True Love Story (film)

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True Love Story
Directed by Gitanjali Rao
Written by Gitanjali Rao
Story by Gitanjali Rao
Music byTapatam - EarthSync/Laya Project
Release date
Running time
19 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageSilent

True Love Story is a 2014 Indian animation short film written and directed by Gitanjali Rao. The silent film is a coming-of-age romance film set in streets of Mumbai, where a flower-seller falls in love with a bar dancer, that too in Bollywood-fantasy style. [1] [2]

In February 2014, the film won the Golden Conch Best Animation Film Award at the 2014 Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF). [3] [4] At the 2014 Cannes Film Festival the film was one of 10 selected short films at Critics' Week. [1] [5] [6]

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