Dharamshala December 6 – If you see a typical Indian film-styled posters with Tibetan alphabets in your communities, don’t take it for a film of three hours’ bollywood revolution around a tree. It is the publicity poster of a Tibetan film made by two youngsters, one a film graduate from America and the other from India, but the product is far from a mixture of hollywood and bollywood.
Pun Anu Thanu, a film shot in the locales of a Tibetan settlement in Uttranchal state, using not so sophisticated technology and latest equipments, is about two brothers at two extremes meeting at one point, their love for the daughters of a same man. The protagonists duo in the film is played by non professionals. The film also casts Pa Tsering, the famous Tibetan comedian.
Produced under the banner of Tibet Motion Pictures and Arts, the film is an attempt by two Tibetan youngsters to bring mainstream cinema into the Tibetan community. The success of the film commercially for Tashi Wangchuk is of little importance. “We did not make this film for money, if the audience go back to their homes with a smile our purpose is served,” reckons Wangchuk as he sets up the projector for a show that has been arranged for the artistes of the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts where he developed the love for the art.
The film was premiered yesterday to an exclusive audience at the premises of the exile Tibetan government. “So far, we got good feedbacks from the viewers. I hope everybody likes it, because we have left no option for them”, says Tsuiltrim Dorjee.
“It has been a wonderful experience working in this film with two amateur filmmakers who did not seem amateur at all in their works. I got to learn so much from them on the sets. I have two commitments in life, one is my love for country and the other, my love for acting. I will never compromise on these two”, says Sonam Wangdue, a holder of diploma in acting from Delhi university, and who worked in Gulshan Grover starer ‘we are no monks’ and ‘dreaming Lhasa’.
The filmmakers said that they are strongly against piracy. “We believe that the best reward we could get from the public is anti-piracy and by going against piracy they respect the people who have worked tirelessly for the film.”
