Numafung
| Numafung | |
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| Directed by | Nabin Subba |
| Produced by | Chhabilal Hangshrong, Saraswati Limbu Hangshrong |
| Screenplay by | Nabin Subba |
| Story by | Kaziman Kandangwa |
| Based on | Karobar Ki Gharbar |
| Music by | Nhyoo Bajracharya |
| Cinematography | Raju Thapa |
| Edited by | Sameera Jain |
Production company |
INA cassettes and Video Production Pvt. Ltd. |
| Distributed by | INA cassettes and Video Production Pvt. Ltd. |
Release date |
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Running time | 110 mins |
| Country | Nepal |
| Language | Limbu |
Numafung [nʊmɑː fʊŋ] is a 2004 Limbu language film that portrays the culture and tradition of the Limbu community.[1][2] It is directed by Nabin Subba. The film was screened at the Thirteenth Finnish Indigenous Film Festival.[3] The lead characters in the movie are Anupama Subba, Niwahangma Limbu, Prem Subba, Alok Nembang and Ramesh Singhak. Numafung means a "beautiful flower" in the Limbu language. The majority of shooting took place at Panchthar, Nepal Sikkim and Assam.
Plot
Numa is a typical village girl who is still unmarried and lives with her parents, grandmother and younger sister.
Ojahang with his relatives and friends comes to Numa's home and chats with Numa's father to marry her. Numa's father is not satisfied with the amount(Sunauli Rupauli) they present and replies saying "Fulfill as I said and take my daughter". Ojahang's uncle agrees to fulfill the demand as said by Numa's father to protect their prestige and sends Ojahang with one guy accompanying him to bring enough money back from home. As they are back with the money, Ojahang uncle presents the money and hand over to Numa's father and both agree in the deal. Numa and Ojahang are happily married.
After a couples of months, Numa is pregnant and the message is send to her parents. Numa's parents send her younger sister Lojina with one lady potter to Ojahang's home to visit her. Numa and Lojina visits Ojahang who is working far away from home. Ojahang hurts himself with a log of wood while working and is being carried and brought back to home. Later on, Lojina sees her brother-in-law slip and fall from a tree in her dream and wakes up in shock. Ojahang is dead by then.
Numa is completely lost and broken after her husband Ojahang's dead as she is still pregnant. After attending funeral of son-in-law, Numa's father tries to return home with his daughter Lojina. But seeing the grief condition of Numa, he efforts to keep his younger daughter Lojina to take care and accompany her elder sister Numa.
Numa with her friends is in visit to local festival where she encounters with one of her desperate lover Rikute. Rikute tries to win Numa's heart and promise to come back to ask her parents for her marriage with him. Numa jokingly gives a challenge to Rikute to show his bravery and courage to pay Sunauli Rupauli and take her.
Meanwhile, Numa's father has already decided and received the offer of Numa's marriage with a rich guy Girihang from another village. Her father insists that the deal is already made and forces her daughter to marry him. She forcefully marries with Girihang and she is also able to show her unwillingness by showing inappropriate behavior towards her second husband.
Numa experiences a harsh life after her second marriage. She is treated inappropriately and beaten by Girihang. Girihang seems to be a heavy drunker, gambler and a bully. Unable to withstand the behavior and rudeness of her second husband Girihang, Numa secretly flees away with Rituke while she is back in her parents home.
Numa's parents are now bound to pay back the sum of money which they took as part of her marriage deal. They sell all of their lands and house and leaves their village to settle somewhere else.
Cast
- Alok Nembang as Ojahang
- Anupama Subba as Numa
- Niwahangma Limbu as Lojina
- Prem Subba as Girihang
- Rammaya Tumrock as Fungloti
- Ramesh Singhak as Rikute
Accolades
Numafung has won two International award. In 2003, Numafung was awarded as Best Runner-Up Movie Award in International Film Festival held in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The film was selected among 123 entries from 36 countries.[4]
Numafung also bagged Audience Choice Award in Bijul International Film Festival held in France.[5][6]