Rajkummar Rao is gearing up for the release of his upcoming film Badhaai Do, which also stars Bhumi Pednekar. The trailer of the film has already been released and presents how Rajkumar and Bhumi, who are gay, decide to marry each other so that they can live like flatmates while in a relationship with their respective partners. . However, it is also being said that Rajkumar’s marriage to Bhumi in the film, hiding his sexuality is somewhere accepting and supporting homophobia.
In an exclusive chat with News18.com, the Kai Po Che actor was also asked the same to which he agreed and said that marriage is not an ideal solution in such cases. “Right. This is not the ideal situation. I totally agree with that. But there are a lot of people in the society and I have personally met some of them who are in this system. So this is a story about those people. ”, said the prince.
Apart from this, Rao also mentioned that the representation of gay people in Bollywood films is changing and Badhaai Do is an example of the same. “I don’t know about others, but many people will notice (the representation of homosexuality in Congratulations) and things will change. Cinema is definitely moving from where it was before. We are experimenting with stories now. And I hope that it will have a lot more representation and it will be far more inclusive than it used to be.”
The actor spoke about playing a gay cop in the film and said that he is happy that his character is breaking gender stereotypes. He said, “A lot of people have been telling me, I am very happy that my character is breaking stereotypes.”
Without any information, Badhaai Do is a spiritual sequel to the 2018 film Badhaai Ho. The film is directed by Harshvardhan Kulkarni and written by Akshat Ghildiyal and Suman Adhikari. Apart from Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar, the film also stars Seema Pahwa, Sheeba Chadha, Lovleen Mishra, Nitish Pandey and Sakshi Bhushan in pivotal roles. Badhaai Do will release in theaters on February 11.
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