Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (How I Felt When I Saw That Girl)

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Series/Themes: LGBTQIA+ Focus, Middle Eastern & South Asian Sidebar

Genre: Comedy, Drama, International

Accessibility: Subtitles

Film Year: 2019

Locations: India

Film Length: 120 min.

Languages: Hindi

Subtitles: Subtitled

Director: Shelly Chopra Dhar

Featuring: Anil Kapoor, Rajkummar Rao, Regina Cassandra, Sonam Kapoor

Sweety Chaudhary, a young Punjabi woman, is constantly badgered by her overbearing family about her love life, and the need to marry a nice Hindu boy. When she stumbles into a theater one afternoon, she meets Sahil, a failing playwright whopresents himself as a potential husband to Sweety’s family. Sahil becomes infatuated with Sweety, who is harboring a secret—she is in love with a woman.  Fearing retaliation from her conservative Hindu family, Sweety opens up to Sahil, who helps her navigate her family and her sexuality. This film, the first in Bollywood to feature a same-sex relationship, balances a light comedy of errors with a family drama that tests the strength of familial bonds. Discussion with director Shelly Chopra Dhar, moderated by Geeta Patel (UVA)

This film is part of the Middle Eastern and South Asian Film series supported by the UVA Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures and the UVA Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures

Thursday, October 24
8:45 PM
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Sweety Chaudhary, a young Punjabi woman, is constantly badgered by her overbearing family about her love life, and the need to marry a nice Hindu boy. When she stumbles into a theater one afternoon, she meets Sahil, a failing playwright whopresents himself as a potential husband to Sweety’s family. Sahil becomes infatuated with Sweety, who is harboring a secret—she is in love with a woman.  Fearing retaliation from her conservative Hindu family, Sweety opens up to Sahil, who helps her navigate her family and her sexuality. This film, the first in Bollywood to feature a same-sex relationship, balances a light comedy of errors with a family drama that tests the strength of familial bonds. Discussion with director Shelly Chopra Dhar, moderated by Geeta Patel (UVA)

This film is part of the Middle Eastern and South Asian Film series supported by the UVA Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures and the UVA Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures

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