained popularity as an umbrella-term for sexual and gender minorities in the 21st century. The term remains controversial, particularly among older LGBT people, who perceive it as offensive due to its historical usage as
5376-714: The US, the term "Sexual and Gender Minority" has been adopted by the National Institutes of Health , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the UCLA Williams Institute , which studies SGM law and policy. Duke University and the University of California San Francisco both have prominent sexual and gender minority health programs. An NIH paper recommends the term SGM because it
5472-466: The accent received universal acclaim and earned her the National Film Award for Best Actress . Her performance was later included in the 2010 issue of the "Top 80 Iconic Performances" by Filmfare . In 2005, Sen Sharma starred in Madhur Bhandarkar 's drama Page 3 , which saw her portray the role of a smart journalist who steps into the world of Page 3 culture media and journalism in
5568-834: The acronym. Many further variants exist which add additional identities, such as LGBTQIA+ (for intersex , asexual , aromantic , and agender ) and 2SLGBTQ+ (for two-spirit ), LGBTQQ (for queer and questioning), or which order the letters differently, as in GLBT and GLBTQ . The collective of all LGBTQ people is often called the LGBTQ community . These labels are not universally agreed upon by everyone that they are intended to include. For example, some intersex people prefer to be included in this grouping, while others do not. Various alternative umbrella terms exist across various cultures, including queer ; same gender loving (SGL); and Gender, Sexual and Romantic Minorities (GSRM). The first widely used term, homosexual , now
5664-506: The audience, the films and their makers to create social change. In its debut year, founder Festival Director Sridhar Rangayan said he hoped that the film festival would encourage greater visibility of queer cinema and bring it into the mainstream discourse. He has said that the festival showcases the films to both queer and mainstream audiences, in order to make them aware of queer thought, desires and expressions. The festival boasts of support from Indian film personalities. Shyam Benegal
5760-484: The challenges faced by medical staff and first responders during the 2008 Mumbai attacks . The series, and Sen Sharma's performance, received critical acclaim upon release. In 2023, her first film appearance was as a hardened cop in the action thriller Kuttey , which received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics upon release, and emerged as a commercial disaster at the box-office. She next collaborated with R. Balki , Amit Ravindernath Sharma and Sujoy Ghosh for
5856-520: The city of Mumbai. Upon release, the film received high critical acclaim, and emerged as a moderate commercial success at the box-office. Page 3 helped Sen Sharma gain notice in Hindi cinema and earned her the Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut . The same year, she also starred alongside Waheeda Rehman , Shabana Azmi and Bose in her mother's directorial 15 Park Avenue , which saw her play
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#17327875794315952-415: The comeback of Madhuri Dixit , saw Sen Sharma in the supporting role of a tomboy. The film received mixed-to-negative reviews, but praise was directed to her performance, with Rajeev Masand from CNN-IBN noting that her performance in the film as being "...nothing short of fantastic. Her greatest strength is that she isn't afraid of making a fool of herself and she doesn't worry about being laughed at. As
6048-536: The drama A Death in the Gunj (2017), which won her the Filmfare Award for Best Debut Director . She also received praise for starring in the anthology film Ajeeb Daastaans (2021) and for directing a segment in Lust Stories 2 (2023). In 2022, Sharma was placed in Outlook India ' s "75 Best Bollywood Actresses" list. Konkona Sen Sharma was born on 3 December 1979. Her father Mukul Sharma
6144-470: The drama Luck by Chance , leading an ensemble cast alongside Farhan Akhtar . The film saw her portray a starlet trying to make it big in the Hindi film industry. It opened to widespread critical acclaim upon release, with high praise directed towards Sen Sharma's performance; however, the film emerged as an underwhelming success at the box-office. She followed it up with Ayan Mukerji 's directorial debut,
6240-765: The drama Page 3 (2005), and won two consecutive Filmfare Awards for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in the dramas Omkara (2006) and Life in a... Metro (2007), with the former also winning her the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress . Her other notable films during this period include 15 Park Avenue (2005), Dosar (2006), Laaga Chunari Mein Daag (2007), Luck By Chance (2009), Wake Up Sid (2009) and Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge? (2010). Sen Sharma achieved further success with starring roles in Ek Thi Daayan (2013), Goynar Baksho (2014), Talvar (2015) and Lipstick Under My Burkha (2017). She made her directorial debut with
6336-434: The early 2010s, asexuality and aromanticism started gaining wider recognition. Around 2015, they were included in the expanded initialism LGBTQIA , with the A standing for asexual , aromantic , commonly grouped together as a-spec along with agender . Asexual individuals experience minimal to no sexual attraction to others, and it is crucial to acknowledge that asexuality is a legitimate sexual orientation, not
6432-585: The existence or right to equality of bisexual orientations and of transsexuality, sometimes leading to public biphobia and transphobia . In contrasts to separatists, Peter Tatchell of the LGBT human rights group OutRage! argues that to separate the transgender movement from the LGB would be "political madness", stating that: Queers are, like transgender people, gender deviant. We don't conform to traditional heterosexist assumptions of male and female behaviour, in that we have sexual and emotional relationships with
6528-1071: The festival have been Sir Ian McKellen , Deepa Mehta , Sonam Kapoor , Arjun Kapoor , Raveena Tandon , Konkana Sen Sharma , Nawazuddin Siddiqui , Rajkumar Rao , Swara Bhaskar , Divya Dutta , Pratik Gandhi , Ranveer Brar , Shalmali , Pooja Bhatt , Nisa Godrej , Anupam Kher , Kunal Kapoor , Juhi Chawla , Manisha Koirala , Nandita Das , Sai Paranjpye , Kabir Bedi , Kalpana Lajmi , Zeenat Aman , Moushumi Chatterjee , Onir , Tanuja Chandra , Neeraj Ghaywan , Sanjay Suri , Neelam Kothari , Rajeshwari Sachdeva , Varun Badola , Shweta Kawatra , Varun Grover , Shalmali_Kholgade , Rekha Bhardwaj , Simone Singh , Sona Mohapatra , Anant Mahadevan , Dalip Tahil , Shaina NC , Aleque Padamsee, Apurva Asrani , Suchitra Pillai-Malik , Purab Kohli , Adhuna Bhabani, Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil , Laxmi Narayan Tripathi and Sushant Divgikar . KASHISH since 2010 to 2016 has been organized by Solaris Pictures and co-organized by The Humsafar Trust . Since 2017, KASHISH
6624-593: The film received critical acclaim upon release, and won her the Best Actress award at the New York Indian Film Festival and the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne . However, despite critical acclaim, both A Death in the Gunj and Lipstick Under My Burkha emerged as below-average commercial successes at the box-office. In 2020, she starred in the comedy-drama Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare alongside Bhumi Pednekar as
6720-450: The initialism refers to a single community is also controversial. Although identical in meaning, LGBT may have a more feminist connotation than GLBT as it places the "L" (for "lesbian") first. LGBT may also include additional Qs for " queer " or " questioning " (sometimes abbreviated with a question mark and sometimes used to mean anybody not literally L, G, B or T) producing the variants LGBTQ and LGBTQQ . The order of
6816-613: The issue since the movement began. From about 1988, activists began to use the initialism LGBT in the United States. Not until the 1990s within the movement did gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people gain equal respect. This spurred some organizations to adopt new names, as the GLBT Historical Society did in 1999. Although the LGBT community has seen much controversy regarding universal acceptance of different member groups (bisexual and transgender individuals, in particular, have sometimes been marginalized by
6912-493: The judge every year from 2012 to 2020 of the KASHISH Poster Design Contest that invites designers from around the world to create the look of the festival, which will be used in posters, billboards and other promotional materials. Since 2020, after passing away of Wendell Rodricks, his husband Jerome Marrel was the judge. Instituted in the memory of socialist and reformer Shri K.F.Patil. Instituted in
7008-415: The larger LGBT community), the term LGBT has been a positive symbol of inclusion . Beginning in the 1990s, the term queer was beginning to be adopted by the community to support gay-pride and reclaim the term from its earlier pejorative use as scholars have shown. The field of study of the LGBTQ community is called queer studies , in recognition of this reclamation and used as an umbrella term for
7104-787: The leading role in Aparna Sen's drama Iti Mrinalini , reportedly a semi-autobiographical film directed by the acclaimed Indian director Aparna Sen, also her mother. She next appeared in Amitabh Verma's Jackpot opposite Ranvir Shorey , in Suman Mukherjee 's adaptation of Shesher Kobita and Goutam Ghose 's Shunyo Awnko . In 2013, she appeared alongside Emraan Hashmi , Kalki Koechlin and Huma Qureshi in Balaji Telefilms ' supernatural thriller Ek Thi Daayan , directed by newcomer Kannan Iyer and produced by Vishal Bhardwaj and Ekta Kapoor . The film itself
7200-413: The letters has not been standardized; in addition to the variations between the positions of the initial "L" or "G", the mentioned, less common letters, if used, may appear in almost any order. In Hebrew and Peninsular Spanish , LGTB ( להט"ב ) is used, that is, reversing the letters "B" and "T". Variant terms do not typically represent political differences within the community, but arise simply from
7296-448: The lives of nine different individuals in Mumbai , and dealt with themes such as extramarital affairs , sanctity of marriage, commitment phobia and love. It opened to widespread critical acclaim, with Sen Sharma's performance as a young and insecure woman receiving high praise. Despite expectations, the film emerged as a surprise commercial success at the box-office, grossing over ₹250 million worldwide. Life in a... Metro earned her
7392-433: The medium of films. It made LGBTQ persons, their desires and aspirations visible through films and brought about an international perspective to LGBTQ works. The objective of the festival continues to mainstream the LGBTQ community and project them as 'normal' human beings who have the capacity to love and live with dignity. The festival offers cinema as a means to understand what being queer means today, and how it impacts both
7488-481: The memory of socialist and reformer Shri K.F.Patil. Instituted in memory of late filmmaker Riyad Vinci Wadia , who made India’s first gay film BOMgAY , the Riyad Wadia Award for Best Emerging Indian Filmmaker is an attempt by KASHISH to recognize and nurture emerging Indian voices. Instituted in memory of eminent Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker Ismat Chughtai ,
7584-444: The movement. Around that time, some activists began to reclaim the term queer , seeing it as a more radical and inclusive umbrella term, though others reject it, due to its history as a pejorative . In recognition of this, the 2010s saw the adoption of LGBTQ , and other more inclusive variants. Some versions of the term, such as LGBT+ and LGBTQ+ add a plus sign , to represent additional identities not captured within
7680-412: The myth that being gay/lesbian/bi/asexual/pansexual/etc. makes a person deficiently different from other people. These people are often less visible compared to more mainstream gay or LGBT activists. Since this faction is difficult to distinguish from the heterosexual majority, it is common for people to assume all LGBT people support LGBT liberation and the visibility of LGBT people in society, including
7776-400: The preferences of individuals and groups. The terms pansexual , omnisexual , fluid and queer-identified are regarded as falling under the umbrella term bisexual (and therefore are considered a part of the bisexual community ). Some use LGBT+ to mean "LGBT and related communities". Other variants may have a "U" for "unsure"; a "C" for "curious"; another "T" for " transvestite ";
7872-530: The queer community and the society at large. It was the first Indian LGBTQ film festival to be held in a mainstream theater. It was also the first LGBTQ film festival to obtain a clearance from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India) . KASHISH Pride Film Festival, 2010 was held between 22 and 25 April 2010, spread across two venues in Mumbai – one in the city and one in the suburbs. The first edition
7968-410: The related " lesbian separatism ") holds that lesbians and gay men form (or should form) a community distinct and separate from other groups normally included in the LGBTQ sphere. While not always appearing in sufficient numbers or organization to be called a movement , separatists are a significant, vocal, and active element within many parts of the LGBT community. In some cases separatists will deny
8064-493: The right to live one's life differently from the majority. In the 1996 book Anti-Gay , a collection of essays edited by Mark Simpson , the concept of a 'one-size-fits-all' identity based on LGBT stereotypes is criticized for suppressing the individuality of LGBT people. Writing in the BBC News Magazine in 2014, Julie Bindel questions whether the various gender groupings now, "bracketed together[,] ... share
8160-772: The rights of people who fall outside of expected binary sex and gender norms". Julius Kaggwa of SIPD Uganda has written that, while the gay community "offers us a place of relative safety, it is also oblivious to our specific needs". Numerous studies have shown higher rates of same-sex attraction in intersex people, with a recent Australian study of people born with atypical sex characteristics finding that 52% of respondents were non-heterosexual; thus, research on intersex subjects has been used to explore means of preventing homosexuality. As an experience of being born with sex characteristics that do not fit social norms, intersex can be distinguished from transgender, while some intersex people are both intersex and transgender. In
8256-399: The role of a young girl who moves to Mumbai only to find her older sister moonlighting as an escort unbeknownst to their family, and helps her sister redeem herself. It opened to mixed reviews from critics upon release, however Sen Sharma's performance received praise, thus earning a third nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress. Anil Mehta 's Aaja Nachle , which marked
8352-430: The same issues, values and goals?" Bindel refers to a number of possible new initialisms for differing combinations and concludes that it may be time for the alliances to either be reformed or go their "separate ways". In 2015, the slogan " Drop the T " was coined to encourage LGBT organizations to stop support of transgender people as they say that sexual orientation, LGB, does not share similarity with gender identity,
8448-523: The same sex. We should celebrate our discordance with mainstream straight norms. The portrayal of an all-encompassing "LGBT community" or "LGB community" is also disliked by some lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Some do not subscribe to or approve of the political and social solidarity, and visibility and human rights campaigning that normally goes with it, including LGBT pride marches and events. Some of them believe that grouping together people with non-heterosexual orientations perpetuates
8544-402: The term transsexual commonly falls under the umbrella term transgender , but some transsexual people object to this. Those who add intersex people to LGBT groups or organizations may use the extended initialism LGBTI , or LGBTIQ . The relationship of intersex to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans, and queer communities is complex, but intersex people are often added to
8640-466: The wider community as the academic response to the Stonewall riots. The acronym LGBT eventually evolved to LGBTQ in recognition of the community's reclamation of the term. In 2016, GLAAD 's Media Reference Guide states that LGBTQ is the preferred initialism, being more inclusive of younger members of the communities who embrace queer as a self-descriptor. Some people consider queer to be
8736-540: Was a science writer and journalist and her mother Aparna Sen is an actress and film director. She has an elder sister, Kamalini Chatterjee. Sen Sharma's maternal grandfather, Chidananda Dasgupta , was a film critic, scholar, professor, writer and one of the co-founders of the Calcutta Film Society . Her grandmother Supriya Dasgupta was a cousin of legendary modern Bengali poet Jibanananda Das . Sen Sharma graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi with
8832-747: Was also criticized for using the 2SLGBTQQIA+ initialism. As of July 2023, the Government of Canada's official term is 2SLGBTQI+ . Trudeau's new acronym was criticized by some social media users. The term trans* has been adopted by some groups as a more inclusive alternative to "transgender", where trans (without the asterisk) has been used to describe trans men and trans women , while trans* covers all non-cisgender ( genderqueer ) identities, including transgender, transsexual, transvestite, genderqueer, genderfluid , non-binary , genderfuck , genderless, agender, non-gendered, third gender, two-spirit, bigender , and trans man and trans woman. Likewise,
8928-637: Was developed by Phylesha Brown-Acton in 2010 at the Asia Pacific Games Human Rights Conference. This refers to those in the rainbow Pacific Islander community, who may or may not identify with the LGBT initialism. Konkana Sen Sharma Konkona Sen Sharma (born 3 December 1979) is an Indian actress and filmmaker who works primarily in Bengali and Hindi films. She has received several awards, including two National Film Awards and three Filmfare Awards . The daughter of filmmaker and actress Aparna Sen , she
9024-500: Was founded by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon , but disbanded in 1970 following disputes over which goal should take precedence. As equality was a priority for lesbian feminists , disparity of roles between men and women or butch and femme were viewed as patriarchal . Lesbian feminists eschewed gender role play that had been pervasive in bars as well as the perceived chauvinism of gay men ; many lesbian feminists refused to work with gay men or take up their causes. Lesbians who held
9120-508: Was organized by Solaris Pictures and The Humsafar Trust in association with Bombay Dost . Features, short films, documentaries and experimental films were screened that highlighted gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender characters and stories. The films explored the diverse realities, complexities, joys and sorrows that make up the global queer experience. They also celebrated, reclaimed, and explained LGBTQ identities while engaging and entertaining audiences. The film festival brought together
9216-497: Was screened at several film festivals in 2008 before having a theatrical release. In 2009, her first film appearance was in the low-budget English-language film The President Is Coming , directed by Kunaal Roy Kapur . The film explores a day in the life of six contestants who will stop at nothing as the US President is coming to town, with Sen Sharma playing one of the six contestants who will represent New India in front of
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