India’s penal code still rules against the gays – and many nationals don’t approve of the lavender set – but that doesn’t deter actor Samir Soni, who’s hoping playing gay in a new film, Fashion will boost his career:
“This is one of the most challenging roles of my career and I am looking forward to justify it with my performance,” says Samir.
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Samir, who plays the character of a gay designer, says it is has been the most challenging role of his career so far and the actor is thrilled about this unusual role in the film.“When I heard about the character, I felt this is what I was looking for a challenging and refreshing role. And I decided to act in the film,” says Samir, who is more famous as a model despite acting in films and TV serials.
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The actor says that though his character was a little unusual for him but his experience in the modeling field helped him a lot to understand the role.“As a a model I have lots of gay friends and I also know many gays very closely. So, I didn’t face any problem in understanding the character,” says Samir.
If nothing else, Soni’s sure to garner a lot of new fans…
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Trenton
So being a model and having gay friends is enough to understand how to play gay…
Not that Bollywood produces anything but stereotypes and remakes and rehashings anyways, but this is going to be velly, velly much bad.
faghag
Why is it that evcerytime a straight actor gets to play a gay charachter, they can’t stop harping on about how “challenging” the role is?
Gay actors have been acting straight for years, now that’s what I call challenging.
DylanBD
Ya’ll see the story over at Towleroad this morning?
The Indian Minister of Health is advocating decriminalization of homosexuality. Encouraging.
http://www.towleroad.com/2008/08/indian-health-m.html
Akhil
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