
Bollywood's Top Lesbian Acts
It's been quite some time since we saw any girl-on-girl action in Bollywood, the last being Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das' brief lesbian act in Fire (1996).
Now, Lisa Ray will play a lesbian in not one but two movies -- I Can't Think Straight and The World Unseen. She is cast opposite Sheetal Seth in both films, directed by Shamim Sarif. Sarif, a lesbian herself, is married to her partner, Hanan Kattan. Kattan is producing both films.
I Can't Think Straight is a comedy about a half British, half Indian girl (Sheetal Seth), who falls for an Arab woman (Lisa). Sheetal, an Anglo-Indian actress, is best remembered for her English movies like Looking For Comedy In A Muslim World and ABCD.
While Sheetal's character falls for Lisa's in I Can't Think Straight, in The World Unseen, it's the other way round. Set in South Africa's apartheid movement in the 1950s, The World Unseen is about the lives of two women -- one, a docile housewife (Lisa), who falls for a free-spirited woman (Sheetal).
While we wait for the films to hit Indian shores, lets take a look at films with similar lesbian themes.




