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We're No Monks
We're No Monks is a 2004 Tibetan drama film, directed and written by Pema Dhondup (his first feature film as a director). The film is produced by Pema Dhondup, Rupin Dang, and Yangchen Dolkar under the banner of Clear Mirror Pictures, and Wilderness Films India Limited. The film stars Tsering Dorjee, Gulshan Grover, and Sonam Phuntsok in the lead roles. Plot Four friends in Dharamsala go on a religious mission but their true selves are eventually revealed. Cast * Tsering Dorjee Tsering Dorjee Bawa (Tibetan: ཚེ་རིང་རྡོ་རྗེ། born April 23, 1970) is a Tibetan actor, producer, musician and dancer. He acted in several remarkable films including the Oscar nominated film ‘Himalaya' in 1999 and ... as Pasanag * Gulshan Grover as Shamsher Singh * Sonam Phuntsok as Tsering References External links * * {{Films directed by Pema Dhondup 2004 films Tibetan-language films Films directed by Pema Dhondup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pema Dhondup
Pema Dhondup Gakyil, who is professionally credited as Pema Dhondup, is a Tibetan film director and actor. He directed and produced '' We're No Monks'' (2004) and ''The Man from Kathmandu'' (2019), and he provided voiceovers for Tenzin in the ''Uncharted'' series of video games. He has resided in Los Angeles, California, since 2004. Biography Dhondup was born in Tibet. Following the Chinese annexation of Tibet, his family fled to Jomsom, Nepal, before settling in Himachal Pradesh, India. Dhondup earned a degree in marketing from Kurukshetra University in 1990 and began working for the music division of CBS-Sony India. Over the next six years, he produced documentaries, commercial advertising, institutional films, and television series. He became interested in filmmaking after viewing ''Schindler's List'' in 1996. From 1999 to 2002 he studied at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California on a Fulbright scholarship. Dhondup stated that he sought to use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsering Dorjee
Tsering Dorjee Bawa (Tibetan: ཚེ་རིང་རྡོ་རྗེ། born April 23, 1970) is a Tibetan actor, producer, musician and dancer. He acted in several remarkable films including the Oscar nominated film ‘Himalaya' in 1999 and has created the original soundtrack with Michael Becker for 2009 Emmy Award-winning documentary ‘The Woman of Tibet - A Quiet Revolution’. He was nominated twice for outstanding featured performance in play, male for his off-Broadway show, 'The Oldest Boy'. He had worked on numerous ensemble art works with many renown world artists. He currently resides in Bay Area, California and teaches Tibetan music, conducts art workshops for the university students and professionals and takes acting assignments. Early life Tsering Dorjee was born in Toe Bawa in Ngari, Western Tibet. In 1986, he enrolled in the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts, Dharamshala, India at the age of 16 to pursue his love for art and music. Graduating from the art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulshan Grover
Gulshan Grover (born 21 September 1955) is an Indian actor and producer who has appeared in over 100 films. He is popularly known as the "Bad Man" of Bollywood because of his ability to create an impact with his negative roles in films. Early life Grover holds a post graduate degree from Delhi's Sri Ram College of Commerce and was associated with ‘Little Theatre Group’ for a long time before launching into the Hindi film industry. Awards Selected filmography Music videos See also *List of Indian film actors Lists of Indian actors cover actors from India, who portray characters in the theater, film, radio, or television. The lists are organized by medium, language and type of actor. By medium * List of Indian male film actors * List of Indian film ac ... References ;Additional references Gulshan Grover wins best actor at NY festGulshan Grover wins best actor at NY fest'Desperate Endeavours' has him playing a spiritual leaderGoing for BondCartoon Character Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Standard Tibetan
Lhasa Tibetan (), or Standard Tibetan, is the Tibetan dialect spoken by educated people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. It is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region. In the traditional "three-branched" classification of Tibetic languages, the Lhasa dialect belongs to the Central Tibetan branch (the other two being Khams Tibetan and Amdo Tibetan). In terms of mutual intelligibility, speakers of Khams Tibetan are able to communicate at a basic level with Lhasa Tibetan, while Amdo speakers cannot. Both Lhasa Tibetan and Khams Tibetan evolved to become Tone (linguistics), tonal and do not preserve the word-initial consonant clusters, which makes them very far from Classical Tibetan, especially when compared to the more Linguistic conservatism, conservative Amdo Tibetan. Registers Like many languages, Lhasa Tibetan has a variety of Register (sociolinguistics), language registers: * (Wylie transliteration, Wylie: , literally "wikt:demot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Films
2004 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. ''Shrek 2'' was the year's top-grossing film, and '' Million Dollar Baby'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Evaluation of the year Renowned American film critic and professor Emanuel Levy described 2004 as "a banner year for actors, particularly men." He went on to emphasize, "I can't think of another year in which there were so many good performances, in every genre. It was a year in which we saw the entire spectrum of demographics displayed on the big screen, from vet actors such as Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman, to seniors such as Pacino, De Niro, and Hoffman, to newcomers such as Topher Grace. As always, though, the center of the male acting pyramid is occupied by actors in their forties and fifties, such as Sean Penn, Johnny Depp, Liam Neeson, Kevin Kline, Don Cheadle, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
