| Silu | |
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| Directed by | Pradeep Rimal |
| Written by | Dev Bahadur Ranjit "Moti" and Prem Baniya |
| Produced by | Prem Baniya and Dan B. Maharjan |
| Starring | Jay Shrestha Nabina Shrestha Madan Krishna Shrestha Hari Bansha Acharya |
| Music by | Ganesh Prasad Shrestha |
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| Country | Nepal |
| Language | Nepal Bhasa |
| Budget | NRs 1,361,000 [1] |
| Box office | N/A |
Silu (Nepali: सिलु) is the first film to be made in the Newar language.[2] The movie depicts the pain of separation of a couple from Kathmandu after the wife gets kidnapped while on a pilgrimage in the Himalaya, and the sufferings her husband goes through to get her back from her captors.[3]
The musical film is based on a ballad in Nepal Bhasa written in the early 19th century which describes a journey to Silu, the sacred lake known as Gosaikunda located in the Himalaya. There is a belief in Newar society that a husband and wife should not make the trip together as it could result in a misfortune.[4][5]
- ^ https://filmsofnepal.com/silu-first-newari-movie-1987/
- ^ "Silu - First Newari Movie". Nepali Movies. 12 November 2009. Archived from the original on 27 March 2012. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
- ^ "'Indigenous films continue to struggle for screentime'". The Kathmandu Post. 5 July 2017. Archived from the original on 13 August 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
- ^ Lienhard, Siegfried (1992). Songs of Nepal : an anthology of Nevar folksongs and hymns. Siegfried Lienhard. New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. p. 80. ISBN 81-208-0963-7. OCLC 33129456.
- ^ Macdonald, Alexander W. (1975). Essays on the Ethnology of Nepal and South Asia. Bibliotheca Himalayica. Ratna Pustak Bhandar. p. 305. OCLC 3888708.