UN / CELINA JAITLEY

Bollywood actress and humanitarian Celina Jaitly said that “the legal system has to change with the changing times”, and when it comes to LGBT issues in India “it has not changed.” UNIFEED / RECENT

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:04
• Production Date: 5 May 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - OHCHR
• Subject Topical: DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN RIGHTS; FINE ARTS; LITERATURE; MUSIC; LESBIAN; GAY; BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER; HUMAN RIGHTS
• Geographic Subject: INDIA
• MAMS Id: 1012954

Description

STORY: UN / CELINA JAITLEY
TRT: 2.04
SOURCE: UNIFEED - UNTV / OHCHR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS

DATELINE: 5 MAY 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

5 MAY 2014, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, dais
3. Med shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Celina Jaitley, Actress and United Nations Equality Champion:
"No culture can be held responsible for how they were a couple of hundred years ago for what the situation is today. The only people who are responsible it’s right now, I would say, it’s the current judiciary. They need to revise old laws. That’s why we have a supreme court. That’s why we have a legal system. The legal system also has to change with the changing times, and unfortunately when it comes to LGBT issues, it has not changed.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Celina Jaitley, Actress and United Nations Equality Champion:
"Changing of attitudes while fighting discrimination does not just begin with changing laws and policies. You also need to make a change of hearts and minds. And this is what the welcome is trying top bring to you."
7. Med shot, journalists
8. Wide shot, end op presser

RECENT – OHCHR - 30 APRIL 2014, MUMBAI, INDIA

9. Pan right, participants at the launch of “the Welcome” music video

RECENT – OHCHR – INDIA

10. Various shots “the Welcome” music video

Storyline

Bollywood actress and humanitarian Celina Jaitly said today (5 May) that “the legal system has to change with the changing times”, and when it comes to LGBT issues in India “it has not changed.”

Jaitly was at the United Nations in New York to promote a Bollywood-style video called 'The Welcome', made to end the prejudice that forces millions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people to live in fear or hide in shame.

She stressed the need to change these discriminatory laws that were inherited from British colonial rule, bud pointed out that "changing of attitudes while fighting discrimination does not just begin with changing laws and policies. You also need to make a change of hearts and minds"

The music video for “The Welcome” was officially unveiled at a press conference last week in Mumbai, India. The two-and-a-half-minute clip stars Jaitly, who makes her musical debut in the clip and was last year nominated by the High Commissioner for Human Rights as a UN Equality Champion in recognition of her support for LGBT rights.

The video release and press conference marked the Free and Equal campaign's launch in India, following its inaugural kick off last year in South Africa.

It tells the story of a young man who brings his boyfriend home to meet his family for the first time. Jaitly sings a new version of the 1979 Bollywood classic, Uthe Sab Ke Kadam, remixed by Neeraj Shreedhar of the Bombay Vikings. The video's dance sequences were choreographed by Longi (Slumdog Millionaire), who worked on the project pro bono, as did the entire cast.