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Breaking the Binaries
India Today
|December 22, 2025
THE SHORT HOLY CURSE CHALLENGES GENDER BINARIES AND TRIES TO BROADEN THE SOUTH ASIAN LENS IN THE WEST
In Holy Curse, an androgynous adolescent finds herself forced to submit to a ritual to "cure" her queerness.
Astutely written and directed by US-based Indian filmmaker Snigdha Kapoor, the short film, available on The New Yorker's YouTube channel, is hoping to make the Oscar shortlist in the Best Live Action Short Film category.
Helping Snigdha to achieve this is executive producer Lilly Singh, a popular Canadian YouTuber and actress better known by her former pseudonym 'Superwoman'.
This story is from the December 22, 2025 edition of India Today.
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