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'Khush' is a 1991Farr and Gauthier, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=EbdfAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA197 197]. British short film directed by Pratibha Parmar. It portrays lesbians and gay men from India and other parts of Asia,Baumgarten, Marjorie. "[http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/1992-02-21/two-by-pratibha-parmar-a-place-of-rage-khush/ Two by Pratibha Parmar: A Place of Rage, Khush]" ([https://www.webcitation.org/6b7XCzT2e Archive]). 'Austin Chronicle'. Friday 21 February 1992. Retrieved on 28 August 2015. discussing their coming out and their acceptance and embracing of their sexuality.Farr and Gauthier, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=EbdfAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA198 198]. 'Khush' also discusses homosexuality in the Indian diaspora.Bravmann, Scott. 'Queer Fictions of the Past: History, Culture, and Difference'. Cambridge University Press, 9 October 1997. , 9780521599078. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=I8mKZGco5N4C&pg=PA110 110].

It includes interviews and has segments of dancing and artwork. In Urdu, "Khush" means "ecstatic pleasure".Kaplan, E. Ann. 'Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze'. Routledge, 10 September 2012. , 9781135208752. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=sprbBYy0bPwC&pg=PA283 283]. This is Parmar's seventh film. 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."Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey. 'Women Film Directors: An International Bio-critical Dictionary'. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1 January 1995. , 9780313289729. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-kJHa7KqnQ4C&pg=PA302 302].

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".

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The film uses the expository interview method where the subjects speak to a camera and the interviewer is not voiced. Parmar does not use narration in the interviews, so the subjects explain matters themselves.

The film includes documentary interviews with dramatized scenes. Parmar edited out the "male gaze" and instead portrays women watching a dancer. This "lesbian gaze" uses the sort of "film-within-film" method used by 'She Must be Seeing Things'.Gupta, Suman, Tapan Basu, and Subarno Chattarji. 'Globalization In India: Contents And Discontents'. Pearson Education India, 30 March 2010. , 9788131719886. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=08dc_ASn6dIC&pg=PA156 156]. She wrote about the process in 'Queer Looks'.

Release



The film won the "Best Documentary" of the 1991 Frameline Film and Video Festival in San Francisco, the "Public Prize" of the 1991 International Women's Film Festival in Madrid, the 1992 "Best Foreign Film" award at the Crteil International Women's Film Festival in Paris, and other awards.

The film was played at the Dobie Theatre Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

It was aired on Channel Four in the United Kingdom and was one of the first LGBT-themed films to do so.Farr and Gauthier, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=EbdfAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA197 197]-[https://books.google.com/books?id=EbdfAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA198 198].

References



*Farr, Daniel and Jennifer Gauthier. "Screening Queer India" in Pratibha Parmar's 'Khush' (Chapter 12). In: Pullen, Christopher. 'LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media'. Palgrave Macmillan. 29 February 2012. , 9780230353510. Start: p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=EbdfAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA197 197].

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Further reading



*Renninger, Bryce J. "Documenting the Queer Indian: The Question of Queer Identification in 'Khush' and 'Happy Hookers'" (Chapter 11). In: Pullen, Christopher. 'LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media'. Palgrave Macmillan. 29 February 2012. , 9780230353510.


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