Ek Ladki Ko… Is More Than Just Lesbians In Love

Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga was called India’s first mainstream lesbian love story. But it’s much more than that, says the film’s director. ️

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00:00Well, this is actually more than just a gay love story in my mind, the way I look at this

00:24film.

00:26Yes, it is, of course, talking about the same-sex love, but more than that, it's talking about

00:33the acceptance of a gay child in a family, in a small, middle-town, small-town family

00:43in India, you know, with a brother and the staff and the grandmother and the father and

00:50all of that.

00:51So, really, it's a film about the family, a film about the community and, of course,

00:57about love, which is not the primary focus of the film.

01:01I figured that the best way to talk about the subject to people is really, you know,

01:07nobody wants to be preached at.

01:09You know, you don't want to preach and you don't want to give lectures and you don't

01:12tell somebody, you are wrong, you are right.

01:14Nobody wants to hear that.

01:15So, and it doesn't do any good.

01:22You know, this was an important story to tell and so we started writing the script before

01:34this came out.

01:35We didn't know if it was going to be out of our lives or not, but that wasn't going to

01:40stop us from making the film.

01:41We were going to make it and then see what the destiny would be.

01:45So, we did, we had it, actually the entire film was shot before, when the law was abolished,

01:51before that.

01:52So, I would like people to maybe look at their perspective and see if there is room for nudging

02:00it a bit.

02:01I mean, I'm not saying you should walk out a changed person and if you are superb and

02:06if you're not, even if it's just a seed planted in your mind, it will translate into something

02:12eventually and I'll be happy with just that.