Cast: Rekha Thapa, Kishor Khatiwoda, Suwash Thapa
Director: Shabir Shrestha

Nepali movie: ‘Tathastu’ is a story about a girl, Basanti who was abused by her own husband every day. The movie portrays domestic violation of Nepal and how some men take advantage of their silence. Directed by Shabir Shrestha, the movie casts superstar Rekha Thapa as Basanti.

Nepal has witnessed most number of rapes in past few years. Rape is considered the biggest possible violation of female body and dignity. In a country like Nepal, where social values are deep rooted, people cannot accept being raped and some even go for suicide after the incident. Rapists mostly come from dysfunctional families and so I believe the root of this problem thus lies in faulty psychology. ‘Tathastu’ presents similar story of a girl who was adopted as a child worker and then sexually abused. But here, she avoids suicide and fights back.

The first half of the film is witty, exciting and engaging, but the movie falls to worse in the second half as more of story uncovers. The script looked unbalanced and second half was even more flat. There are many things in the movie that doesnot make sense. For instance, Basanti was teaching matured women or ‘praud sichya’. But as story uncovers, she seems to be an uneducated girl. Again, on one part of story Basanti was just a helpless girl. But soon after some moment, she is the deadliest fighter. It doesn’t make sense. I was also not satisfied for the justice not made to few things. There was one more highlighted character Mantri jyu, who looked a real villain. He raped a married woman that lead to her suicide. But movie doesn’t make justice to that idiot.

Inspite of all these, Rekha Thapa was looking cool and composed fighter. Rekha Thapa is known for her huge fan base and her movie doesn’t need a good story to hit the box-office. I am also impressed with Suwash Thapa’s performance as Kamal in negative role. This is a better performance from him.

Plot:
Basanti is adopted by a big political person, Kamal. She is sexually violated and later married by Kamal. Even after marriage, she is abused. As the violation continues, Basanti fakes her death and goes to another village. But as Kamal knows she is there, he brings her back and tries to punish her again. But this time, she fights back.

Watch or Not?
Watch at your own risk.

Official Trailer of Tathastu

Starrer: Rekha Thapa, Kishor Khatiwoda, Suwash Thapa
Director: Shabir Shrestha
Producer: Ram Hari Dhital
Story: Jagadishwar Thapa

Summary of movie:

Basanti is adopted by a big political person, Kamal. She is sexually violated and later married by Kamal. Even after marriage, she is abused. As the violation continues, Basanti fakes her death and goes to another village. But as Kamal knows she is there, he brings her back and tries to punish her again. But this time, she fights back.

Movie review of Tathastu >>

Official Trailer:

Cast: Rekha Thapa, Sudarshan Gautam, Abhaya Chand, Puskar Bhatta.
Directed By: Rekha Thapa

If you don’t have your hands, but you consider doing something and taking actions for the welfare of society and community, then you’re definitely not disabled. If some people think you’re disabled, they are the ones that are mentally disabled. There are lots of people around us, who have everything but don’t know how to use it well, then that’s disability. This is a lovely message you can take from this movie.

Rekha Thapa is one of the most talented actresses of Nepal and she has been dominating Nepali film industry for quite a few years now. Himmatwali is yet another movie of Rekha Thapa as lead role and this is also her directional debut. We’ve seen her showing great performances on lots of her previous movies but this time she was not so good. She seems to exaggerate plenty of time. She had a massive opening but fades away as the movie proceeds. While on the other hand, Sudarshan Gautam has taken his part brilliantly. I loved how he smoked with his legs and how he used them to write letters and everything else he did with his legs. That was really impressive and my salute to him for the things he had done.

The movie ‘Himmatwali’ is about a wanted man, Satya Gautam (Sudarshan Gautam) who has lost both his hands while abroad. He then dedicates rest of his life to do something helpful for the country. Rekha on the other hand is a brave girl who can beat off few bad guys alone and with some style J). The movie takes some twists and turns and lots of dramas in the end. To know more, do watch this movie and I would not like to open the entire story here, otherwise Himmatwali might kick my ass.

Watch or Not?

There is very little to take from this movie and I would suggest saving your money. But if you are Rekha’s fan, then please go and watch this movie. I think this movie was only targeted to her fans.