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Kagbeni (2008)
Nepalese must watch this movie
Nepali Movie Kagbeni The 2008 Nepali movie is loosely based on the W. W. Jacobs' 1902 horror short story "The Monkey's Paw". Name of the movie is taken from a place Kagbeni, in the Kali Gandaki valley, about 2-hour walk from Muktinath.
Kagbeni may not be a Golden Globe nominee, but producers Bhaskar Dhungana, Nakim Uddin and Rajesh Siddhi have honed their skills with this debut effort, and may do even better with their next venture, Sano Sansar, due for release later this year. Kagbeni could have been shorter, the music during the supernatural scenes could have been less melodramatic, some characters are mechanical and detached. But overall this is a film that proves Nepali cinema has finally come of age. Even in a fairy tale, it protrays a gritty, dusty, real Nepal not a sanitised, escapist one seen in most Kollywood musicals.