DEAD YET ALIVE

Year of Production: 2008 Duration: 55'

Language: MAGAR Country: Nepal

Subtitle: English Genre: Documentary

CREW

Director/ Writer: Sanjog Laaphaa Magar

Production: Jeet Bahadur Sinjalee Magar Literature Academy

Cinemotographer: Yubraj Rai and Mejan Pun Rai

Editor: Rajendra Pandey

Background Music: Panindra Rai

Synopsis: This is a bipic on Jeet Bahadur Singjali Magar, the first poet in Magar Language. Sinjali, the first Magar poet to get an anthrology of poetry published to promote the Magar Language and culture, had disappeared in 1968. Three years back, he was suddenly noticed in Thulo Lhumpek, Gulmi. This documentary explores what he was doing for almost four decades and why he got himself exiled from his family and ethnic organizations.