Khush (film)

Khush is a 1991[1] British short film directed by Pratibha Parmar. It portrays lesbians and gay men from India and other parts of Asia,[2] discussing their coming out and their acceptance and embracing of their sexuality.[3] Khush also discusses homosexuality in the Indian diaspora.[4]

It includes interviews and has segments of dancing and artwork.[2] In Urdu,[1] "Khush" means "ecstatic pleasure".[5] This is Parmar's seventh film.[1] Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, the author of Women Film Directors: An International Bio-critical Dictionary, wrote that Khush was "one of [Parmar's] best-known lesbian-centered films."[6]

The director stated that Khush was written as a "dialogue" involving South Asian LGBT diasporas. E. Ann Kaplan, author of Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze, stated that Khush "addresses the dual formation of colonialism as patriarchical and homophobic-a homophobia that uncannily found an echo within Indian culture itself".[5]

  1. ^ a b c Farr and Gauthier, p. 197.
  2. ^ a b Baumgarten, Marjorie. "Two by Pratibha Parmar: A Place of Rage, Khush" (). Austin Chronicle. Friday 21 February 1992. Retrieved on 28 August 2015.
  3. ^ Farr and Gauthier, p. 198.
  4. ^ Bravmann, Scott. Queer Fictions of the Past: History, Culture, and Difference. Cambridge University Press, 9 October 1997. ISBN 0521599075, 9780521599078. p. 110.
  5. ^ a b Kaplan, E. Ann. Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze. Routledge, 10 September 2012. ISBN 1135208751, 9781135208752. p. 283.
  6. ^ Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey. Women Film Directors: An International Bio-critical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1 January 1995. ISBN 0313289727, 9780313289729. p. 302.