Meet Benjamin Daimary, India’s first openly gay Assamese actor

Guwahati: From a shy kid to India’s first openly gay actor to win a National Award, Benjamin Daimary had never envisioned the life he is living now. He has also been nominated in the best actor category in the 12th Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2021 for his role in the Assamese film Jonaki Poruwa (Fireflies). Names such as Pankaj Tripathi, Rajkummar Rao, Harish Khanna, Suriya, Jitin Puthanchery, Koumarane Valavane and Neel Deshmukh have also been nominated in the same category.

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Benjamin describes himself as an introverted kid growing up. But travelling to places for work changed his life in the best way possible.

“From the very beginning, I knew I was different. I did not know about gay or LGBTQ, but I knew I was different. Before 2014, I was shy and an introvert. But when I started learning acting, I realised I did not need to be an introvert if I am gay, I can be an extrovert too. I did not need to hide,” he told EastMojo.