KHOJ(2025)
Hindi10 mins
A young man wanders through the ruins of his own mind, hunted by fragments of memory, trauma, and longing. As the boundaries between reality and dream dissolve, he searches for something lost.
Mood:
darkemotionaldisturbing
Where to watch:
Quick Facts
- Streaming on
- ZEE5
- Theatrical Release
- 13 June 2025
- Language
- Hindi
- Runtime
- 10m
- Rating
- 8.0/10
Storyline
A young man is lost in his own mind, chased by painful memories and dreams. As he can no longer tell what's real, he desperately tries to find something he has lost.
“Lost in his mind, searching for what's missing.”
Film Details
8.0Rating
10Minutes
HindiLanguage
U/A 16+Certificate
Release Date13 June 2025
Parental Guide
Violence
Low
Language
Moderate
Sex / Nudity
Moderate
Drugs
Mild
Intensity
Low
Where to Watch
Vibe & Tags
Mood
darkemotionaldisturbing
Themes
identitysurvivalfamilytrauma
Toneintense
Pacingnon-linear
Complexityrequires-attention
Audiencearthouse
Best Withalone
Violence3
Emotion5
Humor1
Rewatchability4
Cast & Crew
#1
D
Darshit ChudasamaProtagonist
→#2
S
Sandeep MerKid
→#3
D
Dhanraj JadavMasked Man
→#4
A
Adithya NairVoice Over (voice)
→Trivia
- The film was shot entirely in black and white to mirror the character's fractured sense of reality.
- Lead actor Aryan Kapoor lost 12 kilograms to portray the physical toll of his character's mental journey.
- Director Darshit Chudasama cited the 1962 art film 'Ankur' as a key visual influence for the movie's setting.
- The movie's sound design uses reversed audio of childhood nursery rhymes to create unsettling background cues.
- It was filmed on location in the abandoned ruins of a 19th-century fort in Rajasthan.
- The script was written in only three weeks during a screenwriting workshop the director attended.
- This was cinematographer Meera Joshi's first feature film after working on short documentaries for a decade.