''Maitighar'' ( Maternal home) is a 1966 Nepali film directed by B.S. Thapa. It was the third Nepali film produced and the first featured film under a private banner. This film features
bollywood
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ...
actress
Mala Sinha in the lead role with Nepali actor Chidambar Prasad Lohani. It is considered as a classic in Nepali cinema.
Plot
A girl who was born in
Pokhara was sent to jail for 15 years but she didn't want to go out of the jail then police officer calls a psychiatrist(doctor)then she tells her story to him.
She tells the story of falling in love with and marrying Mohan and living a simple life with him. But they get separated from each other when Mohan goes to the jungle for the hunt to kill animals but he comes home dead.
After the death of Mohan, his mother calls Maya a witch who killed her son (common superstition at that time in Nepal) and everyone calls her witch and they say "Wish she died before birth".
Then she gets blamed for everything that happens in the village and Mohan's mother takes her son away. After that she decides to leave the village than living in a house like a hell. While she was leaving her house people find her then start to chase her down.
Then she finds a woman at a random place who sells her as a dancer and locks her down in her house. She tries to escape that place and when all goes in vain, she tries to kill herself in that room but fails.
After while she accepts her job but she wishes to see her son "Ratu" but they say you can't see him than she starts to beg to she her son after that they let her see her son
After that, she joins a college for speaking she tells everyone about the old Nepal from her religious Hindu book. She gives advice to everyone about living life.
After she returns from college in kathmandu, her master "Sahuji" blackmails to bring her daughter(Rekha) into prostitution.she kills Sahuji by poisoning his food and gets sentenced to prison for 15 years. Then she meets her son at the prison as a police officer.
Than her son and her meet her daughter as last wish of her before going to the prison. After telling the story she kills herself at the prison. After they resized the police officer and her mitini were her children. The films end with her death with a song.
Cast
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Mala Sinha as Maya - the key cast/role in this movie. She is married to Mohan and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
*Chidambar Prasad Lohani as Mohan/Moha as a son Ravi
*Yadav Kharel
*Tika Bhushan Dahal
*Yam Bahadur Khadka
*Sunita Regmi
*Yadu Kumari
*Pratibha Sam
*Jana Darshan Sam
*Gopi Krishna
*K.B. Lamichhane
*Keshab Rana
*B.S. Thapa
*Nanda Kishore Timilsina
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Sunil Dutt in a special appearance
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Rajendra Nath
Rajendra Nath Malhotra (8 June 1931 − 13 February 2008) was an Indian actor and comedian in Hindi and Punjabi films.
Early life and family
Rajendra Nath was born on 8 June 1931 in Tikamgarh, which is now in Madhya Pradesh. His family was ...
in a special appearance
Soundtrack
The music was scored by
Jaidev
Jaidev (3 August 1918 – 6 January 1987; born Jaidev Verma) was a music composer in Hindi films, most known for his work in films: '' Hum Dono'' (1961), '' Reshma Aur Shera'' (1971), ''Prem Parbat'' (1973), ''Gharaonda'' (1977) and '' Gaman ...
, a veteran music maestro.
Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar () (born as Hema Mangeshkar; 28 September 1929 – 06 February 2022) was an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer. She is widely considered to have been the greatest and most influential singers in India. Her con ...
,
Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle (; Mangeshkar; born 8 September 1933) is an Indian playback singer, entrepreneur
and occasional actress and television personality who predominantly works in Indian Cinema. Known for her versatility, she has been described in th ...
,
Usha Mangeshkar
Usha Mangeshkar (born 15 December 1935) is an Indian singer who has recorded many Marathi, Manipuri, Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Nepali, Bhojpuri, Gujarati and Assamese songs.
Personal life
Usha Mangeshkar is an Indian singer. She is the fou ...
,
Manna Dey
Prabodh Chandra Dey (May 1, 1919 − October 24, 2013), known by his stage name Manna Dey, was an internationally acclaimed and celebrated Indian playback singer, music director, and a musician. As a classical vocalist, he belonged to the Bhe ...
and
Geeta Dutt
Geeta Dutt (born Geeta Ghosh Roy Chowdhuri; 23 November 1930 – 20 July 1972) was an Indian playback singer and a famous Hindi and Bengali classical artist, born in Faridpur before the Partition of India. She found particular prominence as a ...
did the playback singing, along with Nepali singers
Prem Dhoj Pradhan
Prem Dhoj Pradhan (6 June 1938 – 6 May 2021) was a Nepalese musician. He was a singer, composer, and regional playback singer. He sang in the two major languages of Nepal: Newari and Nepali. He was also known as the Golden Voice and King of R ...
, C.P. Lohani and
Aruna Lama
Aruna Lama (9 September 19454 February 1998) was an Indian-born Nepali language singer from Darjeeling. She is popularly known as 'Nightingale of the Hills'. She sang hundreds of Nepali songs, including some for Nepali film, and left an indelib ...
. Lata Mangeshkar sang a Nepali song that was penned by the late King
Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev of Nepal.
Production
''Maitighar'' was the first film to be produced under a private banner in
Nepal
Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne,
सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ...
. It had many Indians contributing towards the making of the film - actors, musicians and technicians. The place where the office for film shooting was established in
Kathmandu
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, Nepal has been named Maitighar after the movie.
Reception
Maithighar was a commercially successful movie in Nepal after the success of the movie the place this movie was filmed in got named Maithighar.
Gallery
File:Maitighar screenshot 1.png, Chidambar Prasad Lohani as Mohan (Moha)
File:Maitighar screenshot 2.png, Chidambar Prasad Lohani as Mohan and Mala Sinha as Maya, main protagonist
File:Maitighar screenshot 3.png, Chidambar Prasad Lohani as Mohan, son of the village aristocrat
File:Maitighar screenshot 4.png, Unknown actor in the song ''Kala Kurtai ley''
File:Maitighar screenshot 5.png, Chidambar Prasad Lohani with Mala Sinha
File:Maitighar screenshot 6.png, Chidambar Prasad Lohani with Mala Sinha
File:Maitighar screenshot 7.png, Main antagonist of the movie
File:Maitighar screenshot 8.png, owner of the harem persuading Maya
File:Maitighar screenshot 9.png, a spy of the main antagonist
File:Maitighar screenshot 10.png, Rekha, daughter of main protagonist Maya
File:Maitighar screenshot 11.png, Mala Sinha as Maya
References
External links
Songs of ''Maitighar''
See also
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List of Nepalese films
Despite its short history, the Nepali movie industry has its own place in the cultural heritage of Nepal, it's sometimes unofficially called Kollywood. Most Kollywood films are narrative, and are shot on 16-millimeter film.
The first Nepali-lan ...
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Cinema of Nepal
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Nepalese drama films
Nepali-language films
1966 films
Films shot in Pokhara
Cultural depictions of Nepalese women