Anuparna Roy makes her feature debut with “Songs of Forgotten Trees”, a quiet, intimate Indian drama that premiered in the Orizzonti section at the Venice International Film Festival.
Set largely within a shared apartment in Mumbai, the film explores female intimacy, social pressure, and emotional disappearance through the evolving relationship between a sex worker and a corporate professional. In this Asian Movie Pulse video review, we discuss the film’s quarantine-like aesthetic, sapphic undertones, social commentary on women’s survival in contemporary India, performances led by Naaz Shaikh, and the visual language shaped by handheld camerawork and natural light.
We also examine where the film succeeds emotionally—and where its limited runtime and underdeveloped threads hold it back.
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