Pride Month: Celebrate June 2023 with these iconic Indian queer characters

Priyamm Dangi

 June 1, 2023

Badhaai Do

Rajkummar Rao plays Shardul Thakur, a gay cop in Harshavardhan Kulkarni’s 2022 film Badhaai Do

Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan

Ayushmann Khurrana and Jitendra Kumar are a gay couple (Kartik Singh and Aman Tripathi) in Hitesh Kewalya’s 2020 film Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan

Kapoor & Sons

Fawad Khan played Rahul Kapoor in Shakun Batra’s 2016 film Kapoor & Sons

Aligarh

Manoj Bajpayee, as Professor Ramchandra Siras, in Hansal Mehta’s Aligarh, released in 2016

Bombay Talkies

Randeep Hooda and Saqib Saleem play lovers, Dev and Avinash, in the 2013 anthology film Bombay Talkies

Loev

Shiv Pandit and Dhruv Ganesh play lovers, Jai and Sahil, in Sudhanshu Saria’s 2015 released film Loev

My Brother… Nikhil

Sanjay Suri is seen as Nikhil Kapoor, who battles HIV, in Onir’s My Brother… Nikhil, released in 2005