pic from Santa Banta Yuden Zongtenpa plays a key role in the movie "....and Once More" directed by the famed Amol Palekar. The film is exclusively shot in Sikkim. Yuden Zongtenpa is a student of Tashi Namgyal Academy. Below is the extract of the review of the film that was screened in Goa Sikkimese Child Actress Grabs Hearts By Andrew Stephenson - BollySpice.com 29 Nov 2009 Trapped between Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan, the mountainous Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim, which only officially became part of India in 1975, is not known for the number of Bollywood actors it produces - but it may have found a star of the future in seven-year-old Yuden Zongtempa. Yuden steals the movie in Avartan (now "....and Once More") , currently being screened at the International Film Festival of India in Goa. Yuden, who is being raised in California where her father is an IT professional, had no problems with the dialogue as the film was shot in English. The movie's title refers t...
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