Uunchai is a 2022 Hindi-language drama from director Sooraj Barjatya that follows a circle of lifelong friends whose plans change after one of their group passes away.
What is Uunchai about?
Four friends who have shared decades of history make a promise to one of their own: to reach Mount Everest together. When that friend dies before the trip can happen, the remaining three leave their comfortable lives in Delhi and set out for Everest Base Camp anyway, treating the climb as a way of keeping their word and honoring what bound them in the first place. The journey tests their bodies and their friendship in equal measure, as decades of habits, disagreements and old affection resurface along the trail, turning a physical challenge into a reckoning with who they have become.
About the cast
Uunchai brings together a large ensemble headed by Amitabh Bachchan, Anupam Kher, Boman Irani and Neena Gupta, with Parineeti Chopra, Sarika, Danny Denzongpa and Nafisa Ali rounding out the group. The film leans on veteran screen presence for its central friendships, pairing performers with decades of combined experience against a story built around a bond that has lasted just as long.
Context & significance
Directed by Sooraj Barjatya, known for family-centered Hindi cinema, Uunchai sits within his broader interest in close relationships and the ties people keep across a lifetime. The drama blends that family-film sensibility with a physical adventure setup, moving its characters out of familiar domestic settings and into unfamiliar, demanding terrain. Genre-wise it sits between drama, comedy and family filmmaking, keeping its emotional register warm even as the trek raises the stakes for everyone involved.
Watching Uunchai on Ktime
Uunchai streams on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can choose a fully Farsi-language version or the original Hindi soundtrack with Farsi subtitles. Watching requires a free K-Time account login, while the film's page itself is open to browse without signing in. The title sits within K-Time's wider Hindi-language catalogue built for Persian-speaking audiences, with a Farsi interface that makes it easy to find and queue alongside other titles from the same lineup.