Silu (1987)

Directed by

Pradeep Rimal

Genre

musical film

Country

Nepal

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A couple from Kathmandu defies a cultural warning by traveling together to a sacred Himalayan lake. The wife is kidnapped during the pilgrimage, and her husband endures hardship to rescue her from her captors. The film is sung-through folk musical based on a 19th century Newar ballad.

melancholicfolk-musicalyearningadventuroussorrowfulallegoricaltraditional

What happens

Silu (Nepali: सिलु) is the first film to be made in the Newar language. The movie depicts the pain of separation of a couple from Kathmandu after the wife gets kidnapped while on a pilgrimage in the Himalaya, and the sufferings her husband goes through to get her back from her captors. The musical film is based on a ballad in Nepal Bhasa written in the early 19th century which describes a journey to Silu, the sacred lake known as Gosaikunda located in the Himalaya. There is a belief in Newar society that a husband and wife should not make the trip together as it could result in a misfortune. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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