Sunday, October 30, 2005

Manasarovar or Machu Pichu

Anoop Kurian's Manasarovar has won both: money and fame.
The 2.2 million movie was a big success money wise, and at various film festivals it got international recognition too.
Anoop says the backdrop he had in mind for the film was Machu Pichu and not Manasarovar.(Machu Pichu is in Andes mountains in modern Peru. The name of the religious retreat at an elevation of 8000 ft means "manly peak").
But even as the project was progressing a nagging thought remained in some corner of his mind. For his pet project, why should he go after a name that reflect little of his national or cultural perspective? That was how Manasarovar replaced Machu Pichu in the end.

Anoop says he had no idea how to end the film.
Even after the crew landed in Himalayan slops to do the concluding scenes, the director had no idea what those scenes were!
It was then that he saw a Buddhist monk near the location. The monk was very carefully placing a stone on another stone. Anoop enquired the monk what he was doing. The monk explained it was a belief of his people.
If the second stone (or both stones) do not roll down, a wish of the person who had placed the stone would be fulfilled.
That was it.
The mythical and yet charming belief of the monks provided the movie with a poetic ending.

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