Indraadip Dasgupta’s upcoming film Grihapravesh dropped one of the songs from its soundtrack — Meghpeon, a hauntingly beautiful ballad sung by Debayan Banerjee, composed by Dasgupta, and penned by Prosen. The title, literally meaning ‘cloud messenger’, draws on the timeless motif of clouds taking on the roles of carriers of love and longing across space and time. Possibly taking inspiration from Kalidas’s lyric poem Meghduta, the song is a meditation on separation, silence, and unspoken emotions between two people who seem to have drifted apart after severe emotional distress.
The music video features actors Subhashree Ganguly and Jeetu Kamal, caught in moments of quiet reflection, emotional distance, and suppressed vulnerability. Their scenes together are filled with pauses, sidelong glances, lingering touches, and a sense of something left unsaid – it seems that the two characters have a certain shared history, or perhaps are in the process of seeing it unfold before their very eyes. In any case, what is evident is the unspoken trauma. Both characters seem weighed down by emotional burdens, which may involve the pangs of love, pasts and histories, a turbulent present, or even mental illness. As per the teaser of the film, Ganguly’s character is the victim of an abandoned marriage, which goes a long way in shaping the narrative of the video. The setting and colour palette are sombre and grey, and match the emotional tone of the melody, which almost always, even through the grave moments, evokes the sense of love suspended in time.
Speaking of melody, the music itself is soft and melancholic, an internal, meditative rhythm that mirrors the quiet emotional turbulence of the characters. The use of restraint here is deliberate — each note lingers, allowing the listener to sit with the weight of what’s unsaid. It’s this quietness that gives the song its emotional power and intensity. Nothing is overstated, and yet everything is felt.
In the context of Grihapravesh, the song hints at, possibly, the emotional structure of the film — one that is built not on dramatic confrontations but on quiet tensions, lingering silences, and the complex inner lives of its characters. It suggests a narrative where much is felt but little is said aloud, where relationships are shaped as much by absence as by presence. Meghpeon offers a gentle glimpse into this emotional landscape, suggesting a story of tenderness, distance, and the quiet ways in which people hold on to each other, sometimes in words, sometimes in silence, and sometimes through a passing cloud.