{"id":1483,"date":"2026-06-18T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:34:00","slug":"cactus-pears-this-queer-romance-from-rural-india-is-a-quiet-marvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1483","title":{"rendered":"Cactus Pears: This Queer Romance From Rural India Is a Quiet Marvel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/17251\/cactus-pears-rohan-parashuram-kanawade-film-interview-review?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=cactus-pears-this-queer-romance-from-rural-india-is-a-quiet-marvel\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/786\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/4\/474315.png\" alt=\"Cactus Pears, 2026\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In <strong>Rohan Parashuram Kanawade<\/strong>\u2019s assured debut <strong>Cactus Pears<\/strong>, queerness and tradition \u2013 usually framed as opposing forces \u2013 are given space to exist symbiotically. Subtly dismantling tired tropes about queer identity, the film is a mesmeric portrayal of everyday life in remote rural India, where same-sex desire is portrayed not as an alien intrusion, but as something that\u2019s been alive and pulsating yet fiercely shrouded underneath the surface allhellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/17251\/cactus-pears-rohan-parashuram-kanawade-film-interview-review?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=cactus-pears-this-queer-romance-from-rural-india-is-a-quiet-marvel\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Rohan Parashuram Kanawade\u2019s assured debut Cactus Pears, queerness and tradition \u2013 usually framed as opposing forces \u2013 are given space to exist symbiotically. Subtly dismantling tired tropes about queer identity, the film is a mesmeric portrayal of everyday life&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}