Khush (1991)

Directed by

Pratibha Parmar

Genre

documentary film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

24 min

Rating

2.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short documentary interviews lesbians and gay men from India and the Indian diaspora. They talk about coming out to themselves and others and finding joy in their sexuality. The film includes dancing and artwork.

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What happens

Khush is a 1991 British short film directed by Pratibha Parmar. It portrays lesbians and gay men from India and other parts of Asia, discussing their coming out and their acceptance and embracing of their sexuality. Khush also discusses homosexuality in the Indian diaspora. It includes interviews and has segments of dancing and artwork. In Urdu, "Khush" means "ecstatic pleasure". This is Parmar's seventh film. Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, the author of Women Film Directors: An International Bio-critical Dictionary, wrote that Khush was "one of [Parmar's] best-known lesbian-centered films." The director stated that Khush was written as a "dialogue" involving South Asian LGBT diasporas. E. Ann Kaplan, author of Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze, stated that Khush "addresses the dual formation of colonialism as patriarchical and homophobic-a homophobia that uncannily found an echo within Indian culture itself". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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