Cast: Aishwarya Ayushmaan, Aneez Saikia, Daniella Mendonca, Sadam Hanjabam, Sanam Choudhary, Soham Sengupta, Suresh Ramdas, and Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju
Director: Jaydeep Sarkar, Hridaye A. Nagpal, and Shubhra Chatterji
Meet the cast of Rainbow Rishta, a vibrant ensemble: Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju, a doctor, actor and influencer; Aishwarya Ayushmaan, a human rights lawyer by day and drag queen Lush Monsoon by night; Daniella Mendonca, a joyful intersex woman with the best punchlines, and her fiancé Joel;. Aneez Saikia and Sanam Choudhary, a dynamic young queer couple from Guwahati; Soham Sengupta and Suresh Ramdas, a gay couple who have been together for six years; and Sadam Hanjabam, a shy activist from Imphal who remains haunted by past trauma. Each one has a fascinating story and in Rainbow Rishta, we see them looking to start a new phase of their lives. Trinetra and Sadam go online, looking for love. Suresh wants Soham to open up to the idea of therapy, to make their relationship stronger. Ayushmaan, nicknamed “Virgin Queen” by friends, agrees to go on a blind date. Daniella and Joel decide to have a big, fat, Bhayander wedding. Aneez and Sanam want to move in together, without camouflaging the fact that they’re a couple. Their everyday struggles should resonate with viewers, irrespective of background and persuasion, and yet Rainbow Rishta holds one’s attention only sporadically.