The action begins when a gay sex worker is found dead, his stomach ripped open, in a toilet at a Mumbai railway station. The plot thickens as good friends Peter Fernandes (played by Ashutosh Rana in the series), a retired journalist and Shiva Jende ((played by Vijay Raaz), a cop piece the clues together even as the body count keeps rising. It also leads Peter into uncharted territory, navigating “gay Mumbai” and coming to terms with the fact that his son may be queer. In some delightful cameos, we have Leslie, a flamboyant and ageing gay man and Unit, a young upwardly mobile sex worker.
The book, he says, was born out of anger when the Supreme Court reversed the Delhi High Court ruling decriminalising gay sex in 2016. However, on September 6, 2018, the apex court partially struck down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, decriminalising same-sex relations between consenting adults.
Listen in as Pinto talks about how we exist on the spectrum of possibilities and whether we can look forward to more peter-Jende thrillers!
Chapters:
01:03 The book was born out of anger, before homosexual sex was decriminalised
04:00 Eating what he wrote as a child
05:17 Characters Peter Fernandes and Shiva Jende first appeared in the Mumbai Noir anthology; the author as an observer
09:10 “Would you welcome having an LGBTQI child?”
14:50 When a Dalit friend came home for dinner
21:30 The visual thrill of the human body
23:06 His own discovery of “gay Mumbai”: Research is other people
25:35 Many layers to gay sexuality
28:50 Mumbai is like a large open-air casino; physical vs abstract intelligence
34:10 “We are a parade of possibilities”
37:30 Jerry as “Jotin Perry”; writing an honest cop
41:50 More Peter-Jende mysteries?
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