Got your eyebrows up, didn't I?

Homosexuality depiction in Malayalam Cinema Its remarkable how a book can send you on a journey to a place you have never traveled before. I was reading through VT Nanda Kumar's Randu Penkuttikal, first published i n 1974, (which was to the best of my knowledge,  the source material for  the first onscreen adaptation and depiction of lesbianism in  Malayalam cinema) and suddenly there were these whole lot of questions. Our Malayalam movies have depicted, illustrated, portrayed, sketched and at times hastily, displayed infidelity, strife, violence, sibling rivalry, murder, crime, and even gone to the lengths of even psycho analysis and representations, but we never, ever have had the temerity nor the tenacity to discuss the 'third gender' onscreen. Except, of course, for the pathetically few that you can count on your hand. Read more of this post