Alankrita Shrivastava

“Cinema, as a pictorial imagery created in the motion picture space, plays a great role in deeply influencing minds and ideas about several things—cultures, rituals, existence, identities, love, relationships. These three artistes [are challenging] the roles that women are expected to play. The roles [they write or portray] are not typical, or as per society’s norms of gender-roles. Once you start queering the construct of gender roles, you start creating a larger imagination of what a man or woman can be. When you start bringing in queer characters in a family, you start seeing them co-existing in a normal fashion. Cinema can bring about this change, and Mona, Alankrita and Kalki have been doing that for a while through their work and the things they talk about.”    

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The awards, he says, will create a sense of belonging for the LGBTQIA+ community. “Conversations here revolve around lived experiences, and are essential in giving the community a sense of identity and space, while also informing the audience of queerness and the expanse of choice. There’s a need to create a benchmark for authenticity of the narrative. Awards create a reference point for queer folks that exist in the publishing world.”