Filmmaker Sridhar Rangayan has made films on the LGBT community before, but his current self-funded documentary — Breaking Free, which releases at the end of this year — seeks to answer some questions a typical heterosexual individual often mumbles to himself/herself. “What is the LGBT community’s problem? What is it that they want? — that’s what I’ve been hearing about the LGBT community for years now. Breaking Free is the answer to all these questions,” says Rangayan.

Kokilaben, a transgender from Bangalore who was, a few years ago, harassed by the cops citing Section 377