Palekar's Quest is finally quenched
	Mumbai: After Daayara and Annahat, Amol Palekar is ready with his third and last film as part of the trilogy on man-woman relationships and sexuality. "It is difficult to make a regional film. And it’s more difficult to make a non-mainstream regional film," Palekar says of Thaang. Palekar’s Marathi film Thaang explores homosexuality and has been made in English as well and is called Quest. The film revolves around the story of a seemingly happily married urban couple where the wife discovers that her husband is having an affair with a man. The film stars popular faces from the small screen and theatre, like Mrinal Kulkarni, Shishir Sharma, Rishi Deshpande and Sachin Khedekar. In an industry where gay characters are stereotyped and actors shy away from playing homosexual characters, Shishir Sharma who plays the gay lover in the film, says this film is different in all those aspects. "I have played it very straight. There is nothing for me to put a stamp on my body and say I am a homosexual. There is not an iota of any kind of mannerisms that has been shown in the film of a gay," Sharma says. Quest is bound to grab some attention because of the subject it deals with. But people associated with film believe that it will do much more than that. "It will not just make them aware. They will be sensitively aware," Mrinal Kulkarni says. Menawhile, Palekar says he believes the film can change the outlook of people. "I do think and I have this faith and I would be very happy if after seeing the film we change our outlook or attitude about other people's preferences," he says.