Director: Prachanda Man Shrestha
Cast: Keki Adhikari, Karma and Asif Shah
A girl returns home for her engagement to an NRN, but love, as it is wont to do, has someone else set for her.
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Sasha (Keki Adhikari) is your run-of-the-mill rom-com heroine.
She asks the hotel receptionist to switch the Delhi time on the clock over the main desk with Sydney's because India and Nepal have mere 15 minutes difference in their time zones.
Quirky yet oddly sensible theories - Check ✔
She lowers her chin and fondles her hair when she sings because people told her when she was little that it looked comely.
Amusing habits - Check ✔
She counts the number of streams and rivers that fall in the route between Kathmandu and Pokhara because she wants to use it in a cheesy dialog in her short story.
Admitting her oddities and pursuing an artistic passion - Check ✔
Sasha is just returning to Pokhara from Australia when she meets Prahlad aka Pearl (Karma), a photographer as well as a heartbroken anchorage to our heroine. Suddenly we feel like we are in Jab We Met territory. He finds her attitude charming, she finds in him a confidant. Love between them is unspoken but palpable. To concoct a classic love triangle out of it, add to the mix, Sid (Asif Shah) to whom Sasha is to be engaged. He is someone who skirts the gray line and makes you root for Pearl and Sasha.
But amidst the tropes, the storytelling of the movie is nuanced, the crises engaging, the dialogues fresh and the direction controlled. Also it was shot mostly in Pokhara, so plus one for that. Love Sasha is a simple and powerful movie that makes you see love from conflicted perspectives. If you love a simple and quiet movie to while away a weekend, Love Sasha could be it.
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