HT at Sundance | Sabar Bonda made history as the first Marathi feature film to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year. What does it mean to be a gay man in India? Not the India of urban ...

“Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears),” the semi-autobiographical feature debut of director Rohan Parashuram Kanawade, is a gentle slow-burn that occasionally becomes electric. A rural gay story that ...

Sundance: First-time filmmaker Rohan Parashuram Kanawade’s story about two unmarried Indian men begins with the premise that the protagonist’s mother supports his queerness. A queer Marathi ...

Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) opens with a death. Anand’s (Bhushaan Manoj) father has passed. He and his mother (Jayshri Jagtap) travel from Mumbai, the place of his work, to the ancestral home in ...

Bhushaan Manoj and Suraaj Suman appear in "Sabar Bonda" ("Cactus Pears") by Rohan Parashuram Kanawade, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Credit: Vikas Urs / Courtesy of ...

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Set against the backdrop of a rural Maharashtrian village, Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears), written and directed by Rohan Parashuram Kanawade, is a study of the complexities of grief, sexuality, and ...

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