𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐝’𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐋𝐚 𝐁𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐢 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐳𝐢𝐚 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 Synopsis. Thooya, a migrant and aspiring actress, secretly works as a part time sex worker in Mumbai. When she sublets her sugar daddy’s flat to Swetha, a call-centre employee and a migrant, an unexpected connection begins to form. Their lives, seemingly worlds apart, slowly entangle. Amid the city’s chaos, they share silences, stories, and small acts of care. But as buried desires and past wounds emerge, the fragile bond is tested. What unfolds is not drama, but a quiet blooming of selfhood, survival, and strange and platonic kinship between women navigating a world that rarely sees them.
Director’s Statement. I come from a village where girls are married off early, given rations instead of books in government institutes. My friend Jhuma was one married at 13 under a state scheme, then she vanished. Her silence stayed with me. Songs of Forgotten Trees is shaped by such memories about women surviving systems designed to erase them. It follows two migrants whose lives quietly intersect in a city that never pauses. I wanted to portray women without judgement or metaphor. My film is an attempt to reclaim narrative space for the unseen, the complex, and the quietly resilient.
| Director: | Anuparna Roy |
| Production: | River Tale Films (Bibhanshu Rai), Romil Casting (Romil Modi), Flip Films (Ranjan Singh), Nube studio – Nube cirrus (Navin Shetty), Khan & Kumar Media (Sharib Khan, Vikas Kumar) |
| Running Time: | 77’ |
| Language: | Hindi |
| Country: | India |
| Year: | 2025 |
| Main Cast: | Naaz Shaikh, Sumi Baghel, Bhushan Shimpi, Ravi Maan, Pritam Pilania, Lovely Singh |
| Screenplay: | Anuparna Roy |
| Cinematographer: | Debjit Samanta |
| Editor: | Ashish Patel |
| Music: | Nishant Ramteke |
| Sound: | Arka Dey |
