Photo: ‘Bombay Rose’/Netflix A Modern Tale of Impossible Love ‘Bombay Rose’ is a love story about two people living on the streets of Bombay (the former name for the city of Mumbai). It centers around a young woman named Kamala (Cyli Khare), who makes flower garlands during the day and secretly performs in dance bars at night in order to support her grandfather and younger sister, Tara. She is regularly flanked by a seedy man named Mike (Makrand Deshpande), who uses money to entice her into a life in Dubai – a proposition that she considers throughout the film. One day, Kamala meets Salim (Amit Deondi), a young Kashmiri man also selling flowers on the streets. Related article: The Masters of Cinema Archives: Hollywood Insider Pays Tribute to ‘Dil Se’, Exclusive Interview with Director Mani Ratnam Related article: Must Watch – ‘Super Deluxe’: An Oscar-Worthy Foreign Film With A Powerful...
- 3/10/2021
- by Lana Nguyen
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
When writer/director Gitanjali Rao set out to make her debut feature, Bombay Rose, she introduced a large team of artists into her own idiosyncratic process for the first time. The challenge, in doing so, was to preserve the singular aesthetic that she’d refined over the course of decades, still hitting on the sense of intimacy that one feels, in viewing a film made by just one person.
A visionary who burst onto the world stage in 2006 with her Cannes-premiering short Printed Rainbow, Rao didn’t have to wait long for Hollywood to come knocking. “It was easy for me to hop onto films, which were made in the conventional style of either 2D or 3D animation,” she says. “But I resisted that.”
What truly interested her was the idea of bringing a feature to life in the style of her award-winning shorts—a vibrant, hand-painted work crafted meticulously,...
A visionary who burst onto the world stage in 2006 with her Cannes-premiering short Printed Rainbow, Rao didn’t have to wait long for Hollywood to come knocking. “It was easy for me to hop onto films, which were made in the conventional style of either 2D or 3D animation,” she says. “But I resisted that.”
What truly interested her was the idea of bringing a feature to life in the style of her award-winning shorts—a vibrant, hand-painted work crafted meticulously,...
- 2/23/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
"Dreams can be pondered over anywhere. So why the sea?" "Dreams have no boundaries there." Netflix has debuted a new official trailer for the animated movie Bombay Rose, which originally premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year and stopped by a bunch of other festivals. We featured the promo trailer last year just before its premiere, and this new trailer is for its launch on Netflix this December. A romance set on the streets of Bombay, we witness Kamala and Salim's quest for true love in this chaotic and beautiful city. Gitanjali Rao is a self-taught animator and filmmaker, and every single frame of this is painted by hand to make it feel more authentic. Featuring the voices of Cyli Khare as Kamala, and Amit Deondi as Salim, plus Anurag Kashyap, Makrand Deshpande, Virendra Saxena, Shishir Sharma, and Amardeep Jha. Rao: "I have always wanted to tell the stories...
- 11/12/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Netflix has acquired rights to Bombay Rose, Gitanjali Rao’s animated film that last year became the first Indian animated pic to open Venice Critics Week. The streaming service will release the film globally (excluding China) in the fourth quarter of this year, with a bow in France to follow in 2021.
Written and directed by Rao, the plot of the visually stunning, hand-painted pic centers on a young club dancer named Kamala (voiced by Cyli Khare) living in the streets of Bombay who, escaping from child marriage, must choose between fending for her family and finding love with a boy named Salim ( Amit Deondi) orphaned by the militancy. A red rose brings together three tales of impossible loves: Love between a Hindu girl and a Muslim boy, love between two women, and love of an entire city for its Bollywood stars. The voice cast also includes Gargi Shitole and Makrand Deshpande.
Written and directed by Rao, the plot of the visually stunning, hand-painted pic centers on a young club dancer named Kamala (voiced by Cyli Khare) living in the streets of Bombay who, escaping from child marriage, must choose between fending for her family and finding love with a boy named Salim ( Amit Deondi) orphaned by the militancy. A red rose brings together three tales of impossible loves: Love between a Hindu girl and a Muslim boy, love between two women, and love of an entire city for its Bollywood stars. The voice cast also includes Gargi Shitole and Makrand Deshpande.
- 7/16/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Romantic drama to debut on streaming service across most of world this autumn.
Netflix has acquired Indian animated feature Bombay Rose and plans to release the romantic drama in most territories worldwide, excluding China, in the third quarter of this year.
A French release will come next year. It has not yet been decided whether the film will also get theatrical exposure.
Bombay Rose was the first Indian animated film to open the Venice Critics’ Week when it opened at the festival last August. The feature also screened at the Toronto, Busan and London festivals and won the Silver Hugo...
Netflix has acquired Indian animated feature Bombay Rose and plans to release the romantic drama in most territories worldwide, excluding China, in the third quarter of this year.
A French release will come next year. It has not yet been decided whether the film will also get theatrical exposure.
Bombay Rose was the first Indian animated film to open the Venice Critics’ Week when it opened at the festival last August. The feature also screened at the Toronto, Busan and London festivals and won the Silver Hugo...
- 7/16/2020
- by 31¦John Hazelton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Gitanjali Rao’s hand-painted feature length animation “Bombay Rose” was the opening film of the Critics Week sidebar of the Venice International Film Festival, and one of the two long-awaited animations shown at the Mostra. Rao’s love story plays on the streets of Mumbai, where the flower girl Kamala (Cyli Khare) meets the flower boy Salim (Amit Deondi), in a milieu marked by poverty, dreams of better life and bitter fight for survival. At times overcrowded with details, this melodrama with fantastic elements shows dangers lurking around many corners of society’s less fortunate communities, but it also manages to catch the spirit of the time with the change of colour palettes and the type of animation techniques.
We spoke to Gitanjali Rao about her animation technique and the importance of adapting the animation style to diverse film characters, the Bollywood macho imagery and its influence on young men,...
We spoke to Gitanjali Rao about her animation technique and the importance of adapting the animation style to diverse film characters, the Bollywood macho imagery and its influence on young men,...
- 9/12/2019
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Whatever color you’re imagining when you hear the title “Bombay Rose,” add a little more ruby to it: It’s no slight to Indian animator Gitanjali Rao’s debut feature to say its opulent palette may be its very richest asset. Rao reportedly spent six years crafting this elaborately braided urban romance, and its every shade of turmeric, pomegranate and caramel looks to have been exactingly and exhaustively selected, as Rao builds and fills her Mumbai streetscapes with a patient painter’s eye. Even by the standards of artisan arthouse animation — a realm as far removed from Disney as mumblecore is from Marvel — it’s quite a vision.
The film’s authentic regional flavor and stylistic dazzle alone will grab the attention of many boutique distributors, while Rao can expect a long list of festival invitations following dates in Venice — where it serves as a characterful Critics’ Week opener — and Toronto.
The film’s authentic regional flavor and stylistic dazzle alone will grab the attention of many boutique distributors, while Rao can expect a long list of festival invitations following dates in Venice — where it serves as a characterful Critics’ Week opener — and Toronto.
- 8/29/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Gitanjali Rao’s handcrafted animation is both social-realist drama and sentimental fairytale, with odd flights of fancy
The mean streets of Mumbai have rarely looked so vibrant, so lavish, so positively otherworldly as they do in Bombay Rose, a meticulous, handcrafted animation which plays in the critics’ selection here at Venice. Gitanjali Rao’s film paints a luminous valentine to the city in all of its squalor and beauty and audaciously frames social-realist drama as a sentimental folk tale. The disparate ingredients do not always gel. But in fits and starts Bombay Rose casts quite a spell.
I’m even tempted to regard the overstuffed plot as something of a necessity, given that the film is essentially about the crisscross of lives in a densely packed community, showing how this surging human traffic is really all connected and how the actions of one party have a domino effect on others.
The mean streets of Mumbai have rarely looked so vibrant, so lavish, so positively otherworldly as they do in Bombay Rose, a meticulous, handcrafted animation which plays in the critics’ selection here at Venice. Gitanjali Rao’s film paints a luminous valentine to the city in all of its squalor and beauty and audaciously frames social-realist drama as a sentimental folk tale. The disparate ingredients do not always gel. But in fits and starts Bombay Rose casts quite a spell.
I’m even tempted to regard the overstuffed plot as something of a necessity, given that the film is essentially about the crisscross of lives in a densely packed community, showing how this surging human traffic is really all connected and how the actions of one party have a domino effect on others.
- 8/29/2019
- by Xan Brooks in Venice
- The Guardian - Film News
"One act of love can change everything." Cinestaan Film Co. has revealed a trailer for Bombay Rose, an animated feature playing in the Critics' Week section of the Venice Film Festival starting later this month. Bombay Rose is a beautiful hand-painted animation created by award winning animator Gitanjali Rao. A romance set on the streets of Bombay, we witness Kamala and Salim's quest for true love in this chaotic and beautiful city. Rao is a self-taught animator and filmmaker, and every single frame of this is painted by hand. Featuring the voices of Cyli Khare as Kamala, and Amit Deondi as Salim, plus Anurag Kashyap, Makrand Deshpande, Virendra Saxena, Shishir Sharma, and Amardeep Jha. "While her depiction of urban reality has a documentary style, the intricate dream worlds are inspired from the rich and varied folk art styles of India." This looks beautiful, not only the animation but the story as well.
- 8/22/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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