garima pantha

Cast: Garima Panta, Jeewan Luitel, Riju Shrestha, Evrest Surya Bohara

Director: Everest Surya Bohara

I believe everyone make mistakes, whether it’s a professional soccer player or president of USA. But you are more likely to make mistakes when you’re drunk. The movie “Thuli” is also about a mistake. A mistake that a guy(Jivan Luitel) unknowingly makes. He have sex with a girl named Thuli(Garima Pant) when he was drunk. Thuli is a girl of Badi community who vows to help other helpless girls who are force to do sex labor. Before starting anything about the movie, let me tell you something about Badi community that I know.

Believed to have once migrated from Baishali in India, the community used to earn its living entertaining royal families and courtiers by dancing and singing. With the passage of time, their old profession could not survive and some of them opted for sex trade as a last resort to sustain their livelihood. They are ranked at the bottom of Nepal’s caste system, even within the Dalit intra-caste hierarchy, which has given them the infamous label of ‘untouchables of the untouchables’. Badi women in particular are affected by discriminatory practices and social stigma due to their perceived association with prostitution.

The script was quite okay, but it was not a good movie. The first half was very boring, with very little fun, emotions and action was very poor. For a movie to be better, I think dialogues play very important roles, and dialogues we not better. Most of the time, movie was progressing with only one or two words and that was too boring to watch. So, there are lots of things to learn from this movie and hopefully, the director Surya Bohora makes a better movie for us. However, I appreciate the team for their effort to make people aware about the Badi community.

Star Performances

I had very high hopes from Garima Panta but she failed me. She was so good in the movie “Jhola”, and this time she wasn’t looking good as a fighter. May be she needs more training but I would like to blame the script and the director as it’s always up to him on how you present your actors. There was also nothing goods to take from Jivan Luitel. His dialogues were too flat and boring. He has a lot to improve if he wants to compete with the likes of Sagat Mallaand Dayahang Rai.