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Badnam Basti (English: Infamous Neighbourhood) is a 1971 Bollywood drama film directed by Prem Kapoor and adapted from an eponymous novel by Hindi novelist Kamleshwar. Starring Nitin Sethi, Amar Kakkad, and Nandita Thakur, it is often described as India's first gay film.
- 1971
- Vijay Raghav Rao
- Nitin Sethi, Amar Kakkad and Nandita Thakur
- Film Finance Corporation
Badnam Basti: Directed by Prem Kapoor. With Nitin Sethi, Nandita Thakur, Nandlal Sharma, Amar Kakad. An adaptation of Kamleshwar Prasad Saxenaa's eponymous novel, this artfully hewn, musical melodrama traces a circular relationship between its three main characters: dashing truck driver bandit Sarnam, the lovely Bansuri who he saves from being ...
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- Drama
- Prem Kapoor
- 1971
9 ago 2023 · Badnam Basti, a queer film that disappeared for decades, only to resurface in 2019. Read about the film's themes, its struggle for recognition, and the discourse surrounding its portrayal of desire and sexuality.
3 years ago. Following the Block's online presentation of BADNAM BASTI (1971), curator of media arts Michael Metzger welcomes Simran Bhalla (PhD candidate in Screen Cultures at Northwestern, 2019-2020 Block Museum Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow) and Sudhir Mahadevan (Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of ...
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- 1683
- Block Museum
6 ago 2020 · August 6, 2020 by nublockmuseum. Prem Kapoor’s 1971 Hindi film Badnam Basti (Alley of Ill Repute) is considered one of the first Indian films to explore queer relationships. Based on a novel by Hindi writer Kamleshwar Prasad Saxena, it centers on a love triangle between two men and one woman on the margins of society.
Badnam Basti – BFMAF. 17 September 2020. Essential Cinema. 83 mins. Badnam Basti. Alley of Ill Repute. Briefly released in 1971 and subsequently lost for decades until its rediscovery in 2019, Badnam Basti is the debut feature of Indian New Wave filmmaker Prem Kapoor.
19 set 2021 · Badnam Basti (Prem Kapoor, 1971) has a legendary reputation as a lost queer classic from India. The movie was located at the Arsenal Film Archive in Berlin in late 2019 and has been seen by a wider audience only a few times (all online). This essay offers a close analysis of the movie.
