True Love Story (film)

True Love Story
Directed byGitanjali Rao
Written byGitanjali Rao
Story byGitanjali 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]

  1. ^ a b "After 'Titli', 'True Love Story' at Cannes film fest". Livemint. 22 April 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  2. ^ "Gitanjali Rao' Short 'True Love Story' in Competition at Cannes Critics Week'14". AnimationXpress. 23 April 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  3. ^ Alaka Sahani (16 March 2014). "Moving Pictures". The Indian Express. pp. 1–3. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  4. ^ "Bangladeshi documentary on climate change wins Golden Conch at Mumbai International Film Festival". The Times of India. 9 February 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  5. ^ "Cannes falls in love". The Indian Express. 2 May 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  6. ^ "Market goes by numbers, says celebrated animation filmmaker Gitanjali Rao". The Indian Express. 23 November 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2021.