Bomgay

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| director = [[Riyad Vinci Wadia]], Jangu Sethna
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| writer = [[Riyad Vinci Wadia]], [[R. Raj Rao]]
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| narrator = [[Rajit Kapur]]
| starring = [[Rahul Bose]], [[Kushal Punjabi]] and Tarun Shahani
| music = [[Ashutosh Phatak]]
| cinematography = Tejal Patni
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| studio = [[Wadia Movietone]]
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| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1996|12|22|India}}
| runtime = 12 minutes
| country = India
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'''''Bomgay''''' is a 1996 Indian anthology of short films directed by [[Riyad Vinci Wadia]] and Jangu Sethna. The film stars [[Kushal Punjabi]] and [[Rahul Bose]] with music by [[Ashutosh Phatak]]. It is often regarded as India's first [[gay film]] and is known for its [[gay sex]] scene in a library.<ref name=global/> ''Bomgay'' consists of six segments, each based on a poem by Indian writer [[R. Raj Rao]].<ref name=global>{{cite book|title=Global Bollywood|year=2008|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0814747988|author=Aswin Punathambekar|page=151}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Yaraana: Gay Writing from South Asia|year=2011|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=978-0143064947|author=Hoshang Merchant|page=106}}</ref><ref name=long>{{cite book|title=Queer Asian Cinema: Shadows in the Shade, Volume 39|year=2001|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=1560231394|pages=313–323|author=Riyad Vinci Wadia|editor=Andrew Grossman|chapter=Long Life of a Short Film}}</ref>

==Segments==
*"Opinions"
*"Underground"
*"Lefty"
*"E unema no"
*"Bomgay"
*"Friends"

==Cast==
*[[Rahul Bose]] as The Lefty
*[[Kushal Punjabi]] as The Sodomiser
*[[Tarun Shahani]] as Enema Boy
*[[R. Raj Rao]] as The Opinionated
*[[Farud Cambata]] as Bombay Dost
*[[Freddy Firoze]] as Muthree Rani
*[[Eric Rosenbaumm]] as Sex Tourist

==Production==
In 1995 Riyad Vinci Wadia, having released his debut film ''Fearless'', decided to make a film based on gay culture in Bombay. He read R. Raj Rao's poetry collection ''One Day I Locked My Flat in Soul City'' and invited him to collaborate on a film script with him. It was difficult to find funding for the film in India, so the project was temporarily put on hold until Wadia read Rao's newest work, a collection of poems called "Bomgay". He decided to make a low-budget short film based on the poems. As "Bomgay" had a limited budget of Rs. 500,000, Wadia planned to use friends from the gay community to help keep costs down. He discovered that this was difficult as people were afraid of being [[Coming out|outed]] if they worked on the film, so he enlisted the help of his friends from the Bombay advertising industry instead.<ref name=global/><ref name=long/> Wadia secured [[Rahul Bose]] for the lead role. The film was shot in Bombay with scenes taking place in railroad cars shot [[Guerrilla filmmaking|guerrilla style]]. In order to shoot footage of a gay sex scene, the crew pretended that they were making a [[Public information film|public service film]] on [[ragging]]. The film was not released commercially in India as Wadia did not submit it to the [[Central Board of Film Certification|Censor Board]], believing that they would refuse it a certificate.<ref name=long/>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{imdb title|id=0115603}}

[[Category:Indian short films]]
[[Category:Indian LGBT-related films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:1996 films]]
[[Category:Films shot in Maharashtra]]
[[Category:English-language Indian films]]
[[Category:Gay-related films]]
[[Category:1996 LGBT-related films]]

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