Directing the Queer Bollywood Rom-Com With Harshavardhan Kulkarni | The Best Parts Podcast

‘Badhaai Do’ writer-director Harshavardhan Kulkarni talks lavender marriages, unlearning stereotypes, and writing a Bollywood style queer romance.
In TS Studios’ The Best Parts podcast, journalist Genesia Alves dissects our favorite films, with a little help from the people who brought them to life.
(In ‘Badhaai Do,’ Shardul, a gay man, and Suman, a lesbian woman, get married to appease their families. However, when Suman's girlfriend moves in with them, their lives become more complex.)
Special thanks to Island City Studios.
Credits:
Host: Genesia Alves
Producer: Aditi Patel
Editing, Sound Design and Mixing: Vibhav Saraf
Associate Producer: Neha Shetty
Marketing Collateral Design: Denise D’souza
Art Director: Neha Shekhawat
Creative Director: Shrishti Malhotra
Executive Producer: Karla Bookman
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[@Shakchi]

This movie is, i have no words. I could go on and on about the impact of the movie on my life alone as a bi girl. I loved it, loved it, loved it. I didn't know how much I needed this movie till I saw it.

[@rollinginthedeep2812]

I had given up on Bollywood till I watched this movie.

[@user-sx1qk6ql6h]

I have a script about life of Gay guy.. pleae do find me !!

[@anirbanghosh1670]

# repost Swaddle why don't ur team write on this issue? Long paragraph alert. But in truth we always see (both in film and in real)that women from matriarchy/feminist/liberal community always choose boy from patriachy / conservative/misogynistic community. I mean we see in hindu and muslim marriage, girl is hindu. , in indian and white community ( American, Russian ,german etc) marriage, girl is white. Within hindu we see bengali, marathi, malayali, assamese (liberal community) women are getting married to men from UP bihar haryana Rajasthan Punjab ( conservative community ) etc. If girl like freedom, respect etc then why more number of liberal community girls married into conservative community? U cant say that in this marriages looks, height, money matters much because white women marrying indian leaving tall fair wealthy white men. Why is that? Simply because liberal community men don't see their girls as their property, that's why they can choose. Liberal community girl doesn't need to marry within community, she obviously can marry out of community but why in more conservative community? In conservative community their girls cant choose their life partner, they are raised in environment where it is programmed in their brain that they has to follow rules unlike their brothers, and she should be indebted if she is given option to study like her brother. Well so, my analysis is liberal girl marry in conservative community because that particular man do not act misogynisticly to her. That man is patriarch when it comes to his sister, but for wife he isn't. Even her in laws also treat that woman differently as she is coming from different community. But that girl don't care if girls in her inlaws family are not getting as much as liberty as her. There is a channel name hindi with jessica, where white married an indian staying in patna. She always glorify hindu indian bihari culture. But as a women she doesn't want to see that it is hell of a difficult for bihari women to get married out of caste to another hindu guy even he is her neighbor. And here her american society gives her freedom to change country and marry man from different religion. But she was never praised her family in her video. She only praised bihar indian culture to get likes from sanskari indian male who would have killed / disown their daughter for doing intercaste marriage. Same happened in my experience many bengali malayali women marry in conservative haryana Rajasthani up families and they act like their in laws society is so good. But i told one bengali girl married in haryana, i ask her to use dual surname to her children and taught them bangla language. She said "thats my choice". I asked her that ur inlaws are allowing u to get married in their family because they treat women as commodity to be used to breed for their caste, ur next generation will have fathers surname and culture , thats why they dont have a problem. If their daughter had wanted to marry outside then she would have been killed as happened in August 2023 in haryana. So here does her choice matter? Should not it be her responsibility to use dual surname to honor her community identity which protect a woman's freedom of choice unlike her husband's community? Because after all she is marrying where women are getting killed in fetus. But no! She doesn't care. If only choice matter then a father also have choice to brainwash his daughter to believe that girls are born to only serve men as wife and there is greatness in it. A father can also have this choice right? Because its not illegal. Liberal women only care about her and sometimes they care about other women, but they never cared about liberal men who raised girls to think freely and have their own opinion. Liberal men are always emasculated by conservative community as women from former ditching their men and married to later. In case of hindu muslim marriage hindu women use her freedom to choose life partner despite knowing that few muslim women have that right. Thats even ok. But why they dont give their children right to choose religion? Why they also brainwash children by learning them father's religion? Their kid should also have freedom of choice to choose religion , shouldn't they? In bollywood movies they would always show this kind of relationship. In vicky donor, in piku, in Rocky rani. All time girl is bengali and boy is punjabi Or thakur from up. Both of these community have lowest sex ratio. They are still killing their women in fetus, also they are doing honor killings if their girl wanna marry outside. It's ridiculous that in movie they show guys from those community turning out to be so good that women from other liberal community (where female foeticide, honor killings don't happen) falling for them. So what's a liberal community man is getting by standing with women in his community? Even in lootera freedom fighter Ranvir is man from up, and sonakshi is bengali. 😂 but at that time whole martial races in North india were busy licking boots of white master, and bengalis like benoy, badal, dinesh were killing britisher. But sadly bengali men or any liberal community men were never recognized. U would find mostly northeast is represented by women but they actually should be represented by men who should be getting the recognition for standing by their women. But it happens opposite, men are recognized where their women are oppressed such as harynavi, afghan, pathan, punjabi, Up. It's truth, people should know this behavior of liberal women and also society. Even female from proper matriarch society like mizoram married so many non-mizo man (not the opposite) that now in mizoram people openly protest against this demographic change, search the news, im not faking. When an ultra modern kolkata women in 1990 got eloped with a afghan Kabuliwal, worn burkha, later got killed, then do u know what other conservative community men told bengali community men? They said , " Tum bangali log itna women empowerment krke kya ukhada tumhri auraton toh burkha pahenke afghanistan bhagti hy, isliye ghar main beta hona jruri hy, aur auraton ko laaj lihaj sikhana chahiye". the people said that,thats why they kill girl child in fetus because they bring dishonor to family. When that women wrote a book name " Kabuliwalar bangali bou" Then all women supported her also!! U people show misogyny soo meticulously in small issue, don't u think this emasculation of liberal men by others including SOME liberal women ( who mostly never acknowledge that she is having all the rights because her community men were different) also need to be shownshown, how SOME liberal women only use the benefit of being born in liberal family by marrying in conservative community and do not teach her language/religion to her children nor her children use her surname. And that's not a good thing for a liberal community as a whole. And in Ukraine russian war, Ukraine women were flying away from their country with non-chirstian man, buy in israel Palestinian war, no Palestinian women is running from country with non -muslim men. Why is that? That means Ukrainian society did it wrong by not brainwashing their daughters enough with religion? Because brainwashed muslm women stayed their in Palestinian as fear of allha is always taught to them. So which community gained here? Liberal Christian or conservative muslm?

[@sami-cyhmi]

​@@knahsahsshashank32 definitely not chatgpt. I can't understand shit.

[@smritinotiraniplease7743]

Ok

[@arunimaverma8130]

...what does that have to do with the video? Also, do you have any stats to back your claims because I couldn't find any. What you're saying with liberal community women marrying men from conservative households is based purely on what you've seen as an individual. That does not hold true for everyone, so your repeated use of the world "always" is incorrect.