In contrast, Khurrana and Jitendra Kumar share a passionate kiss 20 minutes into KewalyaвЂ™s film. Perhaps this is the confidence lent by some distance from September 2018- Ek Ladki, which released five months after the Supreme CourtвЂ™s reading down of Section 377, only brings out SweetyвЂ™s partner 85 minutes into the film. In front of the demurely progressive Ek Ladki, Shubh Mangal seems especially bold. Kewalya turns this on its head: They are singing dosti but they mean pyaar. For years, gay viewers have located signs of pyaar within declarations of dosti in Hindi films. Shubh Mangal alludes to this by having its leads sing Yeh Dosti from Sholay, a film with a friendship so deep that it could be mistaken for love. Additionally, there just isnвЂ™t a tradition of gay or lesbian film that they could reference if they wanted to. And there are mustard fields: the defining visual reference of Aditya ChopraвЂ™s film.ДilwaleвЂ™s ubiquity makes it a great reference point for Dhar and her co-writer, Gazal Dhaliwal, and Kewalya to hang their queer narratives on. Anil Kapoor plays a milder version of PuriвЂ™s stern dad. When she reveals, however, that sheвЂ™s in love with a girl but her family wonвЂ™t approve, he turns up announced at her Punjab home to win over her family-just like Raj in the original, except Sahil is there as a friend. Sahil (Rajkummar Rao) initially falls in love with Sweety (Sonam Kapoor). That film too used the broad beats of Dilwale. Before Shubh Mangal, the only mainstream Hindi film with a homosexual pairing at its centre was Shelly Chopra DharвЂ™s Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (2019).

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