Chinese movie filmed in Nepal
A Chinese movie has been filmed in the different places of Nepal like Chitwan, Pokhara and Kathmandu.
A Chinese movie called Up In the Wind (Deng Feng Lai) starring Ni Ni and Jing Boran is a story about an aspiring Shanghai-based lifestyle magazine writer trying to lift herself beyond her small-town roots.
Marketed largely as a romantic comedy of sorts, Up in the Wind actually doesn’t include a very distinct romance at its core. The film’s lead character Cheng Yumeng (Flowers of War star Ni Ni) is seen bickering with and finally warming up to spoilt rich kid Wang Can (Jing Boran), but words of empathy, acts of encouragement and a final gift void of any romantic connotations are the only things that are exchanged between the pair. Retaining the sentiment shaping Bao’s novel A Travelogue, Or A Guidebook, this framework is a nice counterpoint to how the emerging “chick-flicks” in China are all about young urban women nabbing a great guy and a great job, mostly in that order of priority.
In Up in the Wind Cheng is allowed to go through a Nepal-set rite of passage with her thoughts mostly focused on getting her own bearings correct, as she struggles to stick to her ideals or fulfill her dreams in the brights lights of Shanghai.
