Ian McKellen: India needs to ‘grow up’ over anti-gay law

Ian McKellen has criticised India’s use of a British colonial law to crack down on homosexuality, telling a newspaper in Mumbai that the country needs to “grow up”.

The 76-year-old actor was in India this week to promote the British Film Industry’s Shakespeare on Film series coinciding with the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare.

He also dined with Bollywood stars, and was planning to open the regional LGBT-themed Kashish Film Festival today.