Damini kt || Nepali Short Movie / For Social Awareness

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Damini kt || Nepali Short Movie / For Social Awareness

Cast : Prem Lama, Sapana Budhathoki 

 Concept : Sudip Lama 

 Camer : Au Raj Nepali 

 Edit : Tulsi Baskota

 Directed by : Nripatendra Dhoj Raja 

This video is about cast system and thinking of people about cast. In This video we can see two lovers and when the boy knows the girl is from low cast he left her .

Nepalese are known by castes The Sudras are the last amongst all and are called the impure, polluted and untouchables. All people following religions besides Hinduism, especially the Muslims also fall under this category.  The communities that fall under this group are mostly laborers. For example, Kamis (Iron-smiths), Sunars (Gold-smiths), Lohars (Iron smiths), Vishwakarma (Drivers), Nepali (ancestry unfounded), Sarki (Cobbler), Damahi (tailor/musician) etc. 

With the advent of democracy in 1950, social discriminations started breaking down especially in the major cities. Caste based discrimination in the public places and government service especially in the cities is almost extinct, but it still exists in the rural villages. However, with the development of tourism as one of the major industry, the people in the rural villages have stopped treating the tourists as untouchables. 

Moreover, according to the new constitution of Nepal, any discrimination based on castes, gender or religion and especially the practice of untouchability has been made punishable. It is one of the cruelest features of the caste system. It is seen by many as one of the strongest racist phenomenon 

Certain racial groups are strictly denied rights or benefits, or receive preferential treatment.

in the world.

The division of society into caste system might have been the result of higher caste unwilling to work on lower jobs and enforcing weaker, poor, war Terai Peopleprisoners and slaves to do this profession. But today due to lack of work to sustain one’s life, people regardless of their caste work in every sector. The high caste people like the Brahmins and Kshatriya are adopting traditional low caste jobs like sale of meat and washing clothes. The biggest laundry and meat shops in the cities belong to them. 

On the other hand, people of lower sections have slowly risen to the higher position with possibility for their advancement or economic independence, with dignity of their own. Their professions have undergone expansion with the changing situation. They have not only confined themselves to their traditional professions but also gradually taken to many other professions. There are lots of them working in high profile government jobs and most of the members in the parliament 

A title of certain legislatures, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modelled after that of the United Kingdom.

are of the low castes. 

So, the caste system is slowly being abandoned because it is difficult to practice in the modern society due to lack of time and development in educational, legal and social awareness. However, it dominated social reality in ancient Nepal and was the social compulsion of that time. It was once a convenient mean to integrate a multicultural society into one complex system. Nepal is surely a common garden for its entire people.

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