Shape of Momo: of home staying and leaving
India, July 7 -- The difference between 'house' and 'home' has been broadcast into our consciousness by postcolonial theorists for nearly half a century now. But there's no direction to be found from theorists about, say, the difference between 'home' and 'homestay'. In northern Bengal, where I've spent most of my life, both words are used as if they were Bangla or Nepali words, like 'delete' and 'Google'. Sixty-five years after A House for Mr Biswas, we have Tribeny Rai's debut film, which could have had the title A Homestay for Bishnu. But it's called Shape of Momo instead. The Nepali title is significantly different, neither translation nor shadow - it's called Chhora Jesto, like a boy; the anger that might have propelled the film is h...
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