{"id":2173286,"date":"2025-11-23T11:19:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2173286"},"modified":"2025-11-23T11:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:19:15","slug":"trans-love-story-lala-poppy-filmmakers-on-pioneering-film-at-international-film-festival-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/trans-love-story-lala-poppy-filmmakers-on-pioneering-film-at-international-film-festival-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans Love Story \u2018Lala & Poppy\u2019 Filmmakers on Pioneering Film at International Film Festival of India"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kaizad Gustad<\/a> has returned to filmmaking after more than a decade with \u201cLala & Poppy,\u201d a pioneering love story centered on two transgender characters, making its world premiere at the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) in Goa.<\/p>\n

The film marks a significant departure in Indian cinema\u2019s representation of trans narratives, casting actual trans actors Suruj Rajkhowa<\/a> and Veer Singh<\/a> in the lead roles. The story follows Lala, a trans woman, and Poppy<\/a>, a trans man, as they navigate falling in love while undergoing their respective transitions.<\/p>\n

Gustad, known for his 1998 breakout \u201cBombay Boys,\u201d found the inspiration for the project after meeting Rajkhowa five years ago. \u201cI met Suruj Rajkhowa accidentally, and I was really taken in by Suruj<\/a>, their personality and their charisma and their camera friendliness,\u201d Gustad says. \u201cI wanted to tell a story in which gender didn\u2019t play a role after meeting Suruj.\u201d<\/p>\n

The central conceit…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kaizad Gustad has returned to filmmaking after more than a decade with \u201cLala & Poppy,\u201d a pioneering love story centered on two transgender characters, making its world premiere at the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) in Goa. The film marks a significant departure in Indian cinema\u2019s representation of trans narratives, casting actual trans actors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2173287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2173286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Trans-Love-Story-\u2018Lala-Poppy-Filmmakers-on-Pioneering-Film.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2173288,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173286\/revisions\/2173288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2173287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}