“I have only tried to portray a common man’s expectations from the state and the rejection they receive,” Saput wrote on Facebook. Why threaten the creator of the song?”Īmid the intense debate over the song, Saput, the singer, on Monday issued a statement. There is a need to take the revolution forward in a new way. It has depicted the pain of the incomplete revolution. “The song does not oppose the people’s war. There is nothing to feel offended about,” reads Bhattarai’s tweet. “Being a former leader of the people’s war, I reserve the right to comment on Saput’s song. “This is not only condemnable but also liable to legal action.”īaburam Bhattarai, who is considered a key architect of the Maoist insurgency, however, took to Twitter to urge all not to threaten the singer. “The singer has not only committed violence against those women who participated in the war but also all the women,” she posted. Satya Pahadi, a Central Committee member of the Maoist Centre, said on a Facebook Post that the singer has disrespected the bravery, courage and sacrifice of Maoist fighters. “I would like to request Saput to take the video down.” “The music video that depicts women combatants who fought for the country’s political transformation as characterless is unacceptable,” Suman Devkota, coordinator of the Young Communist League Nepal, youth wing of the CPN (Maoist Centre), wrote on Facebook. Maoist members have taken umbrage at it, saying the singer has crossed the boundary of creativity and insulted former women fighters by depicting them as sex workers. One dramatic element that Saput has inserted in the story is: the husband one day, at the persuasion of his friend, goes to a sex worker, only to find she is also a former Maoist fighter. The daughter then leaves him perplexed when she asks: “What does a country mean?” The minister, however, not only ignores his pleas but even refuses to recognise him. He reaches out to his former comrade, who is now a minister. About three months later, the husband learns she has been trapped in the foreign land and is pleading for help. The wife ultimately goes abroad, leaving the daughter with her husband. “Ganatantra ,” the husband responds, keeping his calm. “Did we not take the bullets in the name of the country and the people?” the wife asks. The husband limps the wife has a big scar of a wound on her right ribs. They discuss what they achieved by participating in the bloody war-both had received bullets while fighting. The wife, frustrated at the husband’s meagre income, decides to go for foreign employment. The husband owns a small meat shop that barely earns enough to sustain the family. The 16-minute video has a straightforward story.Ī couple, both former Maoist fighters, lives in Kathmandu with their small daughter. They don’t even have the ideological foundation now.” “But over the years, they have lost direction. Inclusivity is one key issue that they raised fiercely,” said Baral.
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“The Maoists deserve credit for setting the agenda of republicanism. Observers say the Maoist war’s contribution in bringing socio political transformation in Nepali society cannot be ignored, but the way the leadership was co-opted after the peace deal and became part of the same parliamentary system that they once fought against is something they should introspect. There is one section that has always loathed the Maoist war and now is riding on the song to deride the Maoists and their armed struggle. “Hence there is dissatisfaction among many former fighters.” “They talked about many things that were not achievable to make people join the war,” said Baral. Lokraj Baral, a former professor of political science at the Tribhuvan University, says the problem with the Maoist Centre leadership is that they could not fulfil what they had promised during the time of the armed insurgency. Observers say while Saput’s song depicts the real picture of society, there are some key elements that are completely lost in the social media cacophony. Some Maoist members have even sent warnings to pull down the video from YouTube. While the Maoists have taken exception to the song, calling it misleading and saying that it undermines the well-intended “people’s war”, others say Saput has shown the mirror to the Maoist leadership who flagrantly abandoned the foot soldiers who made the fundamental pillars of the armed insurgency. Prakash Saput’s new music video titled “Pir”-which means sorrow in Nepali-tells the story of the plight of a couple that fought as Maoist fighters but now struggles to eke out a living, even as those who led the war live lavish and comfortable lives.