Kuch Sapney Apne (Dreams Such as Ours)

Synopsis

Kartik is riding high on his blessings, anticipating the day when India grants same-sex marriage rights. His loving “hunksie” of nearly eight years cautions that rights come with responsibilities. A warning that anticipates the coming trials: an insistent Swede after Kartik’s heart and the implosion of his entire tight-knit family. This music-filled family saga is a sequel to groundbreaking director Sridhar Rangayan’s Evening Shadows (I+N31, 2018), which focused on a severely tested but ultimately indelible mother-son bond. A bond now kept strong through constant video calls between Vasudha (Mona Ambegaonkar) in Srirangapatna and Kartik (Satvik Bhatia), who bounces between Stockholm, where he’s vying for a photography prize, and his Mumbai home with Aman (Arpit Chaudhary). Vasudha doesn’t want her son to lose himself, his culture—to change from Kartik to “Kat,” the diminutive used by a scheming Swede (Teodor Wickenbergh) with whom Kartik experiences a fling, upending his relationship with Aman. Kartik’s cheating, a family member’s transgenderism and another’s Dubai penpal, the demands of a cantankerous patriarch (Shishir Sharma)—new situations call for new strengths. Can Kartik and his family survive modern life and still believe in “impossible dreams”?

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