text: Sisak (film)
  
  Sisak (2017) is the First Indian Silent LGBTQ Love Story in the format of a short film, starring Jitin Gulati and Dhruv Singhal. It is written and directed by Faraz Arif Ansari and is billed as India’s first silent queer love story. The trailer was launched by Sonam Kapoor on 30 January on Twitter. It has won 59 international awards at various film festivals.
  
  Plot
  Set in Mumbai, the plot follows two young men who regularly take the same local train home. Both the men are quiet and shy, but dare to come close enough to say something to each other, but just can’t bring themselves to open their mouths.
  
  Making
  Ansari exhausted all his savings to make this film as it was refused by Indian studios who weren’t comfortable dealing with a "taboo subject." 
  The post-production spend was gathered from a crowdsourcing campaign through Wishberry.  He raised $6,000 from 109 backers and the shooting was completed in 9 months. 
  The shooting was mostly done in guerrilla style in Mumbai’s local trains.
  
  Reception
  The movie was screened at various film festivals around the world including Cannes, Wicked Queer in Boston, FilmOut San Diego Film Festival, 2017 KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival, prestigious Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg, Outfest Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festival and also the Pune LGBT Festival screening. It has been nominated for the prestigious Iris Prize (an international LGBTQ short film prize).  
  
  The film was give 3.5/5 by a review on TOI and was praised as "A brave film that expresses dissent against section 377 of the Indian Penal Code". The film was nominated for the Satyajit Ray Award.
  
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  Category:Crowdfunded films
  Category:Indian LGBT-related films
  Category:Indian films
  Category:Indian short films
  Category:2017 films
  Category:Silent films