Jaydeep Sarkar

Filmmaker. Writer. Wanderer. Conspiracy theory enthusiast.

[Jaydeep Sarkar @sarkarjaydeep]

Welcome to Khoya Mahal!

[prime video IN @PrimeVideoIN]

welcoming you with ✨ glitz and glitter ✨

#PrimeVideoPresents
#KhoyaMahalOnPrime #ItStartsHere

[Jaydeep Sarkar @sarkarjaydeep]

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[Sudhir Mishra @IAmSudhirMishra]

Thank you . I almost lost faith in the audience after it failed . I think it’s my most accomplished work.Shantanu and Swananand have hit it out of the park with every song .
Kyon naye naye se dard ki firaq mein , talash mein UDAAS hai Dil .Tell me a better line in a Hindi film.

[Srivathsan Nadadhur @vathsanatheart]

#KhoyaKhoyaChand is such a timeless album, offering a fabulous and a visually, musically delectable throwback to Hindi cinema's early years.. Just wow

[Jaydeep Sarkar @sarkarjaydeep]

Thank you @BAFTA for this incredible honour. I am so deeply moved and so so thrilled to be a part of the BAFTA family. I eagerly look forward to our journey together

Thank you @netflix @NetflixIndia for your love and encouragement.

#BaftaBreakthrough

[BAFTA @BAFTA]

As showrunner and series director, Jaydeep Sarkar wanted to showcase queer joy in India like it had never been seen before in groundbreaking series Rainbow Rishta.

Read more 👉 https://t.co/zE2WJADbic

[Jaydeep Sarkar @sarkarjaydeep]

@historywali @kalapian_ @samarmumbaikhan Arrey arrey! Love how our little film is so fondly remembered and celebrated by so many! Thanks ya @kalapian_ for this love!!! Did you not know your wife worked on this film?

[Ghulam Abbas Shah @ghulamabbasshah]

"If mothers ran the world, there would be no hate, no wars.

#ArshadNadeem's mother: 'Neeraj Chopra is like a son to me. I prayed for him too.' (courtesy indyurdu)

#NeerajChopra's mother: 'We're happy with silver. The one who won gold (Arshad Nadeem) is also my child.'" (Courtesy ANI)

#India #Pakistan #Olympics #GOLD

[Jaydeep Sarkar @sarkarjaydeep]

A weekend made of dreams!

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[Jaydeep Sarkar @sarkarjaydeep]

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[The Cinéprism @TheCineprism]

5. 🎬Shaurya (2008)

A military lawyer defends an officer accused of killing his commanding officer, revealing deeper issues of honor, patriotism, and justice within the armed forces.

[Jaydeep Sarkar @sarkarjaydeep]

This thread is gold level satire! Except it’s real!!!!

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

#CalcuttaHighCourt Circuit Bench at Jalpaiguri is hearing a plea moved by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) over a lioness being named “SITA.”

A single bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya is hearing the plea.

#VHP #CalcuttaHC

[Jaydeep Sarkar @sarkarjaydeep]

This was such a lovely chat, @erinefraser @matt_bowes! 💖

[The Telegraph @ttindia]

Prime Video's #RainbowRishta, earns a historic nomination at the #GLAAD Media Awards for its poignant portrayal of six real-life love stories within the Indian LGBTQIA+ community. Here’s why we loved the docu-series.

@glaad

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[Jaydeep Sarkar @sarkarjaydeep]

@BhattRohin Wow!!! Congratulations! ❤️

[Jaydeep Sarkar @sarkarjaydeep]

Chuffed to have made it to a varied bunch of year end lists :)

1. https://t.co/R6ymdxvXO0

2. https://t.co/FNCEI1OVK8

3. https://t.co/z7rfbzmAvS

4. https://t.co/DWQilM00ni

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[Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 @nilanjanaroy]

+ Watch the series; it makes serious points but is also so warm and joyful.

Director Jaydeep Sarkar on what it took to capture the aspirations, heartbreak and strong bonds of the six protagonists.

https://t.co/UB09U0Lhyd

[Jaydeep Sarkar @sarkarjaydeep]

This so special & surreal! And very important- for calling out ‘atrocity porn’! While @SaimSadiq14’s ‘Joyland’ is probably the best film I have seen this year, what Indian creators are putting out in the name of ‘representation’ is so shoddy and offensive!

[Mayank Shekhar मयंक शेखर @mayankw14]

Besides the fact there is a French Beach in Karachi, what I learnt from Saim Sadiq’s film Joyland (2022) is that an unborn child’s sex determination is legal in Pakistan.

Unlike in India. As you can tell in the family drama, where the grand old patriarch is craving a male grandchild from his two sons.

The ultrasound delivers a false-positive report for a boy once. The result could be correct, the second time on. Joyland is easily the most feted Pakistani film in the art-house scene—the first to win an award at Cannes. It officially dropped online, recently, on Mubi.

I watched it with immense interest, finally—for how it is aesthetically delightful, checking all the boxes: authentic performances, gentle camerawork, grey characters, and a world so geographically close to Indians, of course, and yet so politically far.

At its margins is the story of a fling between a gay man and a transgender dancer. That the film was initially banned in Pakistan, before a limited release, tells me the homosexuality laws, first put in place by the British, continue to prevail.

It would be the same Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code since 1860.

A society that criminalises love, of any kind, actively legalises hate. To be fair, the Indian Supreme Court struck down 377, eventually, only on September 6, 2018!

One of Joyland’s lead actors is a transgender person, Alina Khan, playing the transgender role, Biba. Which can’t be said for transgender roles in Indian cinema over decades.

A reason the transgender activist Gauri Sawant said she wished former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen to play her in the biopic Taali (2023, Jio Cinema)—she had already led such a dark life, full of insurmountable challenges.

She wanted someone beautiful to depict her on screen, for starters. Sen was Sawant’s personal choice. Seeking beauty, whether in art or otherwise, is a birthright—well-known realities are secondary.

Joyland, named after an amusement park in Lahore, is altogether a joyless film. As are most films/series/docs with LGBTQ+ characters, on occasion, tending towards atrocity porn. Consider the sheer ugliness in an equally recent film, Haddi (2023), with Nawazuddin Siddiqui as a transgender don.

Why is the recent, six-part, LGBTQ documentary series, Rainbow Rishta (2023), on Amazon Prime Video, produced by Vice Studios, following six stories, across economic classes and geographies so different?

Column link in 1st comment👇🏽 ‘The rain-bow and Cupid’s arrow!’

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More than a year after its world premiere in Busan, Maagh- The Winter Within, has its first review in a broadsheet newspaper in India, by @RohanNaahar for @IndianExpress @zyhssn @iamshankerraman

https://t.co/i1kq69fPjl

[The Center @LGBTCenterNYC]

"The creators of VICE Studios latest docuseries, Rainbow Rishta, share their vision, talk about representation, queer joy and healing in community."

more via @VICE

https://t.co/61miaQDRTj

[IndiaToday @IndiaToday]

Though most content on LGBTQIA+ folks generally focuses on the social discrimination and violence the community faces, the six-episode series on Amazon Prime Rainbow Rishta, chose to go another way. For the full story, including an interview with director and executive producer Jaydeep Sarkar, check out the Leisure section in this week’s issue of #IndiaTodayMagazine: https://t.co/IziFv8VjVt

#RainbowRishta #AmazonPrimeIndia

[Jaydeep Sarkar @sarkarjaydeep]

What a fun weekend this was! #Stillrecovering

Rainbow Lit Fest: Celebrating Queer Histories, Embracing Realities & Envisioning an Inclusive Future https://t.co/mVlHfep4JF via @EVENTFAQS

[Rainbow Literature Festival @RainbowLitFest]

🌈 Let's begin the first session at the #RainbowLitFest with a conversation between @sarkarjaydeep & @gottaservesome at the #SpotlightTalk on #RainbowRishta a medium to explore diverse voices, compelling stories, and a celebration of love! 📖❤️