Saanjh
Saanjh is a 2017 Indian Himachali Language drama film directed and produced by Ajay K Saklanni. The film features Aditi Charak, Vishal Parpagga, and Rupeshwari Sharma in the lead roles, while Asif Basra and Taranjit Kaur play supporting roles. This film received the best feature film award in the Borrego Springs Film Festival 2017 and the Award of Merit in the Accolade Global Film Competition, November 2016. Saanjh marks the debut of producer and director, Ajay K Saklanni, who, through this movie attempts to bring to the fore the lesser known Himachali language and tries to revive the almost forgotten Tankri Script. Saanjh is the first feature film to have been made and released in the Western Himalayan/ Pahari language or Western Pahari. Shot in several picturesque locations in and around the Kullu Valley including Shangarh, Parvati Valley, Great Himalayan National Park and Rohtang Pass, Parashar Lake in Mandi and also in Lahaul and Spiti Valley.
Plot
Set in the beautiful Kullu valley in Himachal Pradesh, Saanjh follows the journey of a 16-year-old girl from Chandigarh named Saanjh, who becomes the victim of cyber crime. Instead of supporting his daughter, her father sends her away to their ancestral home in a remote village to live with her grandmother. Isolated and dejected, Sanju is unable to cope up with the village life where she encounters an imbecile house guest, Jonga, with whom she has a rough start. As time passes, however, she finds solace in his company and with him hatches a plan to raise just enough money to escape from the village and return to her home in the city. Meanwhile, Sanju gradually begins to understand her grandmother's pain of living a secluded life and they bond over being ostracised by the man who failed to be a good son and father at the same time.Cast
- Aditi Charak as Sanju
- Vishal Parpagga as Jonga
- Rupeshwari Sharma as Dadi
- Asif Basra as Shamsher
- Taranjit Kaur as Sanju's Mother