Lesbian themes in Malayalam cinema
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Asha Prakash, The Times of India
Buddy (2013)
Director Raaj Prabavathy Menon’s debut film, Buddy, was inspired by The Kids Are All Right (2010/ USA), which had been nominated for the Oscars. The film’s teenaged hero Vishnu (Mithun Murali) is not sure if his mother is Meenakshi (Asha Sarath) or Padma (Bhumika Chawla), because both brought him up.
These two intellectual women are rumoured to be lesbians and, far from getting annoyed by the rumours, they like such localised fame as comes with them. To make things more curious, the boy learns that he was born out of artificial insemination, so he sets out to look for his father…
See also
Adult content in Bengali cinema Adult content in Hindi-Urdu cinema Adult content in Kannada cinema Adult content in Malayalam cinema Lesbian themes in Bengali films Lesbian themes in Hindi-Urdu films Lesbian themes in Malayalam cinema
