''Suntali'' () is a 2014 Nepali black-comedy film, directed by Bhaskar Dhungana. The film is produced by Bhaskar Dhungana, Jaya Shah, and Prachanda Shrestha under the banner of Blue Poppy Films. It stars

Priyanka Karki Priyanka Karki DS Joshi is a Nepalese film actress, model, director, writer and the winner of the Miss Teen Nepal 2005 pageant. Early life Karki was born in 1987 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her parents are Bhupendra Karki and Raksha Malhotra. ...

, Karma Shakya,

Sushma Karki Sushma Karki () is a Nepalese glamour model and film actress, known for her works in Nepali Cinema. She began her acting career with Arun Khatri. Media spotlight Karki became popular because of her brother Rejan bala who supported her for item ...

, Bipin Karki, and Pramod Agrahari. The film follows Suntali's relationship with Sundar.

Plot

A matriarch of a village in Nepal, is arranging her son Sundar's wedding. Suntali, Sundar's old friend, comes to the village, and she rekindle their relationship. The matriarch starts a plan to destroy her.

Cast

as Suntali * Karma Shakya as Sundar *

as Buxom Babe * Bipin Karki as Bidur * Pramod Agrahari as Bajrang *

Madan Krishna Shrestha Madan Krishna Shrestha (; ) is a Nepali actor, comedian, writer, singer, song writer, composer, director and producer. He is one of the most successful and respected comedians in the Nepali entertainment industry and was the most popular stag ...

as narrator

Release and reception

''Suntali'' premiered at the

19th Busan International Film Festival The 19th Busan International Film Festival was held in South Korea from October 2 to October 11, 2014, and was hosted by Ken Watanabe and Moon So-ri. A total of 312 films from 79 countries were screened with total attendance of 226,473. Hong Kong ...

in October 2014 on the Window on Asian Cinema category. Abhimanyu Dixit of ''

The Kathmandu Post ''The Kathmandu Post'' is a major daily newspaper published in Nepal. Founded in February 1993 by Shyam Goenka, it is one of the largest English-language newspapers in the country. The newspaper is published by Kantipur Publications, the publ ...

'' wrote, "Dhungana proved that he was a proficient maker that too in his debut film". Sophia Pande of ''

Nepali Times ''Nepali Times'' (stylized as NEPALI Times) is an English weekly newspaper that provides reporting and commentary on Nepali politics, business, culture, travel and society in 16 pages. The weekly is aimed at the expatriate, diplomatic and busine ...

'' wrote, "''Suntali'' is quite the pleasure for those of us who have cringed in the theaters while watching Nepali films in the past". Niranjan Kunwar of The Record wrote "''Suntali'' is a simple, yet beautiful film. And it's the simplest beauty that can be the most powerful". The staff of Onlinekhabar wrote, "True to its form, ''Suntali'' combined these two to a certain degree of success. But the audience couldn't warm up to this as most failed to recognise the clever juxtaposition of these forms".

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, id=tt3908994 2014 films Nepalese comedy films 2010s Nepali-language films