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Solaris Pictures
Founded1991
Headquarters
Mumbai
,
India
Key people
Sridhar Rangayan
Saagar Gupta
Website[1]

Solaris Pictures is an Indian film production company based in Mumbai. It was created by Sridhar Rangayan, and Saagar Gupta in 2001. The two have gone on to create several award-winning films under Solaris Pictures' banner, focusing on LGBT issues and HIV/AIDS.

Introduction

Solaris Pictures is an Indian

gay rights.[citation needed
]

Previous productions include:

Bollywood melodrama with international avant-garde film techniques.[1]

Solaris Pictures is the associate producer of Project Bolo, an Indian LGBT oral history project that interviews 20 Indian LGBT people in Mumbai, Pune, Lucknow, and New Delhi.[2]

Solaris Pictures has produced two documentary features about the LGBTQI community in India - Purple Skies (2014) and Breaking Free (2015). Purple Skies highlights the stories of LBGT people victimized and subjugated by the law, the family and society, as well as stories of youngsters who have come out of the closet bravely. The film was telecast on India's National Network Doordarshan in 2015. The film screened at 27 international film festivals.[citation needed]

In

Breaking Free - Sec 377
, filmmaker and gay activist Sridhar Rangayan exposes the human rights violations faced by the LGBTQ community in India due to a draconian law Section 377, and homophobic social mores of a patriarchal society. It won the Barbara Gittings Human Rights Award at qFLIX Philadelphia in 2016. [3]

The company has also collaborated in producing more than 100 hours of television content for serials like Rishtey, Gubbare, Kagaar and has produced advertising for companies like

Life Insurance Corporation of India, H & R Johnson, Godrej, Rupa, Zee TV. Their social awareness films and spots for the National Institute for Hearing Handicapped, Cancer Patients Aid Association and Cama & Albless Hospital have been telecast on both DD National and Mumbai Doordarshan.[citation needed
]

Solaris Pictures is one of the principal organizers of

Alliance Francaise and then in 2011 and 2012 at Cinemax Versova and Alliance Francaise.[citation needed
]

Solaris Pictures has also organized Flashpoint Human Rights Film Festival in Mumbai and New Delhi in 2010/2011 and 2011/2012.[3]

Movies

Evening Shadows

Drama/ 102 mins / India / 2018 / Hindi with English subtitles
Directed by Sridhar Rangayan
Written by: Sridhar Rangayan & Saagar Gupta
Producer: Solaris Pictures

Ananth Narayan Mahadevan), and the conservative society around her. Evening Shadows is a universal story about a mother-son bonding and its emotional strength to withstand the ravages of time and harsh realities.{ Source: imdb} [2]

The film has won 19 awards and screened at 72 international film festivals. It is currently streaming on Netflix.

Breaking Free

Documentary/ 82 mins / India / 2015 / English, Hindi subtitles
Directed by Sridhar Rangayan
Written by: Sridhar Rangayan & Saagar Gupta
Producer: Solaris Pictures

Breaking Free – Sec 377 is a 2015 movie directed by Sridhar Rangayan
and produced by Solaris Pictures. In this documentary, filmmaker and gay activist Sridhar Rangayan embarks on a personal journey to expose the human rights violations faced by the LGBTQ community in India due to a draconian law Section 377 and homophobic social mores of a patriarchal society. The film was selected to be part of the Indian Panorama (non-Fiction) and screened at International Film Festival of India in 2015. [4]

It won the Rajat Kamal

National Award for Best Editing (Non-Fiction) in 2016 for its editors Pravin Angre and Sridhar Rangayan. It also won the Barbara Gittings Human Rights Award at qFLIX Philadelphia in 2016.[5][6]
It is currently streaming on Netflix.[7]

Purple Skies

Documentary/ 66 mins / India / 2014 / English, Hindi subtitles
Directed by Sridhar Rangayan
Written by: Sridhar Rangayan & Saagar Gupta
Producer: Public Service Broadcasting Trust and Solaris Pictures

Purple Skies is a 2014 movie directed by Sridhar Rangayan and produced by Public Service Broadcasting Trust and Solaris Pictures. It documents the opinions of lesbians, bisexuals and trans men in India. It was also broadcast on Doordarshan in 2015.[8]

The documentary film showcases stories of the LGBT community about living in India and is the first documentary on LGBT topics to be screened on a national network, Doordarshan.[9] As of 2015, it has been screened at 27 international film festivals.

68 Pages

Drama/ 90 mins / India / 2007 / Hindi with English subtitles
Directed and Written by Sridhar Rangayan
Producer: Humsafar Trust
Associate Producer: Solaris Pictures

Coming from a country like

HIV+ or even those who just want to be what they are. Through 68 Pages of a counselors diary, we see the stories of Paayal, a sex worker; Nishit, an ID user; Kiran, a gay man and Umrao, a transsexual bar dancer - their stories of pain and fear, humiliation and rejection - not only by the society, but even by their loved ones. While these stories expose the shallowness of the system, it also offers hope and healing by trying to bring about a better understanding of their fight to live with dignity. The film is a tribute to the human spirit of optimism and survival. { Source: imdb} [3]

Yours Emotionally

Drama/Gay / 86 mins / UK-India / 2006
Directed and Written by Sridhar Rangayan
Producer: Wise Thoughts (UK) Associate Producer: Solaris Pictures (India)

Two Brits, Ravi and Paul travel to India where they meet Murthy and Anna an older gay couple that have managed to form a partnership and live together for over 20 years. When Ravi meets and falls for Mani an Indian national who is betrothed to be married. He turns to the older couple for advice and help but traditions die hard in India. {Source: imdb} [4]

The Pink Mirror

Drama/Gay /40 mins / India / 2003 / Hindi wst English
Directed and Written by Sridhar Rangayan
Produced by Solaris Pictures (India)

Bollywood soap idiom of song, dance and drama and for the first time in the Indian drag queens' very own language, Hindi, the film also explores other veiled issues related to the Indian gay community: the lurking threat of HIV/AIDS. {Source: imdb} [5]
The film is screening on Netflix [10]

Awards

Solaris Pictures' films and television projects have won several awards, both Indian and international.

  • Silver Remi Award at WorldFest 2008, Houston (for film "68 Pages")[11]
  • Jury Award for Best Film at ‘Fire Island Film Festival 2004, New York, USA (for film “Gulabi Aaina)
  • Best Film of the Festival award at ‘Question de Genre’ film festival 2003, Lille, France

(for film “Gulabi Aaina)

  • RAPA award for Best Comedy Episode, 1999 (for “Piya Ka Ghar” – Gubbare, Zee TV)
  • RAPA award for Best Telefilm, 2000 (for “Khamoshiyaan” – Rishtey, Zee TV)

References

  1. ^ Film India Worldwide | Festival Touchstone (page 21) | Nov 2007-Jan 2008
  2. ^ "Project Bolo". 24 October 2011.
  3. ^ "Human rights film festival returns in Mumbai - Hindustan Times". Archived from the original on 26 January 2013.
  4. ^ "In a First, LGBT Documentary Makes It to the Indian Panorama". The Better India. 17 November 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  5. ^ "Breaking Free - IMDb". IMDb.
  6. ^ "Sridhar Rangayan on the National Award, gay pride and the road ahead". The Better India. 11 April 2016. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  7. ^ "9 Movies to Watch on Netflix for LGBTQ History Month". newnownext.com. 18 October 2018. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  8. ^ "This Film on LGBTQ Community Was Not Only Aired on DD but Also Given a 'U' Certificate". The Better India. 15 September 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  9. ^ "Doordarshan telecasts film on LGBT for the first time". Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  10. ^ https://www.netflix.com/in/title/80106364
  11. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 February 2009. Retrieved 3 December 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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