This upcoming LGBT film highlights the need for family acceptance

The recently released trailer of Sridhar Rangayan’s upcoming feature film,

Evening Shadows

(Surmaee Shaam) has gone viral. It was released recently at the 8th KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival. The film is raising a lot of hopes among gay and lesbian persons as well as parents who feel a film like this can be an eye-opener. A lot of hope and expectations are pinned on this film which is the story of a son coming out to his mother in a small town in India, and how she grapples with this facet about her son.

Starring eminent actors like Ananth Mahadevan, Mona Ambegaonkar, Veena Nair, Yamini Singh and Abhay Kulkarni and debutants

Devansh Doshi

and Arpit Chaudhary, the film is expected to unravel the issues that are common in a middle-class household where patriarchy and conservative social mores dominate.

“The film is anecdotal. And more important when viewed in the precincts of the orthodox Brahmin community which cannot accept non-veg food let alone a gay son in the house. The script is reflective of a society refusing to recognize the existence of another gender and the wall the ‘other’ has to surmount to be allowed to exist", said

Ananth Mahdevan

who plays the patriarch Damodar.

"We are absolutely thrilled with the response the film’s trailer is getting on social media. It is an important film that will surely touch hearts and waken minds", said Sridhar Rangayan, the film’s director, who also won the National Award for editing for his film Breaking Free in 2016.

The film is in post production and is expected to be ready by year end.