Banaras: A Mystic Love Story is the name of an Indian Hindi-language musical drama film directed by Pankaj Parashar released in 2006.

It is the journey of a woman seeking answers to the mysteries of the human psyche, love, fear, life and death.

[2] A young woman, Shwetambari is the daughter of wealthy parents, Mahendranath and Gayatri Devi, respectively, studies at a university in the city.

Soham, after one meditative session, is illumined by Babaji, his mentor, and decides there is no harm in falling in love with the girl from the high-caste Brahmin family.

17 years later, Shwetambari, now a philosopher and religious scholar, is torn between returning to her beloved city of Varanasi to see her dying father and avoiding all the unpleasantness associated with her inter-caste liaison of the past.