Yesterday, Mumbai saw the curtains come down on Kashish, the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) film festival, which ran through the end of last week, at two venues in the city Alliance Francaise de Bombay and Liberty Theatre, Marine Lines.

The latter venue made the festival truly historic. For the first time, this fest seemed to have catapulted into a mainstream, highly visible space. The Liberty may have lost its sheen from the older days, as it is now a single-screen theatre in an age of multiplexes.