Debalina Majumder
Gay India Matrimony
Three characters in search of a same-sex spouse
Year:
2019
Length:
67 min
Country:
India
Language:
Bengali
Director:
Debalina Majumder
SYNOPSIS
Gay India Matrimony is a film that revolves around three characters exploring their marriage prospects, with one of them documenting their travails. While Sayan and Gourab are assigned male at birth, Debalina, the director of the film, is assigned female. All three of them are looking for a same- gender partner, and the very suggestion of them wanting to marry one drives everybody around into a tizzy.
about the director
Debalina Majumder, an alumni of the Berlinale Talent Campus, studied Comparative Literature and worked in television before branching off on her own to produce documentaries, short films, travelogues, music videos, telefilms and mixed genre audio-visual works. Her fiction film, If You Dare Desire (2017), was given the Diversity Award at the 18th Barcelona International LGTB Film Festival and Best Film Award, Gender at the 6th Woodpecker Festival, New Delhi (2018).
