Travellers and Magicians

Travellers and Magicians Dzongkha is a 2003 Bhutanese Dzongkha language film written and directed by Khyentse Norbu, a reincarnate lama of Tibetan Buddhism, who is also known as Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche. The movie is the first feature film shot entirely in the Kingdom of Bhutan. The majority of the cast are not professional actors Dendup, a wellknown Bhutanese radio actor and producer, is the exception. This movie is among the first to take a Himalayan Buddhist perspective.

To pass the time, the monk tells the tale of Tashi, a restless farmboy who, like Dondup, dreams of escaping village life. Tashi rides a horse that goes into a forest. He immediately becomes lost in remote mountains and finds his life entwined with that of an elderly hermit woodcutter and his beautiful young wife. Tashis wish of escape granted, he finds himself caught in a web of lust and jealousy, enchanted by the beautiful and yielding wife, but fearing the woodsman and his axe. Tashi finally tries to murder the woodcutter, aided by his wife who is pregnant by Tashi. He runs away, however, while the old man is near death, burdened by his guilt. Deki, the woodcutters wife calls and runs after him, but drowns in a mountain river while giving pursuit.Tashis adventures finally turn out to be hallucinations induced by chhaang, a homebrewed liquor. The monks tale merely parallels Dondups growing attraction to Sonam. During a dilemma similar to Tashis, Dondup manages to hitch a ride to Thimphu. The film ends without showing the final outcome of Dondups journey his visa interview and his trip abroad. The audience is left to wonder whether the trip changed his attitude toward the village and Bhutan, and if he returned to the village. ........

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