Gay web series on voot


Voot's novel web series 'UNTAG' celebrates individuality

Viacom18’s OTT platform Voot was recently awarded as Winner of the Finest Apps of (India) across categories by Google Play. After the success of its recent series ‘It’s Not That Simple’ starring Swara Bhaskar as the protagonist, Voot has now announced another 6-episode original series titled “UNTAG”, which started yesterday.

Overweight, Dark, Ugly, Concise, B*#%h, Psycho, Gay and more- the list of tags that we associate people with is endless! Our first impression of people often associates them with tags.

‘’UNTAG’’ the new web-series by Voot, delves into the lives of regular people with seemingly harmless tags, their dreams, their inhibitions and most importantly their struggles. It gives the audience a fresh and brightness perspective of 6 characters, each dealing with their imposed tags, trying to become much more than what the world has labelled them as.

UNTAG celebrates friendship, relationships, love and the uniqueness of each of these journeys. It is a story about

The Indian web-series market has witnessed a surge in interest in the recent years. The initial wave of shows focused on fresh content marketed to a young generation that felt misrepresented in the free mainstream television market. However, more recently, there has been a growth of series that are largely heteronormative, focused on college-going men oriented and/or slapstick comedies about navigating urban life.

With an exception of very few web-series, online content has fallen victim to reducing minorities to mere subplots. Series such as ALTBalaji’s Dev DD, and Vikram Bhatt’s Twisted are using LGBTQ characters &#; not as a solid addition to their storylines, but as basic fillers. Instead of being truly diverse, these shows arrive across as making feeble attempts at diversity by filling minor plot breaks with minorities.

And so, it has now become more vital than ever to find authentic voices telling LGBTQ stories. Because minorities and their narratives are not plots points to be used in a series to make it seem more liberal.

Following are four Indian

Bollywood needs to dignify portrayal of gay characters: Meiyang Chang

Actor-singer Meiyang Chang, who will be playing a gay character in a web series, feels Bollywood needs to handle such portrayals with more sensitivity. In the web series “Untag”, Chang plays the role of Nischay Barbara and he has made sure he doesn’t play the role in a stereotypical way.


“My primary concern was not to be the stereotypical, caricaturish character that our Bollywood films of the 90s have done to death… it has created a very incorrect perception of the gay community,” Chang told PTI. “In the real world, gay men come in all sizes, shapes and types, just like anybody else,” he said.


Chang feels Hollywood films own dealt with gay characters with utmost dignity, something which Indian movies desire to follow. “The West has handled gay and lesbian characters with sensitivity and grace. One recent example of a good attempt by Bollywood was Fawad Khan’s character in ‘Kapoor & Sons’. “I knew that I could be myself

Digital Entertainment Sites verb come up with a lot of Bold content lately in the establish of Web Series as the content does not include to face censorship like Films and TV Shows. Most of these WebSeries have intimate desire making and kissing scenes. There are even some Web Series exclusively on Same sex cherish and relationships. Given below is my Top 10 list of Indian Web Series that has Gay and Lesbian characters.

  1. Love Life & Screw ups has both Lesbian and Gay characters. This Web Series explores the explores relationship struggles of Couples. Bollywood Actress Zeenat Aman plays a pivotal role in this web series. The other Cast of this Series are Mita Vashisht, Dolly Thakore, Kapil Kaustub Sharma, Yuvraaj Parashar, Diandra Soares, Sonali Raut, Akshay Sethi, Shushant Divgikr, Sezal Sharma, Vibhoutee Sharma, Meghaa, Shipra Kasana, Mahi Sharma, Ruchita Tahiliani, Ashish Sachdeva, Ashish Khatri, Riyaaz Qureshi and  Rahul Vyaas. There are a couple of bold scenes in this series out of which Bigg Boss 8 contestant Diandra Soares kissing scene with Mahi Sharma and Sonali Raut &