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A scene from Blue Flower. Sunil Babu Pant had just founded the Blue Diamond Society when he met a gay man who told him his family had forced him to get married to a woman despite him not wanting to. This plagued Pant a lot, who, while growing up in Gorkha, faced something similar. “I was put under pressure but got out because I was financially independent and educated, but not everyone is as fortunate as me,” says Pant. This story had been on his mind for a long time and in 2012, after leaving the Constituent Assembly to take care of his partner, he started to write the man’s story down. He wanted to make a film on the issue and after nearly a decade of writing the story for the film, Pant, on Wednesday, premiered Blue Flower in Kathmandu. The film is very simple. It tells the story of Tilak, a young gay man from rural Nepal who is forced to get married by his mother who tells him she will kill herself if he runs away again. The marriage not only affects Tilak but also Urmila, h...