 To some it’s a laugh riot. To others it’s a complete turn-off. But men in drag, with pouting lips smeared with lipstick, mascaraed eyelashes drooping seductively and eye-shadowed eyes giving the come-hither look, have long been a part of Hindi movies. In recent years they have acted as a kind of sub-plot in the story of cinema, cropping up from time to time as a lively diversion from the central plot. But sometimes, drag is used as the main vehicle for the evolution of the storyline, in films like Biwi Aur Makan, Rafoo Chakkar, Mr Shrimati and more recently, Chachi 420 and the forthcoming Aunty No. 1.
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