The Song Collector - Documentary film

Through the intimate interactions of three generations of the Namgyal family, The Song Collector explores the uneasy relationship between culture and development and ultimately offers a new vision, inspired by the Buddhist concept of the ‘middle path’, that seeks to find a lasting coexistence between tradition and modernization.
A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY ERIK KOTO EDITED BY GRETCHEN BURGER
FEATURING MUSIC BY MORUP NAMGYAL WITH TSERING CHOROL AND STANZIN "NONO" SAMCHOK
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
MountainFilm Telluride (world premiere)
Winner - Indomitable Spirit Award, MountainFilm Telluride
BANFF Mountain Film Festival
Seattle South Asian Film Festival
Buddhist Film Festival Europe
Brescia Mountain Culture Festival
Kathmandu International Film Festival
Winner - Awareness Film Festival merit award
Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival Library
Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival
Ethnografilm Festival Paris
Rainier Arts Center screening series
NalandaWest spiritual center screening
Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference
Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival
PBS broadcast - Reel NW
Northwest Folklife Festival

[@morupnamgyal4896]

This is because of your blessings and encouragement. This flim has awarded with the Mountain Flim Award 2016 in USA. I thank Mr. Erik Koto who is the well wisher of Ladakh, Lamdon and Myself and because of him I am able to visit USA and got the opportunity to receive the Mountain Flim Award. Thank You my friends , well wishers for your kind blessings and kind words. Jullay and Thank You Erik Koto this is because of your hard work for making the Song Collector. Regards 🙏

[@rikkinamgail9103]

Biggest fan of u sirr. ...... I am rigzen Namgail from changthang and I learnt our traditional song for marriage a little bit...... And I am proud of it....

[@yeshidorjay5480]

Amazing life story and great Contribution for the Ladakhi society. Jullay May May Morup Namgial. You are a great man of Ladakh! Long live May May le. Ya ju

[@Antena.est13]

ka Morup Namgyal not only entertained a generation but passed down his knowledge to the younger generation in a very beautiful way. Today I see many younger folks taking great interest in folk songs again. All credit goes to Ka Morup Namgyal. Stay happy and stay blessed Ka🙏

[@ldkestore]

Best documentary i have seen on a ladakhi personality

[@sghai948]

What a beautiful, absolutely brilliant documentary 👏👍🙏❤️ .... Magnificent n vast, endless Ladakh region share many things with Tibet including culture, diet/ food habits, songs music & landscape. Present day Ladakh share its peaceful borders with many peaceful people in the neighbourhood.

[@tashiwangyal1467]

Very nice story ajang murop namgyal Yang domo domo rik share choyo tset nering tsering ma demo ly 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@ttopten52]

Wow it’s so amazing you are true legend of Ladakh Morup Namgyal lay-I have no words to say but one think I would like to say you are hero of Ladakh 🙏🙏

[@TenzinUnfiltered]

Truly heart rendering film. Mr. Morup’s true dedication and passion to preserve Ladakhi folk songs and pass down to his family and younger generation. May his vision and dream be fulfilled

[@dawatashi3307]

Kaga morup namgail legendary Of ladakh..🎉🎉🎉

[@tashidolker3924]

Beautiful documentary you are great and true legend of Ladakh padma shri Murup Namgail lay you are best Singer of Ladakh , God bless you sir

[@ladakhnewsinfo]

Amazing 🎉❤ heartouching story of "legendary morup namgail"..... Well filmed by Erik....💐👏👏

[@tsewangnamgyal9343]

Legend ⭐

[@tseringgyalpo1960]

Great❤👍👏

[@PamaAngmo-p8o]

Tears literally rolled down my face while watching this film. I am very proud to be a member of lamdon family ❤️

[@DechenWangmo-rz6hs]

Wow!🤩😍 Such an overwhelming documentry film. Wanna express my heartfelt appreciation for sharing this incredible and precious video. It's a truly captivating and heartening video. Watching Ajhanglay cry truly moved me to tears. Wanna express special thanks to Ajhanglay Murup Namgyal , for his commendable efforts in safeguarding the cultural treasures of ladakh. ❤😍 Keep inspiring Ajhanglay.

[@tsewangnorbu6493]

Proud to be a ex lamdon school Student. 🙌

[@kalzangnorbuakaknorbs322]

Great documentary

[@tashiangchuk3604]

legendary padma sheri morup namgyal🎉

[@gyatsotukla6495]

Wow wow wow🎉🎉🎉🎉😍😍😍

[@NilzaAngmo-b7z]

❤❤❤❤

[@lobsangyeshi6764]

ལོ་རྒྱུས་བོ་མ་བདེ་མོ་དང་སྙན་མོ་ཞིག་ཚོར། ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ། འཇུ་ལེ།

[@tsewangnurboo3575]

Father's of ladakh Shri morup Namgail pb

[@nawangchundus232]

མ་བདེ་མོ་་རང་❤འདུག་་སྐྱིད་་པོ😍👍👍👍🏿

[@lobzangwangdus3818]

ལ་དྭགས་ཀྱི་དོན་ལ་ཕྱག་ལས་གང་ཆེན་མཛད་པར་ཨ་ཕ་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དང་ཁོང་གི་ནང་ཚང་ཀུན་ལ་བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་མང་པོ་ཞུ།

[@_deadshot__.7]

Wtfffff bro this is 2015 16 Leh Ladakh and you posted 7 months ago and there is 2023 🫡

[@StanzinShayan]

We call morup namgyal the father of ladakhi music for a reason ❤ & he's such an inspiration. I still remember how he helped me by writing my 1 Ladakhi song without any hesitation. Forever in our heart & all our respect & gratitude ❤

[@tenzinwangdu6429]

It was Ladakh-Tibetan Border…Ladakh clearly was influenced by Tibetan Way of life and Tradition.There’s nothing common between china and Ladakh’s Culture but Tibetan Culture and Ladhakhs Culture clearly resembles.Ladhakh Clearly used to be part of Tibet back in the day.

[@thinlesladakhi8654]

Such a wonderful documentary.. Really love it

[@gyalu0077]

I'm extremely inspired by his contribution to Ladakh society and motivated with his divine voice. 🎉 tried to find his sing on Spotify, can't find!!

[@tsering.g]

Such a beautiful documentary.Truly proud to be a part of Lamdon family ❤

[@Beastslayer.1]

Thanks Mr Erik... salute to ur hard work to make this video... Plz upload the making of this video . And from where did u ge those old clips of ladakh?

[@Chenn963]

His simplicity his passion for music and his dedication to preserve the good values of our ancestors. Salute to this legendary. Immense respect for murup namgyal lay 🙏

[@StanzinYangzom-q9c]

Such a extra ordinary documentary film....Sir Murup Namgyal is really a legend n a true inspiration to ladakhs pa... really appreciate for all ur hardwork.. The whole video is really a emotional n heart touching...

[@review_hub102]

Capturing the soul-stirring melodies of Ladakh's enchanting singer, this documentary seamlessly weaves together the threads of culture, passion, and resilience, creating a harmonious masterpiece that resonates with the heartbeats of a unique musical heritage.❤

[@BarbosaRockci-zp5lb]

Life long knowledge is wisdom. He is one of the treasure of the ladakh.

[@Sk-nw6eb]

Best documentary 🎉 Thank you👏🏻

[@dorjay7858]

Amazing and thank you for making such a beautiful one.

[@tsewangnamgyal4813]

The documentary film was extremely well and good. also Kaga M Namgyal was a legend of Ladakh🌸🌸

[@paldandorjey388]

May May morup namgyal ly you are inspiration ❤

[@Tranquil1995]

What a masterpiece

[@stanzingyaltson1280]

Ka thukje chey chey. Ma demoly yang tontak chan dukly please continue in future also great.....👌👍🙏💐

[@thinlayraru]

Great man and what a work have been done for the people of ladakh

[@chochoedu53]

Ma demo lay....Beautiful documentary...

[@stanzintakpa]

Indeed he contributed immensely for the music 🎵🎵🎵 of Ladakh and Lamdon we all know have ultimate impact on the society of Ladakh!!!

[@jigmatstanzin2223]

Tus yamtsan manog lay, meenam yamtsan eenog lay... Like tusnam meegyur, meenam gyur.... 0.40

[@thupstangurmet2893]

བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ།

[@kungadepp6593]

Great documentary 👍👍

[@nawangstanzin3921]

thank you ladakh father murup namgal

[@konchoknorgyas4900]

Thank you father murup namgal and madam chorol lay very nice

[@HYPOCRISY___]

Thanks Mr. Erik from the core of my heart ❤❤❤

[@ladakhdiaries..3577]

It's great contribution to uplift culture and custom of ladakh

[@Ladakhdheaven]

Immense contribution by Mama Murup Namgyal 🙏.

[@loveladakh7971]

Thank you for this.

[@KumzangNamdol]

🙏🙏🙏🙏❤

[@Tashizotak]

We salute you Aba murup Namgyal Lyy 🙏🙏🙏

[@zomskitdolma4861]

Such a great documentary 😍❤

[@SonamWangdus-s8e]

Film ma demo duk lay vvv nice acho lay

[@wallamboklahong9125]

My most fondled songs are these Flock songs, as I give my ears to hear them, they freshren my Childhood beautiful playful Days. They are Lovely and Great. Every Tribes have Flock cultural Songs by which try to present their ways n Likings, etc.

[@tsewangnamgyal7373]

Wow what a great documentary film😍

[@Tseringstopdan]

🎉🎉🎉😅😅😅rak hy mama ley bas

[@rinurbu]

Very well made 👏

[@esheykar9845]

We have immense respect to ajangly Morup Namgail. Thank you for doing so much and giving back so much to our society. You will always Iive in our hearts and of future generations forever .👏👏🙏🏻💐

[@stofficialyt7503]

A gem of ladakh 💎 truly proud❤️

[@themagpieladakh]

All tear 😢❤

[@tsewangchosdon]

A masterpiece. A must watch!

[@tsedupgyatso28]

❤️

[@KonchokNamgail-e8n]

Aba Murup namgail you are my favourite singer you make a ladakh ladakh proud that we have a old ladakh song I really listen your songs rather than modern song 👍🙏🥺

[@padmanamgyal7427]

We love it❤

[@defal_ladakh]

❤

[@kodoley09]

Thank you Team l keep updating more

[@AnayatNabi]

Ladakh proud of you sir

[@Ahmadaliexplore]

❤❤

[@GelekLundup]

Great👍👍👍

[@RigzinTongyan]

❤❤

[@shyiwatsho5339]

Such a lovely documentary. Am in love with the Ladakhi way of life and people. Kudos to Yap Namgyal for preserving his culture and way of life.

[@katnip198]

Beautiful documentary. This man left many wonderful songs for the people of Ladakh. I know the impact his life has and will have on his grandson.

[@thupstandawa1908]

Very Unfortunate to be a part of India 🥹 GAREEEB DESH 😇