"Sabar Bonda" doesn't preach the ideal of a full, happy love life, and perhaps doesn't even care for Western AKA colonialist ...

“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 ...

“Sabar Bonda” doesn’t preach the ideal of a full, happy love life, and perhaps doesn’t even care for Western AKA colonialist ideas about self-actualization.

Rohan Parashuram Kanawade’s debut Marathi feature film, Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears), can be described simply and succinctly as a queer love story. But it packs in many intricate and overlapping ...

Sabar Bonda often reminded me of the brute romance in God's Own Country, the 2017 film starring Josh O'Connor. In both films, love blooms in the midst of harsh, unsparing surroundings.

Sabar Bonda focuses on queer characters who come from the lower class, where the idea of ‘coming out’ might not be an option. How important a choice was this for you to show that these people ...

Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) is the only South Asian feature film in competition at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and the first-ever Marathi-language feature at Sundance.

Sabar Bonda appears to have come from a deeply personal space. The film has been inspired by my experiences of grieving for my father in my ancestral village in 2016.

Rohan Parashuram Kanawade’s Sabar Bonda, a gentle Marathi romantic film won big at the world’s top (Sundance) festival. Here’s why we should be celebrating more ...

“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 ...

“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 ...