Ranju Jha was among the five people who died in a bomb attack in Janakpur . Ranju Jha, a prominent figure in art and theatre circles, was a well known actor of Nepali and Maithili TV serials and plays. She was also associated with the campaign for a separate Mithila province in Nepal.
The 35-year-old Ranju Jha was killed after a motorcycle bomb ripped through a political dharna for Mithila at Ramanand Chowk in Janakpur.. Ranju had joined the dharna in solidarity with representatives of 57 cultural, literary and theatre groups, her artist fellow-travellers.
The Mithila movement began in north Bihar in the late 70s with the demand for a separate Mithilanchal but it has not got any kind of momenum yet.In Nepal however, the story is very different and the movement has grown stronger and stronger.
After 2006, as demands for provinces based on ethnicity gained momentum, activists for the Maithili language and culture formed the Mithila Rajya Sangharsh Samiti. The indefinite relay dharna that Ranju attended was begun after Maoist chief Prachanda said that his party would support the creation of 10 provinces, but left no space for Mithila.
According to the organisers of the dharna, the samiti was galvanised by the strident Madhesi demand for "One Madhes, One Pradesh", of which the Mithila region would be "an insignificant part". Maithili is spoken across a vast stretch of the Terai from Morang in the east to Parsa in the west.
Ranju was a gifted artist, with no formal training. She came from a simple family, and went to a village school. The ordinary Maithil woman with a sweet voice was on her way to regional stardom.
Ranju worked with Madan Krishna and Haribansh, Nepal's most commercially successful artist duo, in the serials Ama (Mother) and Srishti (Creation), and did the popular Katha Mitho Sarangiko (Tale told by the Sweet Sarangi), a drama produced by BBC Media Action.
She had one of the two lead roles in Chaukathi (The Threshold), a critically-acclaimed short film about two women directed by Dipak Rauniyar. Ranju worked in several Maithali plays like Okhali Muha Dekhaichhi, Hutaha Ghail, Gam Nai Khataiya, Push Jaad ki Magh Jaad, Birju Biltu Ababu and Pret Chahe Asoj, and contributed significantly to the growing popularity of Maithili plays in Kathmandu and other non-Maithili areas.
The 35-year-old Ranju Jha was killed after a motorcycle bomb ripped through a political dharna for Mithila at Ramanand Chowk in Janakpur.. Ranju had joined the dharna in solidarity with representatives of 57 cultural, literary and theatre groups, her artist fellow-travellers.
The Mithila movement began in north Bihar in the late 70s with the demand for a separate Mithilanchal but it has not got any kind of momenum yet.In Nepal however, the story is very different and the movement has grown stronger and stronger.
After 2006, as demands for provinces based on ethnicity gained momentum, activists for the Maithili language and culture formed the Mithila Rajya Sangharsh Samiti. The indefinite relay dharna that Ranju attended was begun after Maoist chief Prachanda said that his party would support the creation of 10 provinces, but left no space for Mithila.
According to the organisers of the dharna, the samiti was galvanised by the strident Madhesi demand for "One Madhes, One Pradesh", of which the Mithila region would be "an insignificant part". Maithili is spoken across a vast stretch of the Terai from Morang in the east to Parsa in the west.
Ranju was a gifted artist, with no formal training. She came from a simple family, and went to a village school. The ordinary Maithil woman with a sweet voice was on her way to regional stardom.
Ranju worked with Madan Krishna and Haribansh, Nepal's most commercially successful artist duo, in the serials Ama (Mother) and Srishti (Creation), and did the popular Katha Mitho Sarangiko (Tale told by the Sweet Sarangi), a drama produced by BBC Media Action.
She had one of the two lead roles in Chaukathi (The Threshold), a critically-acclaimed short film about two women directed by Dipak Rauniyar. Ranju worked in several Maithali plays like Okhali Muha Dekhaichhi, Hutaha Ghail, Gam Nai Khataiya, Push Jaad ki Magh Jaad, Birju Biltu Ababu and Pret Chahe Asoj, and contributed significantly to the growing popularity of Maithili plays in Kathmandu and other non-Maithili areas.
Among Ranju's other films were Ahan ke aanchal, Mamata Gawai Geet, Senur, Sasta Jindi Mahag Senur and Piya Karab Gohar. She lived in Vinodanand Jha Colony in Madhubani town, and did stage shows on either side of the border, in Janakpur as well as in Darbhanga, Madhubani, Saharsa, Madhepura and Supaul in Bihar.
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