Gitanjali Rao

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Gitanjali Rao
Born1972 (age 5152)
Mumbai, India
NationalityIndian
Occupation(s)Film director, animator, actor
Known for Printed Rainbow
True Love Story
October

Gitanjali Rao (born 1972) is an Indian theatre actress, animator and film maker.

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Biography and career

Gitanjali graduated as an applied artist from Sir. J. J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai, in 1994. Two animated short films independently produced and directed by her, Orange and 'Printed Rainbow'. Her debut animation short Printed Rainbow (2006) had won the Kodak Short Film Award, Small Golden Rail and the Young Critics Award at Critics Week section at Cannes in 2006. The film has also won the Golden Conch for Best Animation Film in the 2006 Mumbai International Film Festival. [1] [2]

She has served in the judge's panel at various festivals including the 2011 Cannes Critic's Week short films jury. [3] In 2013, she directed a segment in Shorts , a compilation of five short films, along with Neeraj Ghaywan, Vasan Bala, Anubhuti Kashyap and Shlok Sharma, and produced by Anurag Kashyap. [4]

At the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, her animated short, True Love Story was one of 10 selected short films at Critics' Week. [5] [6]

In 2018, she made her Hindi film debut alongside Varun Dhawan and debutante Banita Sandhu in the coming-of-age drama October directed by Shoojit Sircar. The film, and her performance as Prof. Vidya Iyer, a professor at IIT Delhi and the mother of Sandhu's character, received widespread critical acclaim, and earned her a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Her latest animated feature Bombay Rose (2019) was one of the International Critics Choice screenings at Poff film festival in Tallinn [7] and was also screened at the Venice International Film Critics Week 2019. [8]

Filmography

Accolades

Locarno Film Festival

As jury

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