Maitighar is a 1966 Nepali film directed by B.S. Thapa. It was the third Nepali film produced and the first under a private banner. This film features bollywood actressMala Sinha in the lead role with Nepali actor Chidambar Prasad Lohani whom she marries.
Plot
A girl who was born in Pokhara was sent to jail for 11 years but she didn't want togo out of the jail then police officer calls a deceive doctor than she tells her story about herself. She tells the story falling in love with and marrying Mohan and living a simple life with him. But they get separated from each other when Mohan goes to the jungle for the hunt to kill animals but he comes home dead. After the death of Mohan, his mother calls Maya a witch who killed her son and everyone calls her witch and they say "Wish she died before birth". Then she gets blamed for everything that happens in the village and Mohan's mother takes her son away. After that she decides to leave the village than living in a house like a hell. While she was leaving her house people find her then start to chase her down. Then she finds a woman at a random place who sells her as a dancer and locks her down in her house. She tries to escape that place and when all goes in vain, she tries to kill herself in that room but fails. After while she accepts her job but she wishes to see her son "Ratu" but they say you can't see him than she starts to beg to she her son after that they let her see her son After that, she joins a college for speaking she tells everyone about the old Nepal from her religious Hindu book. She gives advice to everyone about living life. After her job at college she gets accused of killing of her owner "Malik Sab" than she gets sentenced to prison for 11 years. Then the story reveals how had killed himself with Bish/Drugs. Then she meets her son at the prison as a police officer. Than her son and her meet her daughter as last wish of her before going to the prison. After telling the story she kills herself at the prison. After they resized the police officer and her mitini were her children. The films end with her death with a song.
Cast
Mala Sinha as Maya - the key cast/role in this movie. She is married to Mohan and was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
Maitighar was the first film to be produced under a private banner in Nepal. It had many Indians contributing towards the making of the film - actors, musicians and technicians. The place where the office for film shooting was established in Kathmandu, Nepal has been named Maitighar after the movie.
Reception
Maithighar was a commercially successful movie in Nepal after the success of the movie the place this movie was filmed in got named Maithighar.
