Mask of Desire [SEP] director
Mask of Desire
Mask of Desire (; "Mukundo") is a 2000 Nepali film directed by Tsering Rhitar Sherpa. It was Nepal's submission to the 73rd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Plot.
The setting is the increasingly less visible ritual face of Kathmandu. Dipak, boyishly handsome, in his mid 30s, a former football player in the army, works as an uniformed guard for a successful business. Saraswati, younger by two
for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.
"Caravan" was filmed in Dolpali language much similar to the Tibetan, while "Basain", "Mask of Desire" and "Muna Madan" were filmed in Nepali.
Nepal's first Oscar submission, "Caravan" was made by a Nepal-based director from France, and was funded largely by Western sources. "Mask of Desire", with its themes of native Nepalese tradition and mythology was co-produced