Mumbai set to celebrate pride month with a two-day LGBTQ+ film festival

Coinciding with the ongoing Mumbai Queer Pride month activities, and after a hiatus of four years, Mumbai is all set to host the two-day Kashish Chalchitra Utsav as a part of the recently launched Mumbai Festival 2024 by Maharashtra Tourism. This is a free event open to everyone who is 18 years and above and will be held in the last weekend of this month from 11 am to 9.30 pm, in Andheri.

The festival will feature 37 Indian LGBTQ+ films in Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Panjabi, Urdu and Sanskrit. These are films which have won awards, acclaim or audience favourites at past editions of Kashish Pride Film Festival, earlier known as Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival.

“Kashish has for the past 14 years been an integral part of Mumbai, and we are very happy to be celebrating this Chalchitra Utsav with our collaboration with the government-supported Mumbai Festival, and also the community-led Mumbai Queer Pride month activities. We want to continue to build bridges between the LGBTQ+ community and society, to mainstream LGBTQ+ narratives and lives,” said Sridhar Rangayan, festival director.

“We want to bring Indian language LGBTQ+ cinema to the forefront, so that we can have diverse narratives which can speak and convey to our fellow citizens in their own languages,” said Saagar Gupta, director of programming.

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