Songs of Forgotten Trees(2025)
Migrant and aspiring actress Thooya navigates Mumbai by leveraging beauty and wit, occasionally trading intimacy for opportunity. When she sublets her sugar daddy’s upscale apartment to Swetha, a fellow migrant working a corporate job, the two women from seemingly different worlds begin sharing more than just living space. Amid Mumbai’s relentless pulse, they discover silent empathy, though personal histories and wounds test their delicate connection in a strange and tender unfolding – of selfhood, of survival, of unexpected kinship.
Quick Facts
- Theatrical Release
- 31 August 2025
- Director
- Anuparna Roy
- Language
- Hindi
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Rating
- 4.0/10
Storyline
A young actress in Mumbai rents out part of her apartment to a more corporate woman. Though they come from different backgrounds, the two migrants form a quiet bond while sharing the living space. Their delicate friendship is tested by their personal struggles as they find an unexpected connection in the city.
“Two women. One apartment. A fragile bond in a city of dreams.”
Film Details
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Trivia
- The film's title is inspired by a line from a 1970s Hindi poem about urban loneliness.
- Director Anuparna Roy spent months interviewing migrant women in Mumbai for research.
- The lead actors lived together in a small apartment for two weeks before filming.
- Many scenes were shot in real Mumbai chawls and local trains without permits.
- A key argument scene was filmed in one continuous 11-minute take on the first try.
- The film's soundtrack uses ambient sounds recorded in Mumbai's suburbs at dawn.
- It was partially funded by a grant for stories about women's economic migration.