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CREDITS
Title: Mumbai Salsa
Year: 2007
Language: Hindi
Subtitle: English
Genre: Feature / Popular Entertainer
Director: Manoj Tyagi
SYNOPSIS
Maya Chandhok lives a wealthy lifestyle in Delhi along with her parents. Refusing to buckle down to her mother's demands to get married, she re-locates to Kolkata, obtains her MBA, and then goes to reside in Mumbai where she gets a job in a bank, and shares a flat with two room-mates, Zenobia and Neha. She meets with Sanjay and both fall in love. Then one day he dramatically and publicly dumps her. A few days later she meets with Rajeev Sharma, who is heartbroken after his fiance, Pooja, dumped him to re-locate to America, and both are attracted to each other. She is delighted when he proposes to her, but her delight turns sour when he asks her to re-locate with him to Singapore, drop her career, and be a home-maker for the rest of her life. Maya must now make up her mind amidst chaos and heartbreak that also threaten to tear apart lives of both Neha and Zenobia, who are also dating Rajeev's friends, Karan Kapoor and Shaji, while conservative Tyagraj, Rajeev's pal, struggles with his feelings about a much liberated Caucasian co-worker, Pamela.
QUEER NOTES
Mumbai Salsa is a take on metro sexual urban youth who are the Vice Presidents and the Directors in MNCs even as they have barely touched 30 years of age. With enough spending capacity, spare weekends to chill out and a life that asks a number of questions in quest of that one life partner who could be relied upon forever, for these youngsters a pub or a lounge or a nightclub is a place that attempts at showing them a direction and narrating a thousand tales.
ACTOR/S IN QUEER ROLE
LINKS
Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1127870/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai_Salsa_(film)
queer portrayals in Indian films