Unfulfilled dreams

Unfulfilled Dreams



A childhood love at first sight slowly blossoms into a profound spiritual bond.

But fate intervenes. After a bitter conflict between their families, the two children are separated forever.



They never meet again.
They never marry.
Yet, somehow, their souls remain inseparable.



As the decades pass, they live their separate lives, connected only through dreams, a secret universe where distance disappears, time loses its meaning, and the love that reality denied them finds complete fulfillment.



Nothing truly happens in the physical world. Everything unfolds within the dreams, the inner worlds of two aging lovers who continue to love each other across a lifetime of absence.



Within these dreams, their love gradually transforms. What begins as personal longing becomes compassion for humanity. Together, they become social workers, serving others and helping those in need. Their spiritual love becomes so pure that it transcends the desire to possess one another and expands into universal compassion.



Throughout the film, the blood bag, pigeon, peacock, cat, dog, and creative arts appear as recurring symbols, fragments of an invisible thread connecting their inner worlds and sustaining their souls through an entire lifetime without a single reunion after childhood.



Rooted in the essence of Advaita Vedanta, the film explores the non-dual nature of existence, where dreams and reality begin to merge, physical distances disappear, and the boundaries between “you” and “me” dissolve into a deeper experience of oneness.

Their unfulfilled desires do not destroy them.



Dreams give them what life could not.

In the final scene, inspired by an ancient Indian funeral ritual, cooked rice is offered to a crow after death. According to the traditional belief represented in the film, if the crow refuses the offering, the departed soul remains bound by earthly desires. If the crow accepts it, the soul is finally free.



The crow arrives.

It accepts the offering.

Because the love that could never be lived in reality had already been

completely fulfilled in their dreams.



Some souls do not need a lifetime together to become eternal.

Their bodies remained apart.
Their dreams never did.

A love never lived…
yet completely fulfilled.



But Unfulfilled Dreams is ultimately more than a romantic love story.

At its heart, it is an anti-war film, a reflection on the spiritual unity of humanity.

Nations may remain physically separated by borders, cultures and geography. But if human beings recognize their deeper spiritual connection as one humanity, then the divisions that give rise to hatred and war begin to lose their meaning.



The film therefore moves from two separated souls to one universal soul, from personal love to compassion, from separation to oneness, and ultimately from the dream of two lovers to the dream of a peaceful humanity.



When humanity realizes that we are not truly separate,
love can replace hatred,
compassion can replace conflict,
and peace can prevail.



Script writer / Song writer

Editor and Director



Ajit Vahadane

admn@bloodyfast.org

+91-9821656016

Director: Ajit Vahadane

Country: India