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It may sound distressing to many, even if you hear of people burnt alive in the 20th century in our country. That time, widowed woman had to self immolate on her husband funeral fire to be called a good wife (Sati) for this life: a myth in the medieval time. Now the abolished malpractice of Sati Pratha, is being put in a Nepali movie named "Jhola: Sati Ek Kupratha" which is based on a popular short story "Jhola" written by Krishna Dharabasi. The story based on the early decades of twentieth century, has the emotions of a troubled kid with the death of his father and his mother to be sent along in the name of Sati. As the movie is being made on the shocking short story, with many dreadful sequences of Sati and aftermath, I believe they have gone through tough times for the realistic (?) portrayal. The story shows the Sati practice which is at odds with the desire of a widowed woman to live, and strongly raises women rights issue with people's belief for Sati practice in that time.
The movie is already known to be in the studio for post production and I have not heard of them afterwards, nothing for its first teaser, trailer, poster and even for its release date. But I have found the behind the scene video for the movie which says they have worked hard for the making and are of confidence of being successful. With the popular story and behind the scene video, People have already started to predict it to be Oscar contender from Nepal. But I say its too early to comment on that as the question is how the adaptation of the acclaimed story has culminated in the movie and we have to wait sometime to get the answer. And I even look forward for Jason Kunwar's music for the movie as he had given us excellent music in the movie Chadke with the traditional feel.
Writer Krishna Dharabasi is also known to be acting in the movie along with whole of his family for the plot that he has written. Garima Panta, Deshbhakta Khanal, Laxmi Giri, and Child Artist Sujal Nepal are the main actors of the movie directed by Yadav Kumar Bhattarai.
It may sound distressing to many, even if you hear of people burnt alive in the 20th century in our country. That time, widowed woman had to self immolate on her husband funeral fire to be called a good wife (Sati) for this life: a myth in the medieval time. Now the abolished malpractice of Sati Pratha, is being put in a Nepali movie named "Jhola: Sati Ek Kupratha" which is based on a popular short story "Jhola" written by Krishna Dharabasi. The story based on the early decades of twentieth century, has the emotions of a troubled kid with the death of his father and his mother to be sent along in the name of Sati. As the movie is being made on the shocking short story, with many dreadful sequences of Sati and aftermath, I believe they have gone through tough times for the realistic (?) portrayal. The story shows the Sati practice which is at odds with the desire of a widowed woman to live, and strongly raises women rights issue with people's belief for Sati practice in that time.
The movie is already known to be in the studio for post production and I have not heard of them afterwards, nothing for its first teaser, trailer, poster and even for its release date. But I have found the behind the scene video for the movie which says they have worked hard for the making and are of confidence of being successful. With the popular story and behind the scene video, People have already started to predict it to be Oscar contender from Nepal. But I say its too early to comment on that as the question is how the adaptation of the acclaimed story has culminated in the movie and we have to wait sometime to get the answer. And I even look forward for Jason Kunwar's music for the movie as he had given us excellent music in the movie Chadke with the traditional feel.
Writer Krishna Dharabasi is also known to be acting in the movie along with whole of his family for the plot that he has written. Garima Panta, Deshbhakta Khanal, Laxmi Giri, and Child Artist Sujal Nepal are the main actors of the movie directed by Yadav Kumar Bhattarai.
If you want to listen the short story Jhola (originally published in 2060 B.S short story collection of the same name), here is the audio book in YouTube as presented by Achyut Ghimire in Radio Bachan.
Here are some stills from the movie Jhola.
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