Cast: Aryan Sigdel, Shilpa Pokhrel, Mithila Sharma, Kiran KC
Direction: Nawal Nepal
Producer: Chhabiraj Ojha

Lajja is a story of a beautiful girl (Shilpa Pokhrel), who has a burden to get money for her mother’s health checkup and fulfill his brother’s dream of studying abroad, a girl becoming a victim of poverty and chooses to become a prostitute. It’s also about a guy(Aryan Sigdel) who falls in love at first sight with her and the circumstances he has to bear when he wants to marry a prostitute.

Prostitution is illegal in Nepal. Besides that, sex workers have to tolerate social abuse, insults and are discarded from the community. They also run the risk of being abused sexually against their will. When things like this happen, it is hard for these sex workers to get protection, because they are seen as criminals. So, an ordinary girl can never imagine of becoming a prostitute. But still, there are huge mass of women dragged to prostitution because of poverty and issues related to it.

The movie, Lajja depicts a life of a prostitute, her feelings and how she has to suffer from society when she wants to start a new social life. It’s a fine movie with average script but a very good screenplay and strong dialogues which makes it above average. I can say we have another good movie after a long time. Performance of Aryan Sigdel was quite fine, but it was all about Shilpa Pokhrel. For a debutant actress, it was a very marvelous performance from her. However there are few loo moments and action was not so impressive.

Watch or not?

Lajja is yet another movie of star Aryan Sigdel, produced by Chhabi Ojha, with the legendary actors Mithila Sharma, and Kiran KC supporting as mom and dad’s role. It’s a social movie and a very watchable one after a long gap. Although the cinematography is not the best, it has a very good screenplay and to some extend you might also like the story as I did. So, it’s worth a watch.

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