Private Project

Sunpat (Silence of the Mountains)

Amidst the long-prevailing situation of migration in the mountainous state of Uttarakhand, two kids come to realize how their lives and the lives of those around them are altered.

  • Rahul Rawat
    Director
  • Rahul Rawat
    Writer
  • Anuj Bisht
    Writer
  • Rahul Rawat
    Producer
  • Rohit Rawat
    Producer
  • Ashish Negi
    Key Cast
    "Anuj Rawat"
  • Sujal Gusain
    Key Cast
    "Bhartu"
  • Chanda
    Key Cast
    "Chanda Dhaulakhandi"
  • Babli Rawat
    Key Cast
    "Labour"
  • Jhupli Devi
    Key Cast
    "Old Dadi"
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    33 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    December 11, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    11,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    Hindi
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Rahul Rawat

Rahul Rawat is an Indian film director. He started his career in advertising productions and worked for close to 150 television & digital commercials. He started in the industry as a production assistant and very quickly jumped onto line production of television commercials in a span of 8 months. To learn the in and out of video production, he started assisting different renowned ad-film directors and soon joined Percept Pictures as a writer/director in Mumbai. In 2014, he won an advertising competition for the clothing brand ‘Allen Solly’. From 2015 onwards shifted to film Production and as he believed films can have life-changing impacts on the people and is more meaningful to pursue. Since then, from Producer to Director and Editor, he has worn many hats in the span of 8 years and works on both commercial and non-commercial projects. Sunpat is his first film as a Writer/Director/Producer.

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Director Statement

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.