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
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
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