Nepal, May 23 -- The title may have one guess the film is about landlord-tenant dynamics but there's little of that here. Instead, it's about how various economic shocks in republic Nepal have left no one untouched, be it the landlords or the tenants.

The subtitle refers to the fictional Raunak Niwas, a two-storey brick-and-cement building at some Babarmahal Marga neighbourhood in Kathmandu, which houses most of the film's major characters. The building is an old one. It has lately started leaking, leading to electric short-circuits and frequent power outages. Not so long ago, a dead rat got stuck in its drainage, forcing its inhabitants to use the neighbours' toilet. Owner Raunak Thapa (played by Aryan Sigdel), a serial entrepreneur app...