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Cactus Pears
Directed by
Rohan Kanawade
Not Rated
2025
1h 54m
Drama
,
Romance
7.4
95%
8.0
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Anand, a 30-something city dweller compelled to spend a 10-day mourning period for his father in the rugged countryside of western India, tenderly bonds with a local farmer struggling to stay unmarried.
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Cast of Cactus Pears
Bhushaan Manoj
Anand
Suraaj Suman
Balya
Jayshri Jagtap
Suman
Dhananjay Jambar
Kailas
Sandhya Pawase
Parigha
Hemant Kadam
Tukaram
Vidhya Joshi
Vimal
Ram Daund
Gajanan
Harish Baraskar
Raja Mama
Rani Kasliwal
Sangu
Vaishali Kendale
Indu
Pratiksha Kote
Seema
Rohan Kanawade
Director / Writer / Producer
Neeraj Churi
Producer
Mohamed Khaki
Producer
Kaushik Ray
Producer
Hareesh Reddypalli
Producer
Naren Chandavarkar
Co-Producer / Sound Designer
Sidharth Meer
Co-Producer
Rajesh Parwatkar
Associate Producer
Cactus Pears Ratings & Reviews
FilmWeek (LAist)
Tim Cogshell
A lovely film, very thoughtful. Nothing really happens, and that's what I think I love about it the most.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Kanawade handles all these competing emotional storylines with assuredness, his delicate direction combining with sensitive performances, colorful costumes and sumptuous cinematography for a very memorable debut.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
It's a touching, poetically restrained romance that avoids the pull of both over-idealizing and melodramatic tragedy.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
This is a gentle beauty of a film from a filmmaker who is on his way to greatness.
In Review Online
Dhruv Goyal
Kanawade's complete lack of overt sentimentality - and dedicated commitment to structuring his film around the shifting tides of silence - makes this, and most every gesture of his film, feel deeply honest and, hence, tremendously moving.
Screen Rant
Gregory Nussen
As Anand navigates the prickly traditionalist, religious culture from which he came, Kanawade softly depicts the nervy, yet exhilarating process of self-actualization with sweet, soft care.
Spectrum Culture
Joseph Neff
An unusually assured debut, this Indian romantic drama thrives on great performances and quiet attention to detail.
Geek Vibes Nation
Dave Giannini
Cactus Pears, much like its namesake, is worth the time and effort. Slowly working its way into our hearts, this story, which at first seems distant, slow, and not of our particular place, becomes simply human and connected.
New York Times
Natalia Winkelman
While the film centers on the comfort Anand finds with Balya and vice versa, it is also an elegantly reserved study of Anand's grief, finding a rhythm in its scenes of ritual that allows us to ache alongside.
The Queer Gaze (Podcast)
Joe Lipsett
Gorgeous, intimate, and prone to meaningful silences, Cactus Pears is unlike most queer films. A bold and confident first feature worthy of celebration.
Purple Hour
Olivia Popp
Part of the film's charm is the subtlety embedded in the story, where dominant performances of masculinity are nowhere to be seen and we are to draw more from the implicit connection as shown between Anand and Balya.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
An understated and gentle moving romantic drama. The film moves at a very slow pace with very little narrative momentum and tension.
Slant Magazine
Charles Lyons-Burt
The film is at its best when it fashions itself as a kind of ouroboros where the future and the past, death and new love, circle back on one another.
The Hollywood Reporter India
Rahul Desai
A magnificent film about longing and belonging
Digital Mafia Talkies
Srijoni Rudra
Sabar Bonda is one of those films that linger long after you've watched it.
The Hollywood Reporter
Lovia Gyarkye
In less assured hands, Cactus Pears might have edged into trite territory, yielding to the familiar beats of trauma-laden queer love stories, but Kanawade's considered direction and spare storytelling keep the narrative refreshing.
Variety
Siddhant Adlakha
The logistics of grief create an emotional haze around Anand, which [Bhushaan Manoj] fashions into an invisible weighted blanket in his performance.
RogerEbert.com
Robert Daniels
A touching queer romance whose subtle rhythms pull us into its tender embrace.
Autostraddle
Drew Gregory
There have been many films about queer people returning to their family homes, but few with this amount of tender specificity.
IndieWire
Ritesh Mehta
The film's honesty, whether loquacious or laconic, sears even more in the absence of a score. Its observational ethos is remarkable given that it is quasi-autobiographical.
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