For director Roshan Sethi, his latest film is deeply personal.

His project, A Nice Indian Boy, is set in the US and follows Naveen, an introverted doctor who brings home his fiance Jay to meet his traditional Indian family.

Sethi, in addition to filmmaking, is a practising physician in palliative care at Dana Farber Cancer Institute who just six years ago came out to his family as gay.

“I really was, until those six years ago, planning to just ride this out and pretend to be…