Valley of Flowers (film)

Valley of Flowers La Valle des fleurs Valley of Flowers is a 2006 FrenchGermanIndian Independent Film directed by Indian director Pan Nalin starring Indian actors Milind Soman, Naseeruddin Shah and French actress Mylene Jampanoi in the leading roles. It is a tale of passion, romance and Reincarnation, set in the Himalayas, and spans two centuries of time, from the early 19th Century to modern times and encompasses diverse geographical settings from the old Tarim Basins Silk Road in the Himalayas to the modern day metropolis of Tokyo, interwoven with Himalayan and Buddhist Mythology and the mystic art of Tantra. The film has been inspired from Alexandra DavidNels work Magie damour et magic noire.

Ushna, at first becomes the groups muse and the mode of satiating Jalans desire, but on their first encounter itself, Jalan falls in love with her and the two begin to share an insatiable passion and more than material longing for each other. Ushna knows a great deal more than the bandits about the landscape and strategic points and helps the men in more than one successful heists becoming Jalans consort. She proves to be an excellent horse rider, riding alongside Jalan, claims to have seen the ocean, which is unseen and a subject of myth to the men. She also apparently does not have a navel which Jalan calls The Centre of the Universe. Jalan grows increasingly dependent upon her, their love and passion ascending unscalable heights.Madly in love, they decide to find out what future has in store for them and visit an astrologer, who informs them that they are not destined to be united. Rejecting this denial, they decide to change their fate and thereby leave the realms of material thefts and direct their attention towards stealing taboo elements such as Fortune and Energy from people potentially rich in them by stealing their shadows, in the attempt to improve their own fate. They explore too far into stealing things which they have no right to and which are not theirs and divest a meditating Yogi of his power of Levitation. Jalan and Ushna unite making use of their newly acquired power, to rise in the air during the act which is witnessed by Jalans group member Jampa La Jampa Kalsang Tamang. This is followed by a major fallout between Jalan and the rest of the group who accuse Jalan of breaking the groups rules as they perceive Ushna to be a superhuman and hence a precious asset, which according to the rules of the group should be equally divided. This enrages Jalan who accidentally kills Jampa La in the fracas between the two which results in a final split of Jalan and Ushna with the rest, with Hak Chi Anil Yadav rebuking Jalan as they part ways. ........

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