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Being gay is as normal as organism straight: Samir Soni
"It was as basic as getting a phone call from Madhur Bhandarkar… and I knew if he would propose me half a decent role I would agree immediately,” says actor Samir Soni.
The role embodied all the right nuances a traits in a Madhur Bhandarkar film typifies, and Soni took up the oppose of portraying a gay character in Bhandarkar’s latest clip Fashion. Excerpts from a chat:
So why did you accept the role in Fashion?
I play a closet-gay fashion designer. It was a very challenging role to play. Madhur and I did a lot of study to sketch the character and his personality. But the greatest challenge was not to produce him a stereotypical gay character, but subtly express his sexuality through his personality and his relationship with the other characters in the film.
What thoughtful of research did you carry out?
I observed people. It was great entertaining, observing certain homosexual designers in our own fashion fraternity. Being gay is as normal as being straight, but still people watch down upon the gay community. A person’s sexual orientation does not describe the person, and that is what we have tried to focus on in this clip.
Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das kissed under the mosquito net in Deepa Mehta’s Fire. No one from mainstream cinema dared before or after to bring homosexual devotion openly out of the closet onto the screen. In truth Rekha who was the first preference for Fire said to me, “I’d happily kiss Nandita Das a dozen times. But not THAT way.” And when Tom Hanks “dared” to play a gay HIV-positive in Philadelphia he refused to kiss his screen-lover Antonio Banderas. Samir Soni(Raj Kumar Santoshi’s discovery best- remembered as Madhuri Dixit’s caddish lover in Lajja and as Amitabh Bachchan’s ungrateful son in Baghban) is the first Indian actor to have played a gay character in a mainstream Hindi film. And that isn’t all. Samir Soni in Madhur Bhandarkar’s Fashion has actually done a ardent kissing scene with his screen significant other played by a young theatre artiste named Anil Kumar. Madhur spotted Anil in a posh party-scene for Fashion and immediately offered him the role of Samir Soni’s boyfriend. Anil accepted without hesitation and had no problems with the intimate scen Samir recounts how commonplace it was for LGBTQI+ people to experience hostility and violence. He remembers one of his friends being attacked and severely beaten when it was found out he was gay. He was kicked out of his dwelling by his family and forced to flee. However, he couldn’t report the crimes to the police, seek help or even medical assistance because of fear of the authorities. “Even if you acquire beaten up for creature gay”, Samir says, “you can’t report it. Nothing will be done, you will be made enjoyable of, or maybe made a victim again by the police.” However, despite the real danger that Samir faced if people in his country of start knew about his sexuality, Samir secretly joined LGBTQI+ organisations. Even if he risked being found out, Samir knew that organism gay was an inherent part of who he was. Samir himself was attacked because of his sexual orientation. He says, “I didn’t recognize my attackers, I don’t know if they knew I was gay or just assumed I was gay. I felt favor it was going to be my turn now to be attacked and for my life to be in danger if I keep staying there.” When Samir was offered perform experience outside of Kosovo not long after his attack, Samir Soni, who plays the role of a gay fashion planner in Madhur Bhandarkar’s Fashion in a candid conversation with Sudipta Dey. Sudipta Dey The role embodied all the right nuances a traits in a Madhur Bhandarkar film typifies, and Soni took up the oppose of portraying a male lover character in Bhandarkar’s latest film Fashion. Excerpts from a chat: So why did you accept the role in Fashion? What kind of research did you carry out?
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Being gay is as normal as being straight: Samir Soni
“It was as easy as getting a handset call from Madhur Bhandarkar… and I knew if he would offer me half a decent role I would agree immediately,” says actor Samir Soni.
I play a closet-gay fashion designer. It was a very challenging role to play. Madhur and I did a lot of research to sketch the character and his personality. But the greatest challenge was not to make him a stereotypical gay character, but subtly express his sexuality through his personality and his relationship with the other characters in the film.
I observed people. It was great fun, observing certain gay designers in our own fashion fraternity. Creature gay is as normal as being straight, but still people look