Undoubtedly one of the best romance films I have ever watched, if only for the incredible sensitivity it shows to every character. Marty, Clara, Teresa and Catherine are real, whole people, because of and despite their loneliness.
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Sivaji: The Boss 2007
It's a pretty fun masala movie, with a ridiculous but cathartic political plot and an abhorrent romance, but most of all, it's a vehicle for the perfect short film that is "Athiradee."
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Dostana 2008
Unfortunately I saw this film at a young and impressionable age, and unfortunately this was the first film I ever saw that acknowledged that Indians can be gay. As a result I became obsessed with it, even though it is virulently homophobic and chockful of the most regressive, disgusting stereotypes you can imagine. Honestly I am still a little obsessed with it. I hate it so much. At the same time: there is a weird and uncomfortable familiarity to “Maa…
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Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety 2018
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The movie quite literally ends with a guy leaving his fiancee at the altar so he can be with his boy best friend...and then the two of them hang out with his grandfather and his grandfather's lifelong (male) partner while talking about how stupid you'd have to be to marry a woman?? At some point you can't call it gay subtext anymore, it just becomes text.
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