Anuparna Roy returns to Venice competition with Lovers In The Blue Night | Entertainment-others News
3 min readJul 24, 2026 05:15 PM IST Writer-director Anuparna Roy’s relationship with the Venice International Film Festival is proving to be more than a one-off success. A year after winning the Best Director award in the Orizzonti section for her debut feature Songs Of Forgotten Trees last year, the filmmaker will return to the festival with her sophomore outing, Lovers In The Blue Night, which has been selected for the same competitive section. Set against the backdrop of Mumbai’s restless nights, Lovers In The Blue Night follows the intertwined lives of four migrants—a closeted husband, his lonely wife who works at a bar, a small-time thief and a pimp—whose paths cross through unexpected love, survival and forbidden desire. Told in Hindi, Sylheti Bengali and Marathi, the film explores longing, migration, identity and the search for belonging in a city that leaves little room for vulnerability. “Overwhelmed” by the Venice selection, Anuparna Roy says: “The film draws from my own life as a migrant, watching working-class lives slowly dissolve into the restless pulse of the …
