Rainbows Are Real ~ about the film

Speculating  the plight of transgenders all over the world, we think that they ought to get their rights and dignity that they deserve.

 Everyday, we expect that initiatives should be taken for the amelioration, but we forget that, the most imperative step is an affirmative action emanating from our behavior.

The film "Rainbows are Real", is our  first step towards depicting the reality of the straight-jacketed  mindset of the society, towards our own people. The film tries to capture the multiple facets of the lives of transgenders through a docu-fiction style of storytelling, along with the use of vibrant colors, indicating the spectrum of emotions in the stories of the characters involved. The evolution of our initiative can be attributed to the heresic beliefs of the society to accept a breed of their own civilization.  

The film intends to use various modes of communication to keep this issue alive in masses and bring a social change. Documentaries are often accused of its boring nature, especially due to the lack of creative camera tricks, and because of the monotonous style of narration.  These accusations can be objected, if the documentaries are more riveting, and are made to depict astounding facts, in an eclectic style.

Likewise, the film intends to set up an  environment which would try to bring the squalor images of the reality. The idea is to have visually pleasing and eye-catching factors like edgy editing and lighting, and other characteristics of documentaries designed to enhance the narration, which would make the experience more cinematic, and infuse a new dynamism in the field, thereby creating a new market for documentaries.

Transgenders have been continously ostracised from every sphere of public lives . This film is an attempt to discover the lives of transgenders and their engagements with society in an increasingly globalised world. The story is presented in a docu-fiction format, where experiences and plight of people from varied backgrounds are depicted. It moves from the launda dancers of Uttar Pradesh, the Aravanis of Tamil Nadu,  to the Hijra community and their complex guru-chela relationship.

The film also sheds light on the landmark Delhi High Court judgment of 2009, which scrapped portions of the Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. Justice Muralidharan quoted the saying of Nehruvian era, ‘Words are magic things often enough, but even the magic of words sometimes cannot convey the magic of the human spirit and of a Nation’s passion (The Resolution) seeks very feebly to tell the world of what we have thought or dreamt of for so long, and what we now hope to achieve in the near future.” 

The film tries to revive the words, and hopes to suffuse the feeling of brotherhood and equality in the genes of the society.

Documentaries, of the aforementioned kind, are generally expected to be dull and depressing, but the film would also try to focus on the dreams, aspirations and inspirations of the transgenders, that help them to surge forward and keep the fight for equality, justice and dignity on.

"Just the genre can't perturb a sense, unless the inner sense gets, by itself"

                                                                                                           

                    - Sruthi Iyer