Pooja, Sir

Local title
Detektiiv Pooja
Director
Deepak Rauniyar
Country
Nepal, USA, Norway
Year
2024
Festival
28th Black Nights Film Festival
Programme
Screen International Critics' Choice
Genre
crime film, thriller
Subject
violence, individual vs society, human rights

A police officer tries to solve a kidnapping case within Nepal’s disenfranchised Madhesi community.

The investigation into two kidnapped boys becomes increasingly personal for the detective assigned to the case in “Pooja, Sir”, a spare, affecting thriller. Inspired by the protests orchestrated in 2015 in Nepal by disenfranchised ethnic minority community the Madhesi, director Deepak Rauniyar has crafted a film powered by a sense of outrage and sorrow at a nation riven by sexism and bigotry. The story’s inherently emotional underpinnings are made more overt by the casting of Rauniyar’s wife – actress, producer, co-writer and frequent collaborator Asha Magrati – who plays the resolute cop determined to find these missing children, even as she navigates a society disinclined to help her.

Tim Grierson, Screen International

Director
Deepak Rauniyar
Screenwriter
Deepak Rauniyar, David Barker, Asha Magrati
Cast
Asha Magrati, Dayahang Rai, Reecha Sharma, Nikita Chandak, Gaumaya Gurung
Producer
Deepak Rauniyar, Asha Magrati, Ram Babu Gurung, Alan R. Milligan
Cinematographer
Sheldon Chau
Music
Vivek Maddala
World sales
trigon-film
Runtime
Language
Hindi, Nepali, Maithili
Subtitles
English
Other festivals
Venice
Director
Deepak Rauniyar

Screenings

2nd Hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening021204 / Detektiiv Pooja
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
2nd Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening050201 / Detektiiv Pooja
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
6th Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening150603 / Detektiiv Pooja
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
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