Dunno Y Na Jaane Kyun...

Dunno Y Na Jaane Kyun...

2010 · 134 min · ★ 3.9 · Drama, Romance

Dunno Y...Na Jaane Kyon (English: Don't Know Why) is a 2010 Indian film. The film was directed by Sanjay Sharma and written by his brother Kapil Sharma who also played the lead. It premiered in April 2010 at India's first mainstream gay film festival, the Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival. It features the first gay kiss in Indian cinema between Yuvraaj Parashar and Kapil Sharma. Two young men fall in love with each other but struggle to come to terms on how best to comfortably and securely express it in public. Between family pressures and social taboo on the matter, the fictional gay couple remains closeted lovers and patiently await the day a love as special as theirs may be understood and shared with the world without fear of any backlash.

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