Award winning Indian filmmaker and gay activist Sridhar Rangayan’s narrative feature “Evening Shadows” will have its World Premiere in Sydney at the 25th Queer Screen Mardi Gras Film Festival on February 25th at the Event Cinemas. The film recently received a U/A certificate by the Indian censor board, in a landmark decision that offers hope to the Indian LGBTQ community.  Set in a small town in Southern India, the film Evening

So, we begin our series of end of year/decade lists, and we’ll start off with highlighting some of the visuals that have delighted us since 2000. And at #10, it’s “Raat ka Nasha” from Santosh Sivan’s, Asoka, a very fictionalized account of the Indian emperor. As expected from a Santosh Sivan offering, the film is a visual feast, though somewhat lacking in plot and story. The soundtrack is a must