Since there is virtually nothing about this movie on the IMDB site, or indeed anywhere else I looked - in English - on the web, I guess I should start with a plot summary.
This is the story of an older man - maybe 60? - who retires as a teacher and settles down to what he thinks will be a pleasant retirement with his wife somewhere in the Nepali countryside. His one son is already a successful businessman in the capital, Kathmandu. The second one wants to go to Australia - with his secret girlfriend - perhaps to study, but mostly, it would appear, to eat French fries. The youngest, a rock musician, wants to tour the country with his band.
The father is very demanding on his three sons, but the second and third ones don't seem to want to get their adult lives started.
Eventually the mother develops heart disease and has to go to Kathmandu for an operation. The sons finally show up when things become serious. I won't spoil the ending.
I suspect I was the only person in the theater who did not speak Nepali and had to rely on the subtitles. They were pretty bad, and were probably computer generated. Sometimes they made no sense. Rather often they were out of sync with the person speaking on screen. They obviously were not done in the hopes of attracting the American arthouse crowd.
Seeing this movie in Akron, OH, with an otherwise all-Nepali audience was an experience in itself. There were loads of people there, including many families who brought little kids and even babies. I imagine they couldn't find baby sitters. There was nothing in this movie that would have interested a child. As a result, many of the children set with their parents' cellphones watching this or that, often without headphones, to pass the time. There was also a lot of chatter from the adults. I suspect this was as much a social event for the Nepali community here in Akron as it was a movie showing.
There is probably a lot to this movie that I didn't catch because I don't speak Nepali and the subtitles were so bad. Nepali speakers should not rely on my impressions to decide if they want to see the movie. This is just for any other non-Nepali speakers who might be interested in seeing it.
This is the story of an older man - maybe 60? - who retires as a teacher and settles down to what he thinks will be a pleasant retirement with his wife somewhere in the Nepali countryside. His one son is already a successful businessman in the capital, Kathmandu. The second one wants to go to Australia - with his secret girlfriend - perhaps to study, but mostly, it would appear, to eat French fries. The youngest, a rock musician, wants to tour the country with his band.
The father is very demanding on his three sons, but the second and third ones don't seem to want to get their adult lives started.
Eventually the mother develops heart disease and has to go to Kathmandu for an operation. The sons finally show up when things become serious. I won't spoil the ending.
I suspect I was the only person in the theater who did not speak Nepali and had to rely on the subtitles. They were pretty bad, and were probably computer generated. Sometimes they made no sense. Rather often they were out of sync with the person speaking on screen. They obviously were not done in the hopes of attracting the American arthouse crowd.
Seeing this movie in Akron, OH, with an otherwise all-Nepali audience was an experience in itself. There were loads of people there, including many families who brought little kids and even babies. I imagine they couldn't find baby sitters. There was nothing in this movie that would have interested a child. As a result, many of the children set with their parents' cellphones watching this or that, often without headphones, to pass the time. There was also a lot of chatter from the adults. I suspect this was as much a social event for the Nepali community here in Akron as it was a movie showing.
There is probably a lot to this movie that I didn't catch because I don't speak Nepali and the subtitles were so bad. Nepali speakers should not rely on my impressions to decide if they want to see the movie. This is just for any other non-Nepali speakers who might be interested in seeing it.