Kalo Pothi is a different  movie that run around the time of  2001, during the ceasefire. Prakash and Kiran, are two young boys in their teens who are close friends and they study in the same school. Though close friends but they are culturally  divided by their caste system and financial position. The whole story moves around the friendship of  Kiran and Prakash  and about the missing hen left by Prakash’s  sister who join Maoist in view of her social discrimination and poverty. The duo start their journey and they move around with a series of actions and events during the  fragile ceasefire.
A very simple story with a different angle, I must say. Right now the Nepali movie industry is following into the league of capitalizing the trend of indigenous people and focusing more towards cashing their struggle. The movie is also more aligned of getting more edge over the international awards and cultural aspect of emotionally blackmailing the viewers.
Gauging more to the climax, It focuses to a different perspective of a young boy who experiences  the trauma of seeing, feeling and being part of the violence and killing. The movie niches down to an attitude of a common man mentality and cultural difference of Mugu where the great cinematography and story-line rules in. Though the movie is a lame in its beginning but it hits back in its climax with the scenes. In discrete way of understanding the racism and difference of cultural upholding but to a brighter side it also shows the importance of education and how people of lower communities are taking up education as a solution for their upliftment.Â
In view of the violence the movie also takes into account the illegal killing and sad story of innocent people who suffered the consequences of being part of the Maoist struggle. Â
The movie majorly focuses on the perspective that widens the horizon of how and why minority group of people  adapted the trends of struggle and #Violence ‬ during those days. It depicts the gap between the real political scenario of what happened and how it was portrayed.
#Equality survived ages of contemplation in the brink of #Change where it searches new meanings of adaptation and social collaboration
A perspective of the unknown eyes that seamlessly searches for the basic, a boy felt and wanted. It was just some smiles of happiness that perishes in the bloods of innocent people fighting the great ‪#Janayuddha or the political constipation of power and regime.
“Kalo Pothi is the first Nepali feature film to be featured, nominated for and win the International Film Critics’ Week of the prestigious Venice Film Festival. “