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 ...

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 ...

Smithsonian correspondent Ariel Sabar is also the author of My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the ...

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 ...