Roopa Rao (born May 18) is an independent Indian film-maker from
Bangalore. She is the writer and director of India's first same-sex
love story web series, The Other Love Story (2016). Rao is also known
for directing critically acclaimed award winning Kannada film
Gantumoote (2019).Rao completed Masters in Commerce with Personnel
Management as a specialization and discontinued Masters in Finance.
For a span of six Years, she worked at Infosys. Later, with a
persistent desire to make movies, she quit her job to pursue film
making. She completed a course in film direction and production from
Asian Academy of Film and Television, Delhi. After this, she moved to
London, UK to assist a documentary filmmaker.She returned to India,
where she made documentaries and short films in order to improvise her
craft. After co-directing Vishnuvardhana, a Kannada feature film and
Kurai Ondrum Illai, an independent Tamil feature film, she began to
work on her first big scale venture, The Other Love Story.
Bangalore. She is the writer and director of India's first same-sex
love story web series, The Other Love Story (2016). Rao is also known
for directing critically acclaimed award winning Kannada film
Gantumoote (2019).Rao completed Masters in Commerce with Personnel
Management as a specialization and discontinued Masters in Finance.
For a span of six Years, she worked at Infosys. Later, with a
persistent desire to make movies, she quit her job to pursue film
making. She completed a course in film direction and production from
Asian Academy of Film and Television, Delhi. After this, she moved to
London, UK to assist a documentary filmmaker.She returned to India,
where she made documentaries and short films in order to improvise her
craft. After co-directing Vishnuvardhana, a Kannada feature film and
Kurai Ondrum Illai, an independent Tamil feature film, she began to
work on her first big scale venture, The Other Love Story.
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