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India’s LGBT community hail Bollywood lesbian romance as a milestone in country’s filmmaking

An hour into the Bollywood film Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga, the central character, Sweety, tells her male suitor she is in love with another woman. The inebriated young man is so amused that he cracks up with a loud “What?” Most audience members probably reacted the same way. For Sakshi, a lesbian woman who goes by one name who saw the film in a Mumbai cinema recently, it was a prodigious and emotional moment. “I was watching a woman committing to her love for another...

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