Indian film talkshow The Front Row with Anupama Chopra discusses alternative sexuality in Bollywood this week.

Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival director Sridhar Rangayan, openly gay filmmaker Onir, director Karan Johar and actors Randeep Hooda and Saqib Saleem were guests on the show, broadcasting tonight at 8.30pm.

The guests discuss the recently released Bombay Talkies, an anthology of four short films including one, directed by Johar about a gay relationship.

India’s premier LGBT film festival has invited the director of Cardiff’s Iris Prize festival to take part in judging this year’s films.

Berwyn Rowlands will sit on the five strong jury at Kashish – also known as the Mumbai Queer Film Festival. It will be held from 22 to 26 May.

An Indian filmmaker will be bringing Mumbai's gay film festival to Britain, screening work in venues including one of London's oldest cinemas.

Sridhar Rangayan will show movies from the Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, as well as a collection of his own films, in Brighton and the UK capital from now until 30 November.

Gay filmmaker Sridhar Rangayan is seeking crowd-funding for his documentary about the repeal of the Section 377, the Indian law that criminalized homosexual sex.

After a long campaign by LGBT groups, the law was repealed by Delhi High Court on 2 July 2009, but that decision is currently being challenged in the Supreme Court.

Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival opens on Wednesday and will show 120 films from 30 countries over five days at two venues.

Highlights of the recently announced schedule include Rites of Passage, about an Indian woman in the US having gender realignment surgery, We Are Outsiders, about the traditional Indian Hijra (transgender) community and Family Khusreyan Di, a mainstream comedy in which a Hijra saves a village.

India's most mainstream queer film festival, Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, is trying out the trend of social media generated crowd-funding for it's third festival.

India’s biggest international queer film festival is asking ‘everyone’ to help design its official poster, amid an ongoing court case to repeal gay sex, and give an expression to the LGBT community.

The winning design will be featured as hoardings, print and online advertisements, catalogue cover, banners, cinema slides and delegate cards for KASHISH 2012. The awards include an award plaque, a copy of the poster, an official T-shirt and a guest pass for all the events from 23 to 27 May in Mumbai.