Nepal, Aug. 13 -- Picture a frail man lying on his deathbed, but fate or rather, the strange rules of his village will not let him die. Now, picture a 'Housefull' sign, the kind you see outside a packed cinema, being hammered onto the gates of a graveyard. Absurd? Yes.

But in this village, death itself has become a privilege. Land for burial has grown so scarce that families are locking horns over the precious six feet of earth they hope to claim for themselves when their time comes. As grim and unsettling as this sounds, the movie 'Uppu Kappurambu' takes this morbid premise and spins it into an oddly delightful, satirical tale. The film invites us to laugh and also nudges us to think. It turns a fight over final resting places into a st...