Sange Dorjee Thongdok

Synopsis:
Tashi, a man in his early thirties is forced to come back to his village in the remote northeast region of india after eight years when he loses his job in the city. As he stays in the village waiting for news of any new job in the city to go back to, he begins to experience the life and culture of his native place and his people. He gradually begins rediscovering his roots, which he had never paid attention to earlier. He meet and falls in love with a girl, Anila, a school teacher in the village who helps him in the process. The experience in the village begins to slowly change him and he decides to finally stay back in the village and not go back even after he gets the news that he has found himself a new job in the city.Read More »

Quote:
Tashi, a lonely single man stays by himself in a defunct fuel station on the edge of a small town that is slowly being inundated by water from a dam reservoir that is being constructed nearby. He is unwilling to leave the place in spite of the coming danger and the warnings from the authorities as it holds a lot of memories for him. He meets Eshna, who comes to town with her husband, who is overseeing the construction of the dam. Despite the differences in their culture and unable to understand each other’s language, Tashi and Eshna slowly begin to form a close bond finding companionship from their loneliness in each other. As the dam nears completion and the authorities clamp down on the people to leave town. Now, Eshna must decide between the two paths that lay ahead of her and Tashi must decide whether to stay back and fight for his land and his world.Read More »