Badnam Basti

Audacious, radically experimental and seldom screened: Badnam basti, the first Indian queer film, was rediscovered in a film archive in Berlin in 2019. Director Regisseur Prem Kapoor portrays a bisexual love triangle in Uttar Pradesh. Musical melodrama shot in a wildly associative style. Sarnam, a former petty thief, works as a truck driver in Uttar Pradesh. He is in love with Bansuri, a beautiful young woman he saved from men with ill intent. At the same time, he is attracted to his assistant, the young Shivraj. Slowly, an intensely passionate love triangle develops.