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Embassy of India

Alpine Tour Service

Director: Kiran Krishna Shrestha
Nepal (2004)
Audio: Nepalese
Subtitles: Japanese
55 min.

'Bhedako Oon Jasto…in search of a song… ' is a simple and spontaneous visual
documentation of a search process of a folk song.

The search where Narayan Wagle, a well known journalist of Nepal leads Amrit
Gurung and Daniel Karthak singer and musician of the highly popular Nepathya
fame to the source of a folk song.

Narayan had heard a folk song while trekking in the Langtang region of the
Himalayas, some eight years ago. The melody stays in his memory. One day
he sings it to Amrit Gurung of Nepathya.

Amrit requests for Narayan’s assistance to aid him lead towards details on the
song and the melody. Amrit intends to sing this for his new album.

Narayan sets forth a clause of revisiting the mountains in order to get a feel of
the song and the place better. The trip is agreed upon.

Daniel, the guitarist of Nepathya is also taken along to catch the tunes of the
Tungna (the mountain string instrument).

A common friend and the catalyst between Narayan and Nepathya who also
happens to be a filmmaker by hobby decides to join the trip with his camera.

The spontaneous follow of the 10 day trip into the Himalayan Langtang region
later becomes a 55 minute long award winning film, critically acclaimed to be
a film with many merits.

Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

(ENVIRONMENT)
* Meltdown
* Leave Nothing but Footprints
* Turf Wars
* Timber to Tibet
(ADVENTURE)
* Riding Solo To The Top Of The
World
* A Higher Calling
* Into the Thunder Dragon
* Farther than the Eye Can See
* Trio for One
* Fatal Game
(POLITICS / HUMAN RIGHTS)
* Thin ice
* Chulo, Choli ra Banduk - a stove,
a blouse and a gun
* Better to Have Been Killed
* The Forbidden Team
* Jashn-e-azadhi (How We
Celebrate Freedom)
* Siachen: A war for Ice
* Tibetan Refugees: A Struggle
Beyond Generations
(POVERTY & DEVELOPMENT)
* Journey of a Red Fridge
* Hami kunako maanche –
We corner people
* A Bridge over the Himalayas
* Yi khel gi kawa
(The Price of a Letter)
* Tingvong: a Lepcha village in
Sikkim
(CULTURE)
* Angry Monk
* Miss Tibet
* Closer than Tibet
* Bhedako Oon Jasto...in search
of a song...

* A man called nomad
* Call it Karma
* Daughters of Wisdom
* Bhutan - Taking the Middle Path
to Happiness