People do not forget the navel. He who is forgotten is not at peace. Bishnu Bahadur KC is not calm. In the film 'Bhuthan' directed by Vinod Paudel, one of the main characters is a tree. Just as a lonely tree is sad on a misty winter day, so in the life of Vishnu there is darkness, some lack and much desolateness. There are 'sufferings' in every phase of Vishnu-Chola, where dreams and reality do not go on a parallel graph - the two must meet at a great point and meet at many angles-triangles.

There is a thing standing on the gray dry ground - a tree. Even Vishnu is lonely like a tree. Just as there are no leaves on a tree, all the leaves have fallen from Vishnu's life, some are yet to fall. Like the Shishir tree, the stone has grown from the life of Vishnu. 

His grandfather used to say to Vishnu that a grown tree should not be moved to another place, it is a sin. After being expelled from Bhutan, the root of Vishnu's life has been moved to America through Nepal. Who feels this sin? He doesn't know. However, he is not tired of calling the Bhutanese embassy in the US several times to move to his home. He has to return to Bhutan. Vishnu's seeding is a 'root identity crisis'. 

In the 21st century, developed countries are under tension due to 'politics' and 'power'. People are not able to live where they belong, which is their biological right. People are deprived of this right. What kind of socio-political structure have we built?

Ex-football player (gold medalist) Bishnu also came to Nepal along with thousands of people who were expelled from Bhutan - he stayed for 20/22 years keeping Bhutan in mind, the dream of returning to the country remained unfulfilled and came to America in the name of 'resettlement'. Man is a creature who wants to return to his roots. He wanders until he finds a root. Culture, language and identity are perhaps the most important issues in human life. There may be peace and money in America, but why does Vishnu want to return to his own country? Returning to the roots, searching for identity is probably the root of his happiness. That's why he keeps barbaric every time - Bhutan. There is no place even in America where Vishnu lived, except for a simal tree and an innocent memory of his mother. Even if Vishnu is in a country, Vishnu has no country. America has given shelter, but even though the soil is the same, that soil does not have the fragrance of Bhutan. And Bhutan does not accept it as its own, there is a possibility of staying in jail if it comes to Nepal. Just suffocating between walls and prohibitions has become an important chapter in the life of 'Vishnu'. And, the purple border stands on the path of life.

The skeletons of life, dreams and politics are piled up, layer upon layer, layer upon layer – in 'Bhuthan'. The film tells the story of 3 generations – Vishnu, son and granddaughter. All are going through a cultural and identity crisis. They are neither local nor foreign. Vishnu survives by hanging on by a thin thread – returning to the canopy of the simal tree planted by his mother. His lips tremble - like the ground trembles! The eyes are not raining, but are puffed up like a misty cloud. The color of the film is 'gloomy' like clouds. The winter valley is also 'gloomy'! In fact, the film itself is 'gloomy'! 

Granddaughter Gungun was born in Nepal, but grew up in America. Having become an American, she has her own existential crisis. She admits that she is a lesbian, but her family objects. And she is going through an identity crisis. It is said that America is a democratic country. However, the power that has come there now does not prioritize sexual and gender minority communities. So the granddaughter is not only a family of traditional thinking from Bhutanese culture, she is fighting with the whole of America - for identity. The 'Gay Parade' movement is going on in the snowy streets. 

is the middle-class generation – Gungun's father, Karma, and mother, who are neither from Bhutan nor from America. She wants a son. They look modern, but the spirit of the old culture is in the blood. Perhaps because the daughter is a lesbian, the desire for a son has grown in her. 

Vishnu's elder wife is a staunch Hindu from India. Says - I went from India to Bhutan, from Bhutan to Nepal and from Nepal to America, but I never thought about leaving my religion. Religion is my breath. How can you let go of your breath?' She asks her husband Vishnu - 'Why did you embrace Christianity?' He says - 'It is because of this religion that you have reached somewhere quickly.' But where is that 'reaching'? All are ignorant. The elder wife is a staunch and conservative Hindu spokeswoman, who carries the spirit of an all-India state. The younger wife and her son Nirpang (American Army) have embraced Christianity, representing America. In 'Bhutan', 'Christianity' is doing politics by relying on people's suffering. Pasteur keeps saying to Vishnu from time to time - this is not something called a border, come to God, you will be safe! "If you want to be right, wear the umbrella of religion," says Pasteur, but no one says - "Be a man." 

Even in a 'so-called' democratic country like America, he is the spokesman of conservatism - Pasteur and his young wife and the Orthodox American representative who plays on people's suffering and spreads Christianity around the world. Every character in 'Bhuthan' is in pain. And all of them are lost thoughts from life. Once upon a time Hindu Vishnu was reciting the Mahamrityunjaya Mantra. However, Vishnu's heart is not at peace even after embracing Christianity. 

Vishnu's soul wishes to go on an eternal journey, to go to that place where life began! 'That' means returning to the mother's womb. Hidden from life, he seems to sleep like a fetus in his mother's womb in many scenes - there is no religion, no nation, no borders. He just wants to breathe bliss into a warm bosom. Actually he is trying to be a 'man'. And, running away - from the disaster of religion, country, relationship and restrictions. 

There is an American character waiting at the morgue – funeral director Tom. He is also very tired of life, he is fed up with lonely life. Discontents are heard – from child abandonment to union politics. He himself is in an identity crisis. Says - I don't like to talk to living people, I like to talk to dead people. 

Where there is Vishnu, there is no love, there is no 'warmth' of relationship. There is a rush, a dull life, the people are breathing, but the spirit has fled from them. It seems that the fictional or nightmarish old man waiting in the morgue communicates with the real dead. 

'Bhutan' discusses the freedom, decision and identity of 'people' living in this time through the life-story of Bhutanese refugees who came to America. Man is running fast after money, position, but actually he is running towards death.

There is a conflict between the two sons and wives of Vishnu who committed suicide in a train leak, "Bury or burn the body?" Hindu and Christian. That tension has Mortuary Kurua Tom puzzled. Even the solitary tree of Chaur standing in the snow catches fire. It is a dream of a fiery roar. In his dream, Tom says to the hummingbird - 'Can I go into your pregnant mother's womb?' Tom probably wants to enter the spirit of the fetus. His environment is surrounded by anomalies. 

The morgue is on fire. After the sudden and unexpected fire on Vishnu's body, Tom says - 'This is the result of eating fat and cola! Ajit from life and a lonely cremation director set the fire? Or is it due to an electric shock after melting the fat?'' The film does not answer. The director tells Gungun- 'There are so many secrets in this world, which you-we will never know.' 

The one-line story of 'Bhuthan' says - The world is in pain, people are traveling in the ups and downs of life carrying the burden of stress. There are only walls of prohibition and prohibition. Distant is – society/time and there is a terrible rift – life. Man has not been able to step on his own soil. There is conflict, there is religion, there is politics. The 'socalled' intellectuals are oppressing people under the guise of intelligence, the 'non-intellectuals' are suffering from conflict or religion. There is no happiness in life. There the existence of man has disappeared, the 'man' has disappeared from man. In this, Vishnu has a happy idea - instead of this world, there was happiness in the warm womb of the mother!

The story of a 'gloomy' world. The story of a man who lost his home. The story of a man who has lost his identity. Actually life is not smooth, there are layers. In the layers hidden by man there is deep darkness. 'Bhuthan' tells the story of life through the colors of 'Gloomy Winter', where the leaves fall from the trees, the environment is grey. The old tree, witnessing the sufferings of people, seems to be a storyteller of 'Bhuthan'.