Buy This: Amazing Art That Turns Bollywood Heroes Into Queer Icons

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Mili, a young quirky artist and pop-culture enthusiast, draws queer retrograde spin-offs of our ninetees macho celebrities, and you too can get your hands on these.

Tempted To Touch?

The actors who were oozing with sex appeal and rugged manly machoness have been given a different perspective via graphic designer, Mili Sethia. Shakti Kapoor, Ranjit Bedi, Aamir Khan, and even Aditya Pancholi can be seen through her rainbow-coloured glasses in her art.

It began with a win-win exchange with her boss: A mini-bar for this life-sized Shakti Kapoor painting, she said, and that she got.

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These are available as framed A4-sized digital prints and are priced at INR 999. With each of these conversation-inducing, giggle-starting and in many ways even empowering artworks, comes a funny note of motivation for each to be their own kind of unicorn, and not be defined by gender.

She also makes queertraits, which are portraits of you, or anyone you choose through rainbow tinted glasses. The price per subject is INR 599.

You can buy her available works here. Check out her Facebook page or call her on +919920780335.

So, We’re Saying…

We Love it. Want it. Getting it. It’s great to see a subversion on the greats of that time, and to see this role reversal.