Coming into his own
“Being in the closet oppresses you, it suppresses you, and you can’t be the person you are,” says filmmaker and now podcast host Mozez Singh
“I don’t have a coming out story to tell,” says Mozez Singh, director of the 2016 Vicky Kaushal-starrer, Zubaan. Sitting in his book-stacked Bandra house, Singh’s references range from Moonlight to Mast Kalandar as he speaks about the LGBTQIA+ community, the community he belongs to. Growing up in Delhi, his is not a story of rejection and isolation. “My friends mostly knew that I was probably gay and when I told my parents, they were more supportive than I could have imagined,” says the Doon School alumnus who credits his years in America as his true coming of age period.

“It doesn’t matter, it shouldn’t matter, and it will not matter if the person identifies as LGBTQIA+. There will be a time when we won’t need these tags like a LGBTQIA+ movie/podcast”
Frankly Speaking
One thing you shouldn’t ask a person who is gay?
Are you gay? How does it matter!
The funniest LGBTQIA+ stereotype in Bollywood?
Anupam Kher in Mast Kalandar (1991). It was awful.
An LGBTQIA+ stereotype that is probably true?
Vinay Pathak in Made in Heaven. The closeted middle-class gay guy…there are so many of them.
An LGBTQIA+ movie that represents the community in its truest spirit?
The one I am planning to make!
An LGBTQIA+ movie that shouldn’t have been made?
Girlfriend (2004). It was horrific. It was made to titillate the perverted straight male audience.
“What one does in the bedroom is a personal choice, but nonetheless it is absolutely important to come out”

“ America gave me lot of independence and it was self-discovery in the truest sense. I began to understand who I really am ”
