Bombay Rose

Awesome innovative animation painted frame by frame, and a moving Romeo-and-Juliet-like story addressing several important elements such as labor issues (in a broad range of positions in productive chain: street commerce, child labor, increasingly extinct artisan craft, work in illegal dance bars...), religious conflicts, and cruel tradition of forced marriage for girls. The film may be summarized by the director Gitanjali Rao herself: it portrays street dwellers in Bombay, living in a day-to-day struggle for survival, steeped in deprivation, facing homelessness and lacking basic human rights, and Bollywood magic world is a way to escape and forget reality.

Its a simple story telling of some group of people whose life goes through street busyness. Their lifestyle, desire love and romance all are simple.

3.5 A visual treat. The animation is gorgeous and seamless. Each frame is a painted canvas. Very original. Can't rave more about it!

Music is very good. The characters are from real life and each has a backstory. Bombay (now Mumbai) is also a character in itself with its sea, its sub-cultures and its festival celebrations. The stories are not of the city's residents, but have been told from the perspective of the migrants who come to the city in search of work.

The ending is not good though, almost caricature-like and abrupt.

The relationship between the main leads Salim and Kamala remained unexpolred and seems more like infatuation at times.

I wanted to see more of the little girl's and that mute child's friendship . It was more adorable than the other stories.

The Best thing of this film is that it is fully an Indian film in every aspect. It's designed beautifully by Gitanjali Rao. This movie gave me a nostalgic feeling. Because the animation used here is very similar to 'Krish Trish and Baltiboy' that I used to watch everyday in childhood. Every character is written very well. I fall in love with the character of TARA. The movie touched many social elements like poverty, child labour and also Kashmir issue.

One word that can describe this film is - BEAUTIFUL.

Available On Netflix.

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I don't understand why bollywood artist are obsessed with spoiling a story with their ideologies. This could have been a beautiful visual nostalgic take on Mumbai, but script writer spoiled in by bringing in unnecessary primitive Hindi - Muslim angle and vilifying a particular Hindu character to give contrast to the Muslim protagonist. In the end it looked like a child's attempt to look and sound mature.