Bollywood takers may have barely been exposed to the works of Gitanjali Rao, but the theatre actor managed to sweep them off their feet with her intricate act as mother to a crippled daughter Shiuli (played by Banita Sandhu) in October (2018).

Rao currently has her eye trained on her directorial debut, the feature film Bombay Rose, which has already earned the prestige of being the first Indian animated film to open the Critics Week segment of the Venice International Film Festival on August 29.