
Directing
Gitanjali Rao
Mumbai, Maharashtra
Gitanjali Rao is an Indian theatre actress, animator and film maker. Rao is a Bachelor of Fine Art from Sir J.J.Institute of Applied Art, Bombay. She learnt Animation and film making on the job. Her four independently produced animated shorts, Blue, Orange, Printed Rainbow, Chai and TrueLoveStory have been to over 150 International film festivals and received more than 30 awards.
Acting credits
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RaftaaR
2026
6.4Two corporate giants compete in order to recklessly maximize their respective profits.
Corporate
2006
6.9Dan, a 21-year-old carefree boy is always surrounded by a bunch of friends and fellow hotel interns who feed off each other's everyday moments, their ups and downs. Shiuli is also an intern working in the same hotel, who at times is at a receiving end of Dan's audaciousness. Everything was normal in their life until a sudden turn of events smashes Dan and Shiuli's lives together, into a bond.
October
2018
NRMax and Min are about to break up. They argue endlessly about dividing their possessions, including their cat, Meowzaki, whom they have named after their favorite artist Miyazaki Hayao. Max’s father Ramesh, who lost his wife and has since been suffering from insomnia, meets charming therapist Dhaara. Max’s grandfather Sridhar, secretly enjoys drinking with his new friend Jennifer at the nursing home.
Max, Min and Meowzaki
2026
NRNaina, a criminal psychology professor, is sexually assaulted in a slum she visits to help the daughter of a school custodian embroiled in a case of domestic violence and infanticide.
The Rapist
2021
8.0In the glitz and the glamour of a Bollywood dominated industry that India has today, we narrate the story of a parallel film-making community whose aim is not to create cliched blockbusters, but to tell a meaningful and thought provoking story through the medium of cinema.
The Other Way
2014
NRA cynical young man and a romantic young womanencountered each other on a night bus journey. Eachspins a story around the other. It turns out that she isgoing to meet someone, she has never seen before. Heis apprehensive. She herself is not so sure.
Let's Talk A While
1997
NRTwo women discuss their experience in love, sending one of them on a journey of introspection.
Orange
2002
NRWhen people think of a scientist, they often picture the cliche image of a white man wearing a lab coat and glasses. "Not the Science Type" is a four-art documentary series that will quickly disabuse you of that notion. In the series you will meet four amazing female scientists who are ushering in a new future, as they address critical global and local challenges. These brilliant women have faced sexism, racism and ageism in their professional journeys and in response, they have shattered stereotypes with each new innovation, patent and award.
Not the Science Type
2021
Behind the camera
NRThe film is a sequence of montages that shows four different people making tea in a tea shop. A ten year old boy selling tea in Bombay at the Gateway Of India, An 18 year old girl with her tea shop in a mid level town, A 19 year old Kashmiri lad in a Barrista and An 80 year old man's tea shop in a busy Kerala bus stand.
Chai
2013
6.6Amidst the bustle of a magnetic and multifaceted city, the budding love between two dreamers is tested by duty and religious divides.
Bombay Rose
2019
6.6Amidst the bustle of a magnetic and multifaceted city, the budding love between two dreamers is tested by duty and religious divides.
Bombay Rose
2019
5.8A matchbox collection unites a lonely woman and her cat.
Printed Rainbow
2006
5.8A matchbox collection unites a lonely woman and her cat.
Printed Rainbow
2006
5.8A matchbox collection unites a lonely woman and her cat.
Printed Rainbow
2006
NRA little girl dreams of exploring space with her cat.
Blue
2000
NRA little girl dreams of exploring space with her cat.
Blue
2000
NRTwo women discuss their experience in love, sending one of them on a journey of introspection.
Orange
2002
NRTwo women discuss their experience in love, sending one of them on a journey of introspection.
Orange
2002
5.0Set in the streets of Bombay, TrueLoveStory is a tale of what happens to the love of 17-year-old Salim and Kamala when the Ultimate Bollywood Fantasy is applied in reality.
True Love Story
2014
5.0Set in the streets of Bombay, TrueLoveStory is a tale of what happens to the love of 17-year-old Salim and Kamala when the Ultimate Bollywood Fantasy is applied in reality.
True Love Story
2014
5.0Set in the streets of Bombay, TrueLoveStory is a tale of what happens to the love of 17-year-old Salim and Kamala when the Ultimate Bollywood Fantasy is applied in reality.
True Love Story
2014
NRAn old man must find a way to make his loved one’s time in the hospital less dreary. Unable to hold hands, during the pandemic only memories, music and a cat bring them together. Tomorrow My Love is a ballad about touching the heart without being able to touch.
Tomorrow My Love
2021
NRAn old man must find a way to make his loved one’s time in the hospital less dreary. Unable to hold hands, during the pandemic only memories, music and a cat bring them together. Tomorrow My Love is a ballad about touching the heart without being able to touch.
Tomorrow My Love
2021
NRAn old man must find a way to make his loved one’s time in the hospital less dreary. Unable to hold hands, during the pandemic only memories, music and a cat bring them together. Tomorrow My Love is a ballad about touching the heart without being able to touch.
Tomorrow My Love
2021