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Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, known in the film world as Khyentse Norbu, has completed principal photography on “Perfect God,” following a month-long shoot in Kathmandu, Nepal. The production has unveiled the film’s first looks.

The film, adapted from Nepali author Samrat Upadhyay’s short story “The Limping Bride” from his collection “Arresting God in Kathmandu,” follows Ram, a middle-aged Behrupiya – a traditional performer who impersonates gods and other figures at weddings and parties around Kathmandu. When his wife Maya dies suddenly, Ram faces a crisis he cannot perform his way out of, left with his alcoholic, unemployed son Moti, an aspiring avant-garde photographer.

“This film came from a very simple feeling,” Norbu explained in an interview conducted by assistant director Abishek Budhathoki. “I’ve always been drawn to characters who live in between things, between identities, between worlds. People who don’t quite fit, but they keep performing, surviving.

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