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Saanjh (Dusk) 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 best feature film award in Borrego Springs Film Festival 2017 and Award of Merit in 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. The movie treats the audience with some of the most mesmerising shots taken from the remotest corners of Himachal Pradesh. The serenity of village life amidst the Himalayas reaches the peak of sublimity as the visual tour is accompanied by some of the most melodious songs rendered by Mohit Chauhan and Pavithra Chari which strike the heart strings of even those who are unfamiliar with the Pahari dialect. The movie provides a perfect audio-visual setting for a beautiful confluence of the emotional journeys of a daughter, a mother and an orphaned boy as the sun sets on their lives and dusk sets in. Saanjh was the first film in Pahari (Himachali) dialect chain of Western Pahari to be released in cinema halls across India.