UAE bans Indian gay rom-com «Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan»

Bollywood gay romantic comedy was touted as India’s first gay male romantic comedy.

A Bollywood gay film has been banned in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), home to a sizeable South Asian community, the director said on Friday as his new movie hit theatres in India.

The film will not be screened in theatres in the predominantly Muslim UAE, a desert country of around 10 million people where gay sex is illegal, said filmmaker Hitesh Kewalya.

«Yes, it’s banned», he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by text message, adding that he had no further details about the move, Telegraph India reports.