KATHMANDU, July 20 -- The new film Sano Mann ends with a song 'Kasto maya ho' where Shilpa Maskey, the lead, holds the mic teary-eyed, and sings for a fairly decent CGI rendition of a fancy concert hall. You, the audience, are excited, but not because it's the climax, or a deserving payoff to building tension. You're excited because the film is finally going to end, and you can go home now.
Sano Mann is, by all means, unwatchable, but at two-and-a-half hours long of an overly predictable story, there's not much holding you to your seat. The film has its moments, but it feels like an overstretched rehash of a Bollywood and/or South Korean 'terminal illness romance'. But unlike those Korean romances, it's no tear-jerker.
Sano Mann begins wi...