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Copyright Sridhar Rangayan, 2009
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CREDITS
Title: Men Not Allowed
Year: 2006
Language: Hindi
Genre: Feature / Popular Entertainer
Director: Shrey Srivastava
SYNOPSIS
Tanya is the daughter of a business tycoon. She has lost her mother when she was a kid and grew up in high society where she has seen many man woman relationship. Vikram is a well-known celebrity and a top model. He wants to marry Tanya. Karan, Tanya's father, happens to know about the relationship between Tanya and Urmila and asks Vikram to make Urmila love him. This would prompt Tanya to marry him out of sheer jealousy. Tanya and Urmila get married and start living separately with their husbands but their marriages are entirely based on revenge and do not work out. This situation leads them to realize each other's importance and both leave their hubbies and again start living together where 'Men Are Not Allowed'.
QUEER NOTES
It is a story of two girls from different walks of life. Both are deceived, tortured, tormented and disillusioned by the men fraternity. They meet and fall in love with each other while hating men in their lives. Very much on the lines of the film 'Girlfriend', the film uses the lesbian angle for some hot titillatory scenes that is meant to appeal to the gross heterosexual audience.
ACTOR/S IN QUEER ROLE
Payal Rohatgi as Tanya and Tina Majumdar as Urmila (lesbian lovers)
LINKS
Imdb: www.imdb.com/title/tt1099982
queer portrayals in Indian films