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काठमाडौंमा वायुको गुणस्तर: ८५
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Laughter, fellow cast iron mother

भाद्र १८, २०८१
Laughter, fellow cast iron mother
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Highlights

  • Bipin Karki was ready to shoot the last scene of 'Wooni Sweater' as the 'son who shaved his head on his father's death', this is when the news came that his mother was admitted to ICU, 'Real's' mother died 10 days after he shaved his head on his father's death. Vipin was able to separate the story.

On the 12th day of Ama Mahaprasthan (Monday, Kushe Aunsi) Bipin Karki and his brother Arjun Koteshwar are at Kiriya house in Mahadevasthan and are remembering Ama Zindagi. Father Lok Bahadur Karki (78) sons are in front. Vipin/Arjun's Reminiscences – The series has only the mother. Memories of some taste, some tasteless, that bind them with a long thread of the past.

Pain-thirst, despair-faith, pain-feeling, etc., are some of the things that evoke Vipin/Arjuna. They think that they taught life, made them strong. Puret is narrating the Garuda Purana. Puranas have many stories of birth, world-enjoyment, religion-sin. There are stories of salvation after death, stories of howlers of hot oil, tales of hell and stories.

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Bipin gave a different dimension to Nepali films. He is famous for his powerful character and multitalent in the film. Vipin has lived different characters in the reel. He became famous with 'Loot', 'Bhasme Don' of 'Pashupati Prasad'. 'Bindu' of 'Chadke' or 'Fanindra' of 'Jatra' or Baburam of 'Prasad'! He has no character that should not be remembered. Bipin's brother Arjun is also a film actor. He worked as fight director in more than 200 films. Acted in more than a dozen films such as 'Jangli Mangbo', 'Didibhai', 'Dosti', 'Bazaar'.

Sons Bipin and Arjun Karki with parents.

These actor brothers are envious of days gone by, where their smiling mother was. He thinks - those days were the real friends of life. Bipin and Arjun's life is difficult after mother Saraswati leaves forever. Wrapped in white dhoti, they are in terrible distress. No regular work, no steady mind. Somewhere in the brain-cells, the mother-memory is awakening. As he slips away, Vipin falls asleep in the still hours of the night, where Saraswati begins to narrate old stories. The stories he carefully preserved to tell his friends were safe in his memories. ``Mother was a storyteller, she used to gather the villagers and narrate her experiences for hours,'' Arjun remembers.

Saraswati breathed her last at the age of 72 on August 6 at 6 am in Patan Hospital. She had been dying for a long time due to a chronic illness - water had accumulated in her lungs. Vipin enters the mother-past, where his mother lies unconscious in a hospital bed. Saraswati was ill when Vipin signed 'Bhasme Don'. He used to read scripts and memorize dialogues while his mother was sleeping in the emergency ward of the teaching hospital. At that time Saraswati was suffering from liver problem. Later, lung problems started.

Saraswati wanted to see Vipin's 'Mahajatra' but she was in the hospital, the desire remained unfulfilled. "My mother was happy with my success," says Bipin, "She used to tell me one thing - this success of yours is nothing, you will reach wherever you go." Just keep working.' After a few springs and freezing winters, Saraswati was again admitted to Patan Hospital with lung problems. The last scene of 'Wooni Sweater' was being shot at Panchthar Besikhola. In the reel, Vipin's role was that of a son whose father had shaved his head. The Malamis were in Bagar. The news came during the shooting – the mother is in the ICU.

Seeing Vipin, the mother's eyes lit up, "Hey Kancha, you come?" Those around said, "When the younger one came, the mother's face lit up." Saraswati died 10 days after Bipin shaved her hair for the film. While I was shaving my hair at Aryaghat, I kept remembering the shooting scene. What is the connection between that scene and the ghat? Which real? Which reel? It was hard to distinguish,' says Bipin, 'that scene kept following.' She became speechless when she saw her mother struggling with death. How could the sons stay calm when they saw their mother surrounded by many pipes, silent on the ventilator? Vipin/Arjun used to panic when he saw his mother suffering from liver and lung problems. The mother, who was convulsed with pain, kept saying to Vipin, "Younger one!" You know the doctor too, don't make me kill you, don't make me kill you in one fell swoop! I was very burned inside.' While saying that, Saraswati's tears were flowing down her cheeks.

After the sun had sunk in the western sky, Saraswati kept shouting in the early evening, 'O Kancha, what time is it? How much is left to spend the night? How to cut the long night now?' Then the sons were upset. Vipin used to go to the toilet to hide his tears. Every watch of the night was difficult for mother and son. After a few times of dialysis, Saraswati, who was sleeping on the ventilator, got some relief, some hope.

On the morning of August 6, the nurse said to Bipin, who was in the mech, "Mother is fine now." Bring milk in a big glass, we will feed it through a pipe. She had not eaten anything for three days. Vipin suddenly got excited, his body became like a healer, lines of happiness danced on his face. He ran to the tea shop in Lagankhel and said, 'Sahuji! Sahuji put the milk. Immediately Arjun got a call, 'Where are you? Hurry up...' Vipin's heart felt sad, he ran like the wind and reached the hospital. Two doctors were performing CPR (cardiac compression) on the mother. The doctor said, 'The heart is not working, the level is zero, we can't, sir.' Vipin remembers, 'Maybe the milk was boiling in the tea shop.'

The mother left Vipin forever.

Saraswati once left Vipin at home and went to India with her husband when she was young. He was separated from his mother for the first time. After a month and a half, when Saraswati came back, Vipin did not go to his mother's lap, but stayed around. Vipin felt some kind of hesitation and could not go with his mother immediately. My heart was asking - why did you leave me? Those old days keep coming back to Bipin like a wave in his mind, his mother keeps saying, 'Younger! Come not alone

sit in the lap. Why are you staying far away?'' Bipin, who is shocked by that logic, says, 'Now I can't go to my mother's arms even if I want to.' She used to grow a lot of vegetables even on a small land, she was happy with grass and firewood. When her husband was not at home, she used to wake up at 3 o'clock in the morning, make lunch and work with the farmers all day. "When my father was in the army, my mother worked very hard, like a machine," says Arjun, "but, her face never showed tiredness or despondency." In Arjun's eyes, his mother was tender, angry and loving. He also liked his mother to be angry. "A mother is a friend, a parent, a mother in the world," he says.

Bipin's family migrated from Bhojpur to Morang, Bahuni. Saraswati's Maiti is also Bhojpur. Vipin/Arjun was born in Morang. Saraswati could not read and write. In Arjun's memory Saraswati was a comedienne Jasti. He says, 'In Vipin, the same quality of mother has been transferred. Whatever Vipin does in acting, is his mother's style. Mother's nature of laughing.'

Bipin/Arjun's father was Lok Bahadur Indian Army. Saraswati was very conscious about the education of her sons. She kept the teacher who came from the outer district to teach school in the village at home, thinking that he would 'teach the sons'. The teacher never broke up at home. She was happy when her sons were happy. The sons were happy to go to the village fairs-festivals-deusi-festivals-weddings-dances-fun. The father used to say that 'sons are staying at home', he was worried that 'they will be spoiled when they go to the village'. Saraswati, on the other hand, used to send her sons secretly to fairs and festivals, she was also aware that they should not be beaten by their father.

Once upon a time, a circus came to Jogwani. People from all seven villages came to see it. "We begged my mother to go see the circus, but she sent my father away without knowing it, telling him to come quickly," Bipin remembers Father issued an order - do not let them eat for two days! Saraswati also said in the same way, 'I will not let you eat.' But after her husband fell asleep, she placed the plate of hot rice under the bed of her sons. She said, 'Let's eat and sleep.' Mother had little fear, much love and hope. Saraswati always lived as a friend in the eyes of her sons. Arjun used to steal mangoes with his friends. Then Saraswati would say to the teacher, 'Sir, he has stolen the mango, the boy has to be beaten.' Vipin was weak, Arjun strong and Hattakatta. Saraswati used to say to Arjun, 'The younger one is a bit weak, don't overwork him, don't say anything, don't scold him.' Arjun says, 'Vipin is the most beloved son of his mother.' She was proud of her sons. She used to say, 'My sons have studied.' The father wanted to make his son a Lahure. Saraswati also had it in her mind that her son should become Lahure. Arjun went to Lahore for election, ran away while running, later came to Kathmandu to act in films. His father taught him CMA in Dhankuta so that Vipin would go into the medical field. However, later studied journalism at Ratnarajya Campus Kathmandu.

Mother forgives Vipin for many mistakes. "I have done terrible things in my life. Terrible and terrible mistakes have been made," says Vipin, "Mother has hidden and digested such mistakes. So far, my father has not heard of my mistakes. Villagers would come to his house day and night with the reports that his son had made. Saraswati used to talk to them in the courtyard outside the house, closing the door hastily, thinking 'Shriman will listen'. She used to say to him, "Let's go out and talk, not at home".

Vipin stole money, broke the battery of the villager's TV. However, Saraswati silently paid her damages. Many of those stories were confined to mother and Vipin. Only my mother and I know how many mistakes I have made, but I kept getting exemptions. That story has now gone with my mother.' Vipin thinks in the wave of his mother's memory, 'If that incident had reached my father's ears, I would have beaten him up a lot.' Also

, when the children spoil the work. At that time, she would get angry. In Arjuna's memory, one day his sister steals Farsi and brings it back to Arjuna. Children used to see their mother differently when she was angry.

Vipin has some flashbacks with his mother. As he remembers his mother beating him terribly. The mother, who sent him to see the fair with great love without knowing his father, and kept covering up his mistakes, beat him very, very hard that day. Vipin's goat entered the neighboring grandmother's field. She scolded Vipin. He also abused his grandmother. After reaching home, she continued to abuse her mother.

Vipin thought that mother would go to fight with grandmother but the clock turned in the opposite direction. She picked up a stick stuck on the wall and started beating Vipin. Furious, she kept yelling at Vipin – what did you say to the grandmother? Didn't you find it difficult to speak like this? At that time, Bipin thought - Hey! Does the mother have such a form? Is mother still angry? Is she my mother? Why is it not beaten like this until today? If I had received any sign of such a beating before, I would have been scared too! Will beat such a storm?

That day, Vipin's whole body felt a tingling sensation.

After that, Vipin never used a bad word. "And I started to fear my mother, even though I understood the mother's 'limit' that day," says Bipin, "how much is the "limit" of mothers' anger, how much happiness! How much do mothers give concessions, how much caution! I found out by reading mother.' Not just anger, laughter, jokes, sarcasm was Saraswati's way of life. Vipin feels, 'Humor in my art is a quality that comes from my mother. I am very much like my mother. My teeth are like my mother's, my nature is like my mother's, my hair is like my mother's, I am completely like my mother, I am a photocopy of my mother.' When she went from the village to the city, her father would give her money, but he would say, 'The elder will do the business, why do you want so much money?' Saraswati used to have money that she had saved by selling mustard, pigeons and chickens and hiding it from her husband. She used to take the lusukka out of the box and hide it separately so that no one would know, she would fill Vipin's pocket. She used to say 'don't tell anyone'. Bipin was completely unemployed before entering film-drama. Relatives and friends used to say to him, 'Spit ass, don't eat it'. But, mother used to say, 'Younger! Keep working hard, one day you will avoid everyone's face.'

Saraswati was extremely happy after Bipin became the San of Nepal. She used to say, 'Younger! You kept our name. Saraswati used to tell some dear/unloved memories of life to her sons. Some sweet food or nuts were in between her lips, which she kept for her sons. After the mother's departure, Bipin and Arjun realize that before the mother's love, the love of others is fading!

प्रकाशित : भाद्र १८, २०८१ ०९:३५
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