Whispers of a Qareen(2025)
Hindi15 mins
Whispers of a Qareen (2025) is a 15-minute Hindi film directed by Maaria Sayed. Starring Maaria Sayed, Rachel Liew and Ojasvi Sharma.
Director:Maaria Sayed
Mood:
emotionaldarksuspenseful
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Quick Facts
- Theatrical Release
- 6 November 2025
- Director
- Maaria Sayed
- Language
- Hindi
- Runtime
- 15m
Storyline
A young boy named Jahaan loses his father and sister in a landslide. Struggling with grief, he drifts between what's real and what's imagined. His journey is a search for a world where the people he loves might still exist.
“A boy searches for the lost in a world between.”
Film Details
Rating
15Minutes
HindiLanguage
Release Date6 November 2025
Parental Guide
Violence
Mild
Language
Low
Sex / Nudity
Mild
Drugs
Mild
Intensity
Mild
Vibe & Tags
Mood
emotionaldarksuspenseful
Themes
familysurvivalidentitylove
Tonepoetic
Pacingslow-burn
Complexityrequires-attention
Audiencearthouse
Best Withalone
Violence2
Emotion5
Humor1
Rewatchability4
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Cast & Crew
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Maaria SayedDirector
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Rachel LiewCrew
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Ojasvi SharmaActor
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Alessandro AlpiniCrew
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Sakshi SharmaActor
→Trivia
- The film's title refers to a 'Qareen', a spiritual double in Islamic tradition, tying into the story's themes of duality and loss.
- Director Maaria Sayed used real sounds from Himalayan landslides to create the film's immersive and unsettling audio landscape.
- The child actor playing Jahaan was cast after an extensive search in remote Himalayan villages for a non-professional performer.
- The production faced delays due to extreme weather, mirroring the natural disaster central to the film's plot.
- The film's color palette shifts from warm earth tones to cool blues to visually separate Jahaan's reality from his fantasies.
- It was shot on location in the same Himalayan region where the director's own family has ancestral roots.
- The script was workshopped with child psychologists to authentically portray a young boy's processing of grief.