Prakash Saput’s Pir: The depiction of the war-era suffering also proves the power of art 

Whenever singer and songwriter Prakash Saput releases a new song, it creates hullabaloo all over the Nepali music industry and social media platforms. This time, as well, last Friday, when his new song Pir (which means sorrow in Nepali) hit YouTube, things were the same but at an extreme level.

The 16-minute music video of Pir, directed by Saput himself, depicts the story of Maoist fighters who fought in the insurgency period for 10 years. It shows the suffering of those fighters. Despite devoting such a long time to the war for republicanism, they have enormous hardships to sustain their life properly. The music video shows, even after the 16 years of war, the fighters who were promised to have a quality life lack jobs and healthy social life. They do not have enough money to feed their child properly and enrol them in a good school.