A woman, a man and a Kathmandu night

Mohan Rai’s ‘Mahanagar’ gracefully pulls off the conversational, dialogue-driven style of filmmaking.

Kathmandu, at night, is an entity of its own. Perhaps except for Thamel and a few other places, the rest of Kathmandu falls into a deep slumber—shops draw their shutters, and the roads turn into sullen, brooding lines of emptiness. Only the privileged are privy to this melancholic yet mystical facade of Kathmandu. To be able to step out into the