First-time filmmaker Rohan Parashuram Kanawade's Marathi film "Sabar Bonda" has bagged the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The prestigious film gala ...

The film stars Bhushaan Manoj as Anand, who is forced to move back to his village after his father's death. During his return, he rekindles his love with his childhood friend Balya, played by Suraaj ...

Said to be a poignant tale of love and loss, Sabar Bonda stars Bhushaan Manoj and Suraaj Suman. Set in a Maharashtrian village, the film follows the story of Anand, a city-bred 30-something man ...

First-time filmmaker Rohan Parashuram Kanawade's Marathi film 'Sabar Bonda' has bagged the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The prestigious film gala ...

HT at Sundance | Sabar Bonda was the first ever Marathi feature film to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. It has now won the top prize. Marathi filmmaker Rohan Parashuram Kanawade's Sabar ...

Filmmaker Rohan Kanawade spoke to us about his cinematic journey. The director is winning praise from all quarters for his film, Sabar Bonda, which recently screened at the Sundance film festival.

This one is a little bit more of a hodgepodge. “Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears)” and “DJ Ahmet,” for instance, are from the World Dramatic section, while “André Is an Idiot” premiered as part of the US ...

The Indian drama “Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears),” about a city dweller mourning his father in the western Indian countryside, won the top prize in the world cinema competition. “It’s for my ...

This image released by the Sundance Institute shows Dylan O'Brien, left, and James Sweeney in a scene from "Twinless," by James Sweeney, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival ...

This is what I wanted to show,” says Kanawade, “At its core, Sabar Bonda is a romance drama.” He laughs at the thought of how, in childhood, he used to think that “when you fall in love ...

“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 ...

Breaking away from the Western notions of queer love stories, Rohan Kanawade finds his gaze in Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears), the only Indian film at the Sundance Film Festival this year.