family
by
Douglas Messerli
Priyaank
Gangwani and Rohit Prajapati (screenwriters), Rohit Prajapati (director) Tutti
Frutti Cake / 2025
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This
Hindu Indian cinematic concoction is a celebration, just as the holiday around
which the film’s festivities are centered, of family, food, and light. Produced
by the Geet Theatre and the Humsafar Trust, an organization centered around
family life, however that might be defined, Tutti Frutti Cake begins
with Ishan (Hind Bhatt) attempting to recreate his own father’s special recipe
for the cake is also very nervous. His wonderfully handsome new boyfriend, Raj
(Raazil Clipwala) has agreed to attend the Diwali Festival at Momma Maya’s
house with a large contingent of the LGBTQ community.
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The handsome Raj arrives, greeted by the
numerous guests, including Vinayhan (Shailesh Patel) who has joined the
community as a formerly married man now wearing a sari, along with his finally
accepting daughter (Aarna Kapoor). But Raj is finally insistent that Ishan
invite his own parents to the familial celebration.
In fact, Ishan has, under the lie that he
is ill. But knowing that the father who has rejected him (Vaibhav Biniwale) and
the mother is under his control (Minal Shah) he realizes that will probably
again refuse to attend or accept his being gay; and he is hurt by Raj’s
insistence.
In fact, perhaps because of elderly Maya’s
help, they do show up, so shocking Ishan that in the midst of a joyful dance he
falls and awakens from a brief concussion.
So accepting is the community surrounding
Maya, however, that even Ishan’s father and mother cannot resist the LGBTQ individuals
which have gathered on that evening to celebrate. All’s well that end’s well,
and apologies made by the parents for their desertion of their son are quickly
embraced, while Vinayhan’s daughter passes around Ishan’s version of his father’s
always perfect Tutti Frutti Cake.
Los
Angeles, February 10, 2025
Reprinted
from My Queer Cinema blog (February 2025).
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