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BEST employee’s 14-minute film to be screened at queer film festival

Relations will be screened at a suburban multiplex on May 27 as part of the Kashish film festival.

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When filmmaker Suresh Shelar approached Marathi writer-director Abhiram Bhadkamkar to play a homosexual protagonist in his short film Relations, Bhadkamkar did not bat an eyelid.

“He said it was a good script and agreed to do the role immediately,” says Shelar.

Bhadkamkar plays a 40-plus theatre director who is attracted to a younger man, but is not ready to take the relationship forward. The 14-minute-long movie will rub shoulders with more than 120 films from 30 countries, at the Kashish International Queer Film Festival to be held later this month.

Shelar, who works as a class IV BEST employee is not new to the film festival circuit. His first short film, Birthday, also dealt with gay issues and was screened at the Kashish International Queer film festival in 2010. Since then, the 35-year-old has made the short films Strugglers and Mr and Mrs Sharma.

Aware that his own sexuality would now be in question, Shelar says it is a small price to pay for pursuing his dream. “Besides, it’s an experimental film for the festival circuit. And only a small group of people will see it.”

Shelar insists he is a self-taught filmmaker. He has dipped into his own savings to make the short films and hopes to attract a producer for the full-length movie he plans to direct some day.

“I am working on a script for a woman-oriented feature film, which will chronicle the struggles of an aspiring Bollywood heroine,” Shelar says.

Relations will be screened at a suburban multiplex on May 27 as part of the Kashish film festival. Shelar has also arranged for a private screening at the house of his activist friend Vijaya Chauhan this weekend.

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