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Mehta gets emotional about gay parade
Thursday July 3 2008
 
Mumbai— Canada-based Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta got emotional when she was told that the first gay parade took place in the capital where the screening of her lesbian film Fire was forcibly stopped and disrupted.
The march began at the Barakhamba Road and ended at Jantar Mantar, the famous observatory and tourist destination.
According to organizers, the parade was simultaneously held in Bangalore, Kolkata and Puducherry.
“I wish I could be there. My heart swells with pride when Fire is mentioned as a favourite film on alternate sexuality. If Fire has inspired the homosexual community, I guess I have much to be proud of,” said Mehta.
“For years after Fire, there was no significant film on lesbianism. But now there are films like I Can’t Think Straight and When Kiran Met Karen,” said Mehta.
Mehta has just completed another celluloid treatise on the repression of women called Heaven On Earth.
“I feel happy to see other filmmakers going into the theme. But I repeat, I wasn’t making a film on lesbianism. It was about subjugation and repression. My new film Heaven On Earth is also about the same theme.”