The Humour In Badhaai Do Is Not At The Expense Of LGBTQ+ Community: Bhumi Pednekar
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"There was a lot of sensitivity about the LGBTQI community, which is something I really respected," said Bhumi Pednekar
Actor Bhumi Pednekar says her upcoming comedy drama Badhaai Do talks about "love and acceptance" through a sensitive lens, never using its humour against the LGBTQI community to mine cheap laughs The film features Pednekar as a lesbian physical education teacher Sumi, who gets into a marriage of convenience with actor Rajkummar Rao's Shardul Thakur, who the makers teased will be a gay policeman.
The film is billed as a spiritual sequel to the National Award-winning 2018 hit Badhaai Ho. In an interview with PTI, Pednekar said she agreed to do the film half way through its narration as she saw the potential of the project to speak to a large audience.
"What really jumped out for me was that, it is a big franchise which stands for speaking about things that usually make people uncomfortable, but something that we need to accept and normalise "There is a lot of humour in the film, even in the narration I could not stop laughing. But the humour is not degrading, not there to titillate. It is not at the expense of the community".
The actor, whose credits include socially relevant films like Shubh Mangal Saavdhan, Bala and Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare, said Badhaai Do came to her without any dos and don'ts.
