Set in a small village in the beautiful mountains of Uttarakhand, India, Sunpat is a reflection of a society that seems to have no past and no future. A twelve-year-old Anuj and his friend Bhartu go on to discover whether the girl Anuj likes pays any heed to him. As they plan out the ways to propose her, it’s through their journey, we see the emotional trauma a large part of the villages in Uttarakhand facing due to the long-prevailing socio-economic migration which has caused desertion in their villages for more than a decade. It’s a story of love and friendship blooming at a time of hopelessness. Characters played by real people, Sunpat threads manifold issues portraying the innocence of friendship, struggles of villages in the mountains, and the undesired uncertainty of life with subtlety.
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