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Mainstreaming, Indian-Style

A story on the CNN website notes that in the last few years "a number of Bollywood rom-coms geared toward mass audiences have put LGBTQ relationships front and center."

In these films, gay or transgender characters run up against family members who disapprove of their relationships. "True to the Bollywood formula, the films include song and dance numbers and culminate in happy endings."

Folding queer people into the formula? Happy endings? Somewhere over the rainbow is now Mumbai.