Was rohit bal gay

Despite being a mammoth name in India's fashion industry, Rohit Bal always kept his personal life under wraps for a long period of time. However, back in September , he publicly announced that he was gay. Rohit Bal was the official name of the person and legend whose passing the world will mourn, but Gudda is what we called him. I first met him at the tender age of Afraid to breathe and exist as a gay man in India, I found in Gudda comfort and solace, a sense of belonging and the ability to have lofty dreams and a voice.

Rohit Bal (8 May – 1 November ) was an Indian fashion designer, known for his designs catering to both men and women. He began his career in , founding Orchid Oversea Pvt. Ltd with his brother, and debuted his independent collection in Popular openly gay Bollywood celebrities include designers like Rohit Bal and filmmakers like Onir, each celebrated for their talent and contributions to the industry. ROHIT BAL, THE legend whose passing the world will mourn, was always Gudda to us.

I first met him at the age of Afraid to exist as a gay man in India, I found in Gudda comfort, a sense of belonging and the ability to have lofty dreams and a voice. The producer of the channel was nervous. The promo about to go on air was an uncensored clip of Rohit Bal saying " I know many ministers, businessmen and leaders who are gay Watch the show. She called me - "Do we have to use the clip?

Last time I checked, it's a free country and surely, he's entitled to his opinion. Besides, being openly gay, Rohit might have insight that we simply can't as straight people.

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It's a candid admission of a person's private feelings. Something my couch and I are proud of coaxing out of our guests. It was a minor altercation that I easily won and the promos went on air unscathed. But it got me thinking. For a gay man in a country that still has an archaic law prohibiting homosexuality, such altercations and prejudices must be part of everyday existence. To survive, I thought, either you have to grow a very thick skin or turn into a Milk-esq activist or go underground or worse, hide from who you really are.

Apparently, I'm wrong. Rohit is as sensitive as a newly-enhanced boob and will cry like a baby at the sight of cruelty, certainly isn't an activist and will die before curbing one shiny sequence in his flamboyant lifestyle. As for hiding from who he is - forget about it. He knows himself better than Freud did and he will never apologise for his choices. So, what then is the secret of his survival? His mantra - don't judge me for who I'm sleeping with but for what I have achieved.

And my lord, he's achieved more than most of us and here I am, guilty of obsessing with who he's choosing to sleep with. Shame on me!

Moving swiftly on, Rohit Bal is one of the few designers that has reinvented his couture lines more times than the reinventions of Madonna. He's constantly pushing the boundary of fashion to my delight. He was the first to put Indian fashion on the international market, the first to 'sexify' the Indian male into an object of desire. This brings me onto the couch, not the red furry one but the casting one he's often accused of.

His retort is so honest and so obvious that I fell in love with him although he's told me point blank I'd never lure him to the other side. According to Rohit, of course there is a casting couch but it's always the other way round. Which means he's not propositioning anyone, it's the aspiring models who offer more like throw themselves at him - I've seen it their services and more in the hope he'll give them a break on the ramp.

His wise words of advice - if you're good enough, have the talent and the look, you are going to be sashaying down the catwalk, couch or no couch. If you are ugly, talentless and desperate, then forget about the ramp, no couch wants you either! I could have chatted to him for at least a day or more but our time on the couch was up.

So, like a true gentleman, he escorted me off the couch in my bold blue Rohit Bal ball gown I felt like a million bucks and we glided our separate ways into the moonlight.