Intriguing yet imperfect: Looking back at ‘Seto Bagh’

The 2015 film boasts of remarkable visual aesthetics, but struggles to strike a balance between historical accuracy and engaging storytelling.

Directed by Nir Shah, ‘Seto Bagh’ endeavours to bring the historical era of Nepal’s Rana regime to life, but it lands somewhere in the middle, neither impressing nor entirely disappointing. The film boasts remarkable visual aesthetics and good performances, but it struggles to strike a perfect balance between historical accuracy and engaging storytelling. Based on the renowned novel of the same name written by Diamond Shumsher Rana, the movie takes us back to the turbulent times of the Rana regime in Nepal during the 19th century.