Complex sentence: The film is loosely based on Ismat Chugtai's 1941 story "Lihaf" (The Quilt), and is the first Indian film to explicitly show homosexual relations.
Split into simpler sentences: The film is loosely based on Ismat Chugtai's 1941 story "Lihaf" (The Quilt). It is the first Indian film to explicitly show homosexual relations.