Ankit Babu Adhikari’s new music video ‘Ma Ko Nai Po Hu Ra’ has been a recent release in the Nepali music industry. The song that is claimed to be a tribute to Mahakavi Laxmi Prasad Devkota’s ‘Mrityusaiya’—that he created while breathing his last—was written by Manish Basistha—the noted song writer who has already lent his words to Karma Band (a popular Nepali band)’s ‘Khojdai chhu’, among many others.

Directed by Alok Lamsal, the music video shows a character contemplating about life at the Pasupathinath Aryaghat. He sees his aesthetic element of life being burnt in a funeral pyre. The video essentially tries to portray that pride, ego and selfishness are worthless.

Adhikari stepped into the Nepali music industry with spiritual-oriented and satirical number ‘Raam Naam Japdai Man Manama’ and since then he has added socio-political number ‘Nau Futey Bhoot’ and ‘Aakashaiko Naulakhe Tara’ into his experimental account.

“The song demanded boldness in singing which was different from what I tried in my previous numbers,” says Adhikari, adding, “The song had to be sung cautiously as it is a devotion to Mahakavi’s poem.”

The song which was released on YouTube on June 30 has already received over 28,000 views.

It is a matter of time whether the song gains popularity in the Nepali music industry at a time when item and remix numbers are in the most people’s choice.

“The song was an outcome of my effort to try and understand Mrityusaiya’s essence in which Devkota has humbly noted meaning of the life, death and human significance,” says songwriter Manish Basistha.

Basistha shares that this song is something worth remembering forever as such songs are rarely written.

Composer Sushant Gautam terms the song as ‘dark song’.  “This song was both an opportunity and challenge in my career,” says Gautam.

Another important aspect of this strongly worded song is its music video. Video Director Lamsal says it was a challenging to visualise the philosophical values of the songs.

“The meaning of this song was symbolically presented to transmit the message into viewer’s mental frame,” says Lamsal.

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