Evan Todd ("Switched at Birth") stars as Adam, a small-town, blue-collar mechanic who likes beer and hockey but surprises his buddies when he tells them he’s gay. Well meaning but perhaps fated to trip over themselves, hilarity ensues when said buddies all try to help Adam find a boyfriend.
The actors prepared for the roles by going on gay chat lines and watching Queer as Folk. One of the actors was inspired by no other, than Gale Harold's Brian Kinney (so funny).Dunno Y, however, is different. The story of a married, closeted homosexual, Ashley, who is in a relationship with a wannabe actor, it's Bollywood's first serious portrayal of a gay relationship, complete with a 90-second kissing scene.
"It's a sensitive and intimate depiction of what it is to be gay in India," says Sanjay's brother, Kapil Sharma, who wrote the script and plays Ashley. "The kissing scene is not there to press media buttons. The script genuinely called for some onscreen intimacy between the stars."
The film comes at a sensitive time in India. Little more than a year ago, the Delhi High Court overturned a 150-year-old law that criminalised homosexuality. India, which has more than 500 million people under the age of 25, is shedding social taboos at a furious pace.
The changes in Indian society were obvious at the film's world premiere at Mumbai's first international queer film festival, Kashish. "The response was incredible," Kapil says. "The auditorium was packed and there were about 500 people who could not even get in. But what we were most pleased about was that there weren't any religious protests."
