WATCH: Jonathan Groff belts Bollywood to woo Karan Soni in gay rom-com ‘A Nice Indian Boy’.
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Growing up, media taught us to view weddings as the ultimate expression of love, though we seldom got to see how queer folks fit into that vision.
That’s especially the case in Indian culture, where, according to filmmaker Roshan Sethi, “literally every Bollywood movie is a romance,” many of which culminate in a lavish, larger-than-life straight wedding.
As the son of Indian immigrants who struggled for years to come out as gay, Sethi admits in a press statement that he began to see these Bollywood versions of love stories in a new light, eventually resenting them “for their narrowness, for the fact that I was obsessed with stories I could never be part of.”
So, he set out to make a movie that could reclaim some of that big-screen vision of love for the queer community—complete with plenty of singing & dancing, in true Bollywood fashion—”as if to say: this is ours too.”
And that’s exactly what Sethi’s new movie A Nice Indian Boy is: a rom-com that finds a gay couple, against the odds, attempting to plan the Indian wedding of their dreams.
