Saira Banu and Dilip Kumar in 2012 | PTI
When a legend of the stature of Dilip Kumar, who lived a glorious life of close to a hundred years, passes away, tributes pour in. Everyone goes out of their way to say what a great man he was and how much they loved him. This, of course, is how it should be. But how many of us remember that towards the end of the 20th century, Dilip Kumar was a victim of a vicious homophobic attack?
In 1998, Deepa Mehta, the director of Indian origin who lived in Canada, released
Fire, the second film in her trilogy concerning the elements, the first being