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Information
- Year
- 2019
- Runtime
- 97 min.
- Director
- Gitanjali Rao
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Animation
- Rating *
- 6.3
- Votes *
- 0
- Checks
- 29
- Favs
- 1
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 3.4% (1:29)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:0
Top comments
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Siskoid
Bollywood writ in animation, Bombay Rose expands on an earlier Gitanjali Rao short (TrueLoveStory), though it may lose focus doing so. At the center of the story is a forbidden love between two young people, Kamala and Salim, but we also follow Kamala's little sister Tara to a former Bollywood star's house, an old woman reliving past glories in her mind. Tara also befriends a small deaf-mute street urchin. There's a rose-cam giving us a flower's POV. And then there's the expansion of the story into the city's history itself, with cool transformations of art style as we go into Kamala or Salim's fantasies, based on traditional Indian art, or the old woman's black and white "Golden Age". And the occasional cheesy Bollywood moment too. It's a melancholy film, burning with a slow but bright and colorful flame, and more a portrait of the bustling city of Bombay as it is today, through various characters who dream of better days - past or future - but have been denied them. There's tragedy there, and in a way, I kind of resent the cheesy button at the end, but without it, Bombay Rose would have been too much of a downer. 3 years 2 months ago