Badhaai Do
that scene with the... mask... made me sob as hard as i used to back when i was fully closeted and fought my mom about gay rights T____T i love queer friendships! i love queer families! i love queer romances!
what i love about this the most is the way they did not just use queerness as a plot device; i.e., as another user said here, "just a topic to be dealt with". instead, they gave us fully-fleshed out characters, with their own values, issues, etc— and they just happened to be gay. humans who are just coincidentally gay! and i think that's what made this successfully convey what so many other "liberal" queer shows have failed to do so. one favorite detail from this is when Shardul was being misogynistc, so Sumi said, "i thought gay men were more sensitive than straight men!" to which Shardul replied, "just because i'm gay doesn't mean i don't have my values!" LOL i mean. messy as the way it was put, he had a point xD that was just one of the many ways this film emphasized queer people's identities outside their queerness, and the way they can be different from their fellow queers.
our main characters' respective love lives were also so wonderfully written. Sumi and Rimjhim have my entire heart; nobody else can make a blood test so homoerotic. Shardul's pursuits of romance with men he has significant age gaps with is also so on point. and can i also just—! point out the casting choice/styling with our four (five?) main queer characters? like they're all cisgender but you can really TELL they're gay. Shardul has the gay moustache. Rimjhim has the lesbian look in her eyes. something in Sumi's demeanor. all those ridiculous things. no wonder their gaydars are all so accurate here.
my only issue is the— rushed? too idealistic?— last arc, but it's not a dealbreaker. i'm happy they're all happy :) and i'm the happiest for the baby who'll receive the love of their big queer extended family!