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on 20-Jul-01 02:55 AM
From Prem Basnet's Inter-Cultural Film Society in Kathmandu.
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You are welcome to our next presentation ‘Mukundo’ ‘Mask of desire’ (as Director Tsering Rhitar Shrepa translates it) at the Russian Cultural Center, Kamal Pokhari on 22nd July at 5pm.
It is a movie, sent for an OSCAR contention from Nepal's side this year.
MUKUNDO
“Mask Of Desire”
Mila Production (P) Ltd. And NHK (Japan Broadcasting corporation)
Starting: Gauri Malla, Mithila Sharma, Ratan Subedi, Nirmal Pyakurel, Rama Thapalia
Story by: Kesang Tsetan And Tsering Rhitar Shrepa
Screenplay: Kesang Tsetan
Music: Nhyoo Bajracharya
Cinematography: Ranjan Palit
Editor: Reena Mohan
Executive Producers: Makoto Ueda Keiko Indo
Produced and Directed by: Tsering Rhitar Shrepa
A Synopsis:
Deepak, boyishly handsome, a former football player works as a uniformed guard for a succefull businessman. Saraswati is a homely woman who adores her footballer “hero” husband. With their two daughters, they are ordinary, humble family, contented most respects.
If there is one thing that life-other the gods –hasn’t given them, it is a son stuff not unusual for a family in their society, it is an unresolved thread in their other wife contented lives. Deepak wants a son, Sarswati wants him to be happy –these are lurking desires, waiting as it were to be plucked by fate.
It is not only fate but their inner wants that sweeps these characters together. They begin as friends. Sarswati is drawn to the mata because she temporarily cures her and is fascinated by a spirit medium, the mata by an ordinary woman being‘s warmth, but eventually more so by the boyish innocence of Deepak, which serves as a foil for her misdirected passion, and Deepak by the allure of something greater than he can ever understand.
Tsering Rhitar Shrepa, the director says:
“I am always distribute and confused by all the rituals and beliefs, which are so much part of our society that we tend to take them for granted. The film is an expression and exploration of that confusion, and I feel that the art of shamanism is the perfect metaphor for expressing this in the context of present Nepali society” -
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