Apurva Asrani Feels It¡¯s Extremely Easy For A Queer Couple To Break Up Because Of Zero Support

Indiatimes exclusively spoke to filmmaker and editor Apurva Asrani and talked about his films, life and everything in between.

Aditya SagarUpdated: Oct 21, 2023, 18:11 IST
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National Film Award winner filmmaker Apurva Asrani has always been vocal with his thoughts. He who is best known for penning films like Simran, Citylights and Aligarh spoke to Indiatimes exclusively and talked about his life, career and everything in between.

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As the country currently celebrates Pride Month, our conversation with Apurva also revolved around queerness in popular culture.

One of the milestones of Apurva¡¯s career was the 2015 film Aligarh which still remains a promising example of perfect queer representation in cinema.

Asrani shares why a film like Aligarh deserves to be made. He says, ¡°With Aligarh, I think the time was so right for a story like this to be told. The LGBTQIA+ community was kind of tired with the portrayals which showed us in a very poor light. So there was a lot of rebellion, a lot of people were writing openly.¡±


"The community had said enough is enough. And hence Aligarh was born from that spirit to attempt and create a dignified portrayal of a man who was gay.¡±

Apurva addressed the popular debate of ¡®heterosexual actors playing queer characters on-screen¡¯.

He says, ¡°As a queer man, I think that these roles should be played by people who understand and have gone through the experience. Because like we have this term called mansplaining. Similarly, you can assume and create your own ideas of what a trans person or a gay person is and walk into it. And some films have done it.¡±

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Apurva then named Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan as a film that couldn¡¯t work out. ¡°It was an entertaining film. I know that their intention was good. But the film didn¡¯t strike a chord with me and many people from the community. It was meant for a straight audience in a way that Bollywood was making way back in the past, those films where we would make fun of people and whatever.¡±

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Asrani parallelly feels that cinema has evolved over the years. He says, ¡°I have been part of this change. I can say for a fact that it has improved exponentially. I grew up in the 80s and in the 90s when there wasn¡¯t a single film.¡±


In 2017, Apurva was diagnosed with facial palsy and shared with us how it affected his life and work.

He shared, ¡°It was a bilateral facial paralysis, which is connected to your nerves. And it was one of the most challenging times of my life and career. I was editing Made in Heaven. I was writing this film called Simran. You know, I was ready to embark on a lot of very exciting things. And I completely lost track of myself in that.¡±

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Apurva further talked about how it feels like love as a queer individual in India. He says, ¡°The love has been so fulfilling, so complete and so all-encompassing. Especially because society wouldn¡¯t recognize it. We only have each other. When I first fell in love with a man, it was in 1998. At that time it wasn¡¯t such an environment where it was easy to do that. But now we have arrived at a far better place to love and live freely.¡±

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Asrani emphasises the fact that recognition of queer marriages will sanction security in the community.

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He shares, ¡°It¡¯s extremely easy for a gay couple to break up. Because there is no support, recognition or anything. The families of the couple themselves will be the first ones to pull them apart when something goes wrong. They¡¯re just waiting. They won¡¯t give it the same kind of dignity that they would give a heterosexual married child.¡±

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¡°One needs to understand that there will be days and there will be times when you can¡¯t stand each other¡¯s guts. But is this a time when we should say, let¡¯s move forward, let¡¯s find somebody else? Then how much are you gonna swipe right, and left, what the hell that thing is? Our brains have also become wired into swipe, swipe, swipe. Something not working, swipe.¡±

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He continues, ¡°When you stick together, go through shit, pain, loss, and you wake up the next day and your partner is still next to you, no matter what that person has, what you have gone through because there is the attitude to work it out. So let¡¯s get through this night. I think then things can get better.¡±

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¡°Longevity can be understood. We¡¯ll be used to that. You¡¯ll be 60 years old and there¡¯ll be nobody waiting because nobody wants to swipe. So the moment you have marriage equality and recognition, it¡¯s not going to be that easy to get a divorce. You have to think about it.¡±

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Asked about the films that represented queer subjects sensitively, Apurva named My Brother Nikhil, Fire, Kapoor and Sons, Margarita with a Straw, Dear Dad, Aarya and Made in Heaven. On the work front, Apurva recently made his web series writing debut with the Disney Hotstar show Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors.

(For more news and updates from the world of celebrities from Bollywood and Hollywood, keep reading Indiatimes Entertainment, and let us know your thoughts on this story in the comments below.)

Aditya Sagar

Aditya Sagar is an Entertainment Journalist at Indiatimes who holds a true-blue Bollywood heart and has his ears tuned to the whispers of Tinseltown. From Dharma to Drama, he is your trusted guide to the glitz, glamour and gossip that make headlines. He can be reached out @theadityasagar across all social media platforms.

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