Chintanakan (2022 Film)

Chintanakan Kachai ຈິນຕະນາການ Estmerish: Fantasy Fantaisie Gaullican
Theatrical release poster for the Montecara Film Festival
Chintanakan
Directed by	Duazaiginhe Thammavonga
Written by	Malena Bortei
Screenplay by	Phayvanh Narimangsy Baizhan Nurzhavong
Produced by	Aisana Zemhinou Madthai Marlenevanh Oljeitu Somphousiharath
Starring	Gladis Saenbouthalath Ambaghai Siharathi Nazar Siyavong Dazadiu Guchlug Keani Manwilaivong Somphone Fomenkongsy
Cinematography	Lae Rattanavognsa
Edited by	Maral Gavagamu
Music by	Kale Saysanasy
Production company	Houa Studio
Distributed by	Houa Studio
Running time	129 minutes
Country	Lavana
Languages	Kachai Gaullican
Budget	€9 milliion
Box office	€100 million

Chintanakan is a fantasy directed and produced by Duazaiginhe Thammavonga. Chintanakan means fantasy in Kachai, and is loosely based on Kachai mythology developed in the 13th century. The film follows the goddess of luck Nanphutin, and her mischievous interactions both for good and bad in the world of mortals, using her powers to affect the plans of her father, the Emperor of the Gods for her own entertainment. Her mischievous actions result in Nanphutin losing her powers and being instead turned into an immortal guide for the souls a Phutiaent, as punishment that she will learn the meaning of life. The story is a mixture of Kachai mythological stories.

Plot

Nanphutin (Gladis Saenbouthalath) is the goddess of luck and daughter of the Emperor of the Gods, Cha (Nazar Siyavong). Nanphutin is given near uncontrolled ability to influence world events, causing asteroids, great floods, great empires, and great cities to satisfy whatever amuses her. Her father displeased with the way Nanphutin has used her powers, places restraints on her. He starts getting more involved in the world and its managing, as his fellow Gods are displeased at Nanphutins unchecked power and his disinterest with the lives of mortals. Angered by the new restrictions placed on her power, she transforms herself into a Red Great Crane and transverses the mortal world in ways to influence it both positively and negatively. She encounters Manvalat (Dazadiu Guchlug), a general favored by her father to become a great ruler. Angered by her father, she uses her form as a Crane to humiliate Manvalat to her fathers displeasure. When Manvalat is tricked by Nanphutin transformed as a beautiful woman to seduce him, Manvalat is killed by his troops who perceive the formerly invincible Manvalat as weak, causing their army to splinter into infighting. Upon hearing of this, Cha punishes Nanphutin to become a Phutiaent a rower of the mortal souls from the world of the living to the world of the dead, who do so through the Great River. Nanphutin is angered by this, but is powerless to change her faith.

Nanphutin performs her job in the great river, with great irritation. There she meets Pasoennaiav (Ambaghai Siharathi) a man with the face of a Red Crane cursed for eternity by Cha to ferry the souls across the river. Pasoennaiav becomes quick friends with Nanphutin and shows her how to connect with the souls she's ferrying moments before their death. Nanphutin is able to relieve the final moments of a housewife's life, before it was abruptly ended when a rock fell on her walking, in another a man bleeds out to death after a battle, and a man dies of old age surrounded by his loving family. Nanphutin discovers that she is ferrying souls from all time periods, allowing her to experience the year 2022 through the eyes of a nurse who tragically dies from a heart attack while attending the wedding of her son. Nanphutin enjoys experiencing the world outside the river and raft, but soon becomes depressed by the amount of lives cut short. On one such trip, she discovers a daughter and her mother (Keani Manwilaivong) enjoying a fine meal, before the restaurant catches fire and collapses on everyone. The incident breaks Nanphutin who promises to never again see into the lives of the dead, she is comforted by Pasoennaiav, and the two develop an intimate relationship.

3 Years have passed since Nanphutin and Pasoennaiav got together, and they both decide to get married. Upon hearing of this, Cha disproves of the idea, and banishes Pasoennaiav to the realm of the mortals, where he will live his life and then die only to travel eternally in the world of the dead. Nanphutin is heartbroken and stops her work in ferrying the souls as a result of this. The pile up of souls allows some of them to get above water and they're able to interact with Nanphutin. She meets a Gaullican Opera singer who proceeds to deliver an incredible performance before she falls back into the river as a light hanging above her falls down and kills her, with the whole scene being a trip through a souls last moments before death. This discovery forces a heartbroken Nanphutin to continue her work ferrying the souls, to prevent more visions. She meets Pemia (Somphone Fomenkongsy) an alchemist with the face of a Crocodile, thats also a Phutiaent, who was sent to help Nanphutin as the souls were piling up. Pemia tells Nanphutin that she can enter the world of the living through the river of souls, but must swim to the bottom of the river. Nanphutin who is desperate does as indicated but quickly discovers that it is a lie and drowns inside the river.

Nanphutin enters the space between worlds, before exiting in the other side, as she enters 2022 as a 20 year old woman. She attempts find out what happened but discovers she's inside a hospital. She discovers she is the soul of the last person she looked at in the river, as the daughter who died when the restaurant she was dining in caught fire and collapsed. Surprised by this she leaves the hospital when she remembers about Pasoennaiav, whose last vision was about a man in 14th century Lavana, saddened by this she wanders the streets of modern Lavana.