Which film did a better depiction of queerness/homosexuality?

Which film was more intelligent and refreshing in its treatment of the homosexuality angle?

For me, I liked ELKDTAL more. A small quibble I had with the movie is the disproportionate amount of attention that Sweety and Sahil’s story gets compared with Sweety and her lover Kuhu.

But apart from that, the film is better than Shubh Mangal Zyaada Saavdhan, which slipped into comic territory more often than trying to make an intelligent point about the inherent struggle these people face.

Also, ELKDTAL never for once misses its mark and gets derailed into a moral high ground of preaching or proving a point.

I haven't watched both, but I loved Aligarh based on same issue. It was based on real incident and I loved the movie.

ELKDTAL was too dramatic (literally too) in how the big reveal happens to parents etc.

But SMZS was more realistic with comedy added. So yeah I liked the later movie better.

Originally posted by: Renee.Clare

I haven't watched both, but I loved Aligarh based on same issue. It was based on real incident and I loved the movie.

OMG same here. Aligarh was class apart❤️

Even Kapoor and Sons handled the homosexuality angle very well. Bold, intelligent and warm.

Originally posted by: Dianaseb

ELKDTAL was too dramatic (literally too) in how the big reveal happens to parents etc.

But SMZS was more realistic with comedy added. So yeah I liked the later movie better.

SMZS worked hard to get the mainstream audiences into the theatres. I respect for the makers for their tongue-in-cheek and incorrigible sense of humour. However, thematically ELKDTAL made more points about queerness. As a heterosexual woman, I’m not the right person to comment on the relatability of Sonam Kapoor’s character Sweety — a small-town girl who’s lesbian — and her travails. However, where it scores is in showing how the arguably ‘nice’ people—non-Khap type humans who care about the people they love—are also incorrigible slaves to patriarchy, making many lives miserable, including their own.

Kapoor and Sons

Of the two, Ek ladki is better. But even by BW's standards, it's quite melodramatic and unnecessarily stretched.

Couldn't stand Shubh mangal though.That was trash. Couldn't even finish it and that's saying a lot.

I wish better LGBTQ films get made. We need to see at least 10-20 such films a year. Hopefully we'll get there soon.

Originally posted by: .KISS-my-ASS.

Kapoor and Sons

I love that movie❤️

However, I feel the main theme there was not queerness but dysfunctionality of the family--the queerness just is a sub-plot. I wanted to compare these 2 movies, whose main subject was homosexuality in a mainstream format.

Originally posted by: ponymo

Of the two, Ek ladki is better. But even by BW's standards, it's quite melodramatic and unnecessarily stretched.

Couldn't stand Shubh mangal though.That was trash. Couldn't even finish it and that's saying a lot.

I wish better LGBTQ films get made. We need to see at least 10-20 such films a year. Hopefully we'll get there soon.

Gender fluidity and non-conformity to gendered roles should be shown more. Aligarh, Kapoor and Sons were both better movies than the ones listed in my poll. But I feel these two movies had more reach among d mainstream audience.