title: Long life of a short film.
abstract: What follows is an account of my personal experiences as an independent Indian film director who had the fortune to make the country's first openly gay film, the short BOMgAY That said, I would like this essay to be accepted as, rather than a critical appraisal of Indian cinema, a humbly autobiographical account of one individual caught in the hectic throes of political (and cinematic) visibility.
authors.affiliation: cinema@mindspring.com
authors.forename: R V
authors.initials: RV
authors.lastname: Wadia
mesh_terms: D001154:Art; D005260:Female; D006716:Homosexuality; D018451:Homosexuality, Male; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D009040:Motion Pictures