It wouldn't be wrong to say that the trajectory of Evening Shadows, an award-winning film about a son coming out to his mother, coincides with that of the Indian LGBTQ movement's milestones. The film's story had been on director Sridhar Rangayan's mind for several years before it transformed into a script - much like how the queer community in the country had to wait for decades, battling fear, hatred and misconceptions, before it could embrace its own identity openly.

The film was released in the festival circuit in early 2018, when consensual sex among adult homosexual men in India was still a crime. And now, in the first Pride month after the landmark Supreme Court verdict that decriminalised homosexuality, it is ready for a theatrical release.