Main Khiladi Tu Anari (clip)
Director: Sameer Malkan
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Summary: A clip from the film Main Khiladi, Tu Anari (1994) directed by Sameer Malkan, starring Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan. The queer possibilities of this film were pointed out by Shohini Ghosh. Akshay Kumar also enjoys a certain popularity as a gay icon. This film typically fits into a buddy genre in Bollywood, most exaggerated in Mahesh Bhatt's film Saathi, and later played upon as a format in Karan Johar's films though those typically involve a romantic triangle rather than a crime or suspense genre.
For more details on this film and on Akshay Kumar as a gay icon, see the article by Thomas Waugh - 'Queer Bollywood, or "I'm the player, you're the naive one": Patterns of sexual subversion in recent Indian popular cinema', Keyframes - Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies Tinkcom, Matthew; Villarejo, Amy Eds.
http://media.opencultures.net/queer/data/indian/mkta-waugh.pdf
This clip is part of the Queering Bollywood database, an exhibition and demonstration of a collection of queer readings of Indian cinema. This open and collaborative database of articles, film clips, magazine stories, etc., has been compiled by Namita Malhotra, Lawrence Liang and many others at Alternative Law Forum and in Bangalore. For more, see
http://media.opencultures.net/queer/
A clip from the film Main Khiladi, Tu Anari (1994) directed by Sameer Malkan, starring Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan. The queer possibilities of this film were pointed out by Shohini Ghosh. Akshay Kumar also enjoys a certain popularity as a gay icon. This film typically fits into a buddy genre in Bollywood, most exaggerated in Mahesh Bhatt's film Saathi, and later played upon as a format in Karan Johar's films though those typically involve a romantic triangle rather than a crime or suspense genre.
For more details on this film and on Akshay Kumar as a gay icon, see the article by Thomas Waugh - 'Queer Bollywood, or "I'm the player, you're the naive one": Patterns of sexual subversion in recent Indian popular cinema', Keyframes - Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies Tinkcom, Matthew; Villarejo, Amy Eds.
http://media.opencultures.net/queer/data/indian/mkta-waugh.pdf
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This clip is part of the Queering Bollywood database, an exhibition and demonstration of a collection of queer readings of Indian cinema. This open and collaborative database of articles, film clips, magazine stories, etc., has been compiled by Namita Malhotra, Lawrence Liang and many others at Alternative Law Forum and in Bangalore. For more, see
http://media.opencultures.net/queer/
akshay kumar
buddy
gay icon
queer
saif ali khan
(Translated from Hindi)
Karan: I can't do anything
Deepak: I have one condition/demand, but..
Karan: What?
Deepak: First you have to smile, say please with a smile...
Karan: Please
Deepak: With a smile, Karan..
We are the same, we are different
Sometimes we have fights and remain apart
We see a girl with our eyes and clap with our hands..
I'm the player, you're the naive one
I'm the naive one, you're the player
bollywood
costume
dance
gay icon
In this scene the ubiquitous pelvic thrust, most popularised by Govinda is used here in a manner that seems to simulate sex between the two men. This was also pointed out by Thomas Waugh's article on this movie and Akshay Kumar as a gay icon.
pelvic thrust
song
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