Beyond the Clouds

SYNOPSIS

Beyond the Clouds is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language drama film written and directed by Majid Majidi, under the production banner Zee Studios. It stars debutante Ishaan Khatter as Amir, a street hustler and drug dealer in the city of Mumbai and Malavika Mohanan (in her Bollywood Debut as Leading Actress and also daughter of Cinematographer K. U. Mohanan) as Tara, the sister of Amir. She works for a dour merchant Akshi (Gautam Ghose). The film story is centred around the bonding between the siblings, a take on human relationships in general. The sibling's bond is tested when Tara lands in jail for a crime Amir committed, which forms the film's crux. The film is a grown-up version of Majidi's previously directed Children of Heaven (1997). The casting for the project began in