Indian Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor Ahuja posing for a picture during the promotion of Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (This is How I Felt When I Saw that Girl). Photo: AFP Indian Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor Ahuja posing for a picture during the promotion of Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (This is How I Felt When I Saw that Girl). Photo: AFP
Indian Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor Ahuja posing for a picture during the promotion of Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (This is How I Felt When I Saw that Girl). Photo: AFP
Culture /  Film & TV

India’s LGBT community hail Bollywood lesbian romance as a milestone in country’s filmmaking

  • This is How I Felt When I Saw that Girl, starring Sonam Kapoor Ahuja and Regina Cassandra, has been a huge hit among LGBTs in India
  • A coming-out story of a small-town Indian girl, the film intends to normalise gay lives and struggles, and show how love transcends gender

Topic |   Asian cinema
Priti Salian

Updated: 12:26pm, 18 Feb, 2019

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Indian Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor Ahuja posing for a picture during the promotion of Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (This is How I Felt When I Saw that Girl). Photo: AFP Indian Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor Ahuja posing for a picture during the promotion of Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (This is How I Felt When I Saw that Girl). Photo: AFP
Indian Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor Ahuja posing for a picture during the promotion of Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (This is How I Felt When I Saw that Girl). Photo: AFP
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