I, THE SONG

A viral obscene video starring a woman with her face causes proper lady teacher Nima to be fired from a prestigious primary school. True or not, appearances are everything, anyway no one believes it’s not her, in “a country of 700,000 people, all one big happy family”, as the tour guide sells it to tourists in a chic hotel dining room, adding, “Please enjoy the cultural performance (Dance of Death?) while you enjoy your meal.” The mums at the wedding really make you feel that Bhutan is somehow Siam on steroids. In exile from her class, Nima embarks on an investigative quest to track down her enigmatic lookalike and the source of the clip, as the great title sequence song plays: “I spent all my savings on a mule.”

This is Agatha Christie on a Himalayan trek, on acid, serenaded by great music including the song that has been stolen and even some expensive stuff (‘Blue Moon’); a suspense horror musical in search of the Skydancer within us, held in check or even strangled by the twisted morality of overt religiosity. A grouchy type might say, “Too many shots of lovely slender girl (Tandin Bidha) in a Bhutan sarong and her beautiful shirts”, but then isn’t that a good thing?

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Ticket 160 Baht / Seat

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