Melancholy(2025)

Storyline

After his mother dies, a boy is sent to a boarding school. The story follows him and his brother as they learn to live without their parents and rely on each other.

“Two brothers, one loss, a bond that must survive.”

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Trivia

• The film's director, Darsh Srivastava, is a former student of a boarding school himself, which informed the movie's authentic setting.
• The child actors playing the brothers lived together in a dormitory for two weeks before filming to build a real sibling bond.
• Many scenes were shot at a real, historic boarding school in the hill stations of North India that is over a century old.
• The film's score uses a rare, melancholic Indian instrument called the esraj to convey the brothers' loneliness.
• This was the first major Hindi film production to complete principal photography entirely in the state of Uttarakhand.
• A key emotional scene between the brothers was improvised based on a real childhood memory shared by the young actors.
• The movie's working title was 'The Empty House', referencing the home the boys leave behind.