Rajkummar Rao-Bhumi Pednekar's 'Badhaai Do' Is About A Lavender Marriage; Here's What It Means!

Just like sequels, Bollywood's obsession with making movies popularising India's LGBT+ community isn't new.To strike a woke conversation, we have a bevy of films that revolve around same-sex marriages, romantic relationships between a straight and a transgender person, and several other permutations and combinations that are being tried.?

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Currently, there has been a lot of buzz around— ‘Badhaai Do,’ a film starring Bhumi Pednekar and Rajkummar Rao.?

The trailer has revealed a lot more than it should have.?It's evident in the trailer that the story will revolve around a lesbian marrying a gay guy in small-town India.?

Bollywood is not alien to the concept of Lavender marriages, but what does it mean?

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The idea of opposite-sex homosexuals marrying each other is called a ‘lavender marriage.’?

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In the setup, a male-female enters a marriage of convenience to conceal one or both partners' socially stigmatized sexual orientation.

This is not Rajkummar Rao's first movie on an issue that remains taboo or a hush-hush topic.

Rao has been associated with films like Aligarh and Ek Ladki Ko Dekha To Aisa Laga, making him a safe bet to carry a subject as sensitive as a lavender marriage.?

Responding to the trailer of the film, fans wrote:

Produced by Junglee Pictures, Badhaai Do has been directed by Harshvardhan Kulkarni, who had earlier directed Gulshan Devaiah’s Hunterrr (2015).?The movie's script was written by Suman Adhikary and Akshat Ghildial, who had co-written Badhaai Ho.

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