Songs of the Mist(2025)
Hindi22 mins
Songs of the Mist (2025) is a 22-minute Hindi film directed by Ravi Kumar. Starring Alok Panwar, Suman Purty and Srij Bhattacharya.
Director:Ravi Kumar
Mood:
emotionalupliftinginspiring
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Quick Facts
- Theatrical Release
- 7 November 2025
- Director
- Ravi Kumar
- Language
- Hindi
- Runtime
- 22m
Storyline
Suresh is a folk dancer who sometimes performs in women's clothes. He wants to dance in his own village, but his wife objects because a strict politician just won power there. Their young son helps get ready for the show, not knowing his father will be the one on stage.
“A father's secret art tests a family's love.”
Film Details
Rating
22Minutes
HindiLanguage
Release Date7 November 2025
Parental Guide
Violence
Low
Language
Low
Sex / Nudity
Mild
Drugs
Mild
Intensity
Low
Vibe & Tags
Mood
emotionalupliftinginspiring
Themes
identityfamilyacceptanceartistic-expression
Toneserious
Pacingslow-burn
Complexitycomplex
Audiencemultiplex
Best Withwith-partner
Violence1
Emotion4
Humor2
Rewatchability4
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Cast & Crew
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Alok PanwarActor
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Suman PurtyActor
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Srij BhattacharyaActor
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Ravi KumarDirector
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Umang Ratilal SanganiCrew
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Trivia
- The film's title 'Songs of the Mist' is a direct translation of a phrase from a 19th-century folk poem from Uttar Pradesh.
- The director, Ravi Kumar, spent three months living in a village to learn the specific cross-dressing folk dance tradition shown.
- The actor playing Suresh trained for six months with a master dancer to perform the intricate steps while in traditional female attire.
- Many of the village scenes were filmed in the actual hometown of the cinematographer, using local residents as background actors.
- The election victory subplot was inspired by real local elections in 2022 that affected traditional performing arts groups.
- The tent used in the film was a real performance tent borrowed from a traveling folk theater group in Rajasthan.
- The young actor playing Deepak had never seen a film set before and his reactions in the tent scene were mostly unrehearsed.