Movie Review: Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga - Bollywood flirts with the idea of a lesbian love story.
Sweety is plagued by her family’s constant marriage inquiries when she meets Sahil , a flailing playwright who is instantly smitten with her. So smitten, in fact, that he travels to her small hometown and opens an acting school in an attempt to spend more time with her. After months of his persistence, she finally tells him that she’s in love with a woman. Unfazed, Sahil recalibrates and commits himself to helping her tell her family in the only way he knows how: an elaborate musical play.
The world still has a long way to go to fully accepting identities that outside of centuries-old cultural norms, but there was a moment when, while seeing in a packed theater in Midtown Manhattan, I looked around at my fellow theatergoers with a smile on my face. Filled with melanated immigrants, people who looked like my parents, and curious New Yorkers of all walks of life, my theater was eagerly watching a Bollywood lesbian love story unfold in front of us.Shelly Chopra Dhar, Gazal Dhaliwal ; Shelly Chopra Dhar, Gazal Dhaliwal; Gazal Dhaliwal ; P.G.