Nothing special planned today. I expressed an interest to Ganesh to see a Nepalese movie. He finds one called ‘Dreams’ so around midday we go. There are no subtitles but strangely some of the dialogue is in Ebglush. The actors suddenly sprout a few lines of conversation that I can understand. It’s very much a Bollywood styled movie bit without the dancing. Much of it is shot in Kathmandu and Pokhara but there is a moment in the middle of the film where the lovers go to Mustang region, one of the most beautiful parts of Nepal. It was clearly written into the script to show Nepal at its best and why not! The scenery in Mustang is spectacular, with beautiful landscape and old worldy villages filling the screen.
‘Dreams’ a fairly cheesy production, which is what Bollywood movies are, and it had a tragic ending. They have an intermission in the movies in Nepal so suddenly the film stops mid flight and a sign pops up telling us it’s intermission. Anyway it was fun and to add to the fun, we decide to visit some of the locations from the film. There are a few within easy walking distance, including the street crossing where the female lead gets run over in a dream and where the male lead gets run over in the tragic end.
angusmccoll 