By the way, I have lived in South Asia for 10 years. Nepal is a country that is deeply influenced by India, but it is not so like India. Both the rich and the poor here can sit on the ground and eat the same bean soup and rice, but the rich pay 300%. Taxed luxury cars, living in a mansion managed by dozens of servants, and the poor give their monthly salary to the landlord and the children's school, but no one complains. My friend told me that most of the Mercedes drivers on the road now are upstarts, maybe this time last year they were wearing ponchos and motorcycles to show people around the house.
In Nepal, the richest and poorest people are Indians, immigrants from Rajasthan (we call Mawadi), who control the economy of the whole country, while the beggars on the streets are all from Biha Erbang lives here (I've never seen a Nepalese beggar on the street).
This film gave me a great shock. It dared to satirize the entire society, human nature, and religion. I am afraid that no filmmaker in China can do this.
The turning point of the story happened when Ashok unintentionally mocked the male protagonist Balram as Half-baked, which greatly stimulated the male protagonist's self-esteem, while Ashok's wife mocked her husband as an optional skim milk, and finally constructed the film to express class contradictions, religious contradictions and cultural contradictions between the East and the West. Balram said that there used to be more than a thousand castes in India, but now there are only two, the upper caste and the lower caste.
The pattern of the film is very big, "America is so yesterday, India and China are so tomorrow. "
The original quotes the famous Urdu poet Mirza Garib - "I wondered if any wilderness would be more desolate than this! And then I remembered another of the kind – the home I'd left behind."—Mirza Ghalib
Written in Kathmandu on April 19, 2021
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