Breaking Free (film)

Breaking Free is a 2015 film by Sridhar Rangayan, produced by Solaris Pictures. The film revolves around filmmaker and gay rights activist Sridhar Rangayan exposing the human rights violations faced by the LGBTQ community in India. The film was selected to be part of the Indian Panorama (non-Fiction) and screened at International Film Festival of India in 2015. ^[1]

Breaking Free
Directed by	Sridhar Rangayan
Written by	Sridhar Rangayan, Saagar Gupta
Produced by	Solaris Pictures
Distributed by	Solaris Pictures
Release date	29 May 2015 (2015-05-29)
Running time	82 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi/ English

It won the Rajat Kamal National Award for Best Editing (Non-Fiction) in 2016 for its editors Pravin Angre and Sridhar Rangayan. It also won the Barbara Gittings Human Rights Award at qFLIX Philadelphia in 2016.^[2][3] It is currently streaming on Netflix.^[4]

Cast

• Anand Grover
• Arvind Narrain
• Ashok Row Kavi
• Jaya Sharma
• Manohar Elavarthi
• Maya Sharma
• Pallav Patankar
• Shobhna Kumar
• Sridhar Rangayan
• Vivek Anand