Click to play videoMumbai: Filmmaker Amol Palekar's new English film Quest is a disturbing story of a woman who discovers that her husband is gay.
After Daayra and Anahat, this is Palekar's third film in his trilogy on stories with a sexual theme.
But Palekar and his scriptwriter wife Sandhya say Quest is actually about accepting people for who they are.
“This is the last film of the trilogy on man-woman relationship, with a focus on sexuality. Immediately after Paheli, Sandhya started writing the script and was quite excited about this,” says Palekar.
The film stars popular faces from the small screen and theatre, like Mrinal Kulkarni, Shishir Sharma, Rishi Deshpande and Sachin Khedekar.
“The story is actually about the female protagonist of the film. Whether her husband is having a relationship with a man or a woman is something secondary to her. The problem actually arising after the arrival of a third person in their relationship, is actually the focal point,” Sandhya explains.
“It took 2006 to make Brokeback Mountain for the Hollywood mainstream. In the Bollywood mainstream, I don’t think that it is possible to make anything other than the formula or masala films. We like to claim that we are a very tolerant society. But are we really tolerant?” asks Palekar.
Quest is bound to grab some attention because of the subject it deals with. But people associated with film believe that it will do much more than that.
“The film deals with the issue of a woman’s plight and the issue of homosexuality. It will certainly help people to understand that these are all human issues and they are not alien concepts,” says Sandhya.
"'For what political party should I vote for?' and 'what is my sexual preference?' These are the things that a person has a right to choose from. One has to respect the other’s choice,” concludes Palekar.
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