Talk:Yours Emotionally

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Dear Wikipedia administrators,

I am Sridhar Rangayan, director, co-writer and co-producer of the film Yours Emotionally. I just read with great consternation the discussion about deletion of article on this film. I am, frankly, yet trying to understand reasons for the dispute.

1) The film has been made, screened, reviewed, distributed. So how can there be a dispute about its existence?

2) The film has been reviewed by Variety- This definitely is a mainstream respectable publication ; Bay Area Reporter; East Bay Express; India Currents; India New England; Murphy's Movie Reviews; New York Times This Link is working!

3) News about the film features in prominent Indian newspapers, etc - Telegraph; Hindustan Times; Mumbai Mirror (Some links have been deleted, so links to their saved jpeg images are provided) Upperstall;

3) It has screened at more than 10 festivals - both queer (Frameline, NewFest, etc) and non-queer (IAAC, Seattle, Prague Bollywood Film Festival, etc):
 * Tasveer - 4th Independent South Asian Film Festival, Seattle, USA. October 6, 2007; 7.00pm
 * Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center- The Village, Renberg Theatre, Los Angeles. Jan 24th, 8-10pm
 * Santa Fe Film Festival. Santa Fe Film Center, Santa Fe, USA. December 14, 7.45pm
 * Yours Emotionally! (Rialto Filmtheater, Amsterdam, Netherlands.). November 5, 4.45pm
 * Sixth Annual IAAC Film Festival (Maya Deren Theatre, New York, USA.). November 4, 6pm
 * "A MILLION DIFFERENT LOVES!?" (Gdansk, Poland). November 2-4, 2006
 * "A MILLION DIFFERENT LOVES!?" (Lodz, Poland). October 22; 10.30 am
 * Prague Bollywood Festival, Prague. October 15; 8pm
 * Fire Island Fim and Video festival. Sept 13th - 16th 2006.
 * Frameline 30 - San Fransisco International LGBT Film Festival 2006. Sat, Jun 24, 6:00 pm -Roxie Film Centre.
 * NewFest 2006 The 18th New York LGBT Film Festival. Fri, Jun 9, 5:45 pm -AMC Loews 34th St Theatre 10.

c) The film has been distributed by a reputed distributor Waterbearer Films and can be found listed on several sites like Amazon ; TLA Videos ; Netflix ; Green Cine ; Facets Multimedia

The film is definitely a small budget indie film which doesn't have the backing of multi million dollar promotion and marketing, but it surely has a place in wikipedia. It is one of the few film that honestly depict the Indian homosexual scenario which still remains largely closeted. It is considered an useful resource for LGBT studies and indian queer cinema.

I request someone to please look at the above information and edit, modify the wikipedia pages of this film accordingly so that it is saved from deletion. I do not really know how all this information can be added to the wikipedia page, since I am not conversant with the formatting or appropriate langauge to be used. I hope someone helps out.

Thanks and regards

Sridhar Rangayan

Director

sridhar.rangayan@gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.134.149.112 (talk) 10:40, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

SYNOPSIS

Two best friends, Ravi and Paul, go on vacation to India where they attend an all night, eye-opening gay sex party. Surprised by the openness of their hosts and the aggressiveness of the guests, the boys fall into the steadily growing Indian gay culture. Ravi is especially bitten hard as he falls for the good looking but deeply closeted Mani. Will caste, economics and customs allow these two love birds a happy ending or will the forces of tradition and homophobia keep them apart? Fueled by flirting, erotic performances and open sex, “Yours Emotionally” is a revealing film about the growing Indian gay community. The camera lingers over the hot bodies of Indian men and never shirks from giving gay men a sexuality seldom seen from this part of the world. Sridhar Rangayan uses both traditional and experimental film techniques to build a story of love, compassion and truth in a society that is only now beginning to accept gay people for who they are.

Source - TLA Videos 

Sumeet38 16:41, 22 February 2007 (UTC) Sumeet