Melancholy(2025)
Hindi13 mins
Melancholy (2025) is a 13-minute Hindi film directed by Darsh Srivastava. Starring Pushkar Pathak, Vaibhav and Ranveer Chauhan. With an audience rating of 4.5/10, Melancholy stands as one of the notable Hindi releases of 2025.
Director:Darsh Srivastava
Mood:
emotionaldark
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Quick Facts
- Theatrical Release
- 8 September 2025
- Director
- Darsh Srivastava
- Language
- Hindi
- Runtime
- 13m
- GudVibe Rating
- 4.5/10
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.”
Film Details
4.5Rating
13Minutes
HindiLanguage
U/A 13+Certificate
Release Date8 September 2025
Parental Guide
Violence
Low
Language
Moderate
Sex / Nudity
Moderate
Drugs
Mild
Intensity
Low
Vibe & Tags
Mood
emotionaldark
Themes
familysurvivalidentity
Toneserious
Pacingslow-burn
Complexitymoderate
Audiencemultiplex
Best Withwith-partner
Violence1
Emotion5
Humor1
Rewatchability3
Reviews & Ratings
Your Rating
4.5/10Rating
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Cast & Crew
#1
P
Pushkar PathakActor
→#2
V
VaibhavActor
→#3
R
Ranveer ChauhanActor
→#4
L
Love DiwediActor
→#5
D
Darsh SrivastavaDirector
→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.