Bollywood stars who played LGBTQIA+ characters on screen

Madhuri Dixit starred as a closeted lesbian mother in Maja Ma

Rajkummar Rao played a gay cop who enters a marriage of convenience, in Badhaai Do

Bhumi Pednekar starred in Badhaai Do as a lesbian gym teacher who enters into a Lavender marriage

Gulshan Devaiah played a pivotal role in Badhaai Do as a gay lawyer

Aligarh saw Manoj Bajpayee star as Ramchandra Siras , a gay professor

Kalki Koechlin played a girl with cerebral palsey who falls in love with a woman, in Margarita With A Straw

Fire saw Nandita Das portray a young woman neglected by her husband who falls in love with her sister in law

Shabana Azmi played a woman who falls in love with her sister in law, in Fire

Fawad Khan starred in Kapoor and Sons as a successful writer who hides the fact that he is gay from his family

Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga starred Sonam Kapoor as a closeted lesbian

Vaani Kapoor starred as a trans woman in Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui

Ayushmann Khurrana plays a gay man who pretends to be his partner's friend in Shubh Mangal Saavdhan

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