00:00I think when you don't have your representation in front of you, growing up in the kind of films that
00:06I watch, I never saw my representation physically, emotionally, so I think that sort of made me want to tell
00:13stories about our people and our place, so that is why I have made this film in Nepali language.
00:19It's true that, you know, people from Northeast are discriminated in mainland, there are so many heartbreaking instances, you know,
00:26but back home also, especially in Sikkim when people come to construct the road, the daily wage laborers are either
00:32from UP or Bihar and they also face discrimination, you know, of a different degree.
00:38India is so diverse that we should understand that, you know, we belong to the same country and I think
00:43migration is not just problem of India, if you look world over right now, we are facing the same problem,
00:49you know, and I say awareness and education is one solution and another is empathy, where we treat another individual,
00:59another gender as an equal, I think that is what the conversation this film is trying to start.
01:06I have shot this film in my village because I want to represent our stories in platforms where it is
01:14important, you know, and it is a great time to be making films, especially in the Northeast with such powerful
01:19women filmmakers telling these stories.
01:21I just hope we are able to open more opportunities for other filmmakers, you know, I just feel like if
01:26someone from Sikkim where the film industry is at such a nascent stage is able to make a film and
01:32now have a theatrical release in India and in Nepal, if I can, I think anyone can.
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