The Moomins, a happy-go-lucky family of bare-feet and long-tailed beings living in the fictional Moomin Valley, were born out of her imagination and her life experiences.
Jansson, a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author, died on June 27, 2001, in Helsinki. “Binod has this very calming kind of baritone voice,” says Gauchan, which was exactly what he needed.īut while the Moomins were getting their Nepali voices in Kathmandu, Tove Jansson, the creator of the famous Finnish creatures, was in her final days. As Gauchan had already worked with Giri, he decided to entrust him with the responsibility of starting Moomin in Nepal, taking up the role of the narrator and selecting artists to voice the other characters. And Gauchan, who along with his friends started an animation studio in Kathmandu in the late 90s, wanted to bring in some fresh content on national TV. Then, Nepali television was attempting to diversify its content but there was a dearth of children’s programmes in Nepali. It started in 2001 when Giri was approached by director Deependra Gauchan, whom he had worked with on various projects, including the critically acclaimed series Ujeli on Nepal TV that dealt with the story of child marriage. A quick YouTube search for “Moomins in Nepali” yields hundreds of videos with thousands of likes and comments of fans asking when the show will return on television-almost two decades since the last episode aired.īut how the beloved Moomins arrived in Nepal is a story on its own. But it’s not just him and the people who visit him that fondly remember the Moomins, a Finnish show that was translated into Nepali.
Giri likes it better when he gets the opportunity to talk to a ’90s kid, as the conversation sends him down memory lane and gives him a chance to relive being the voice of the beloved patriarch of a family that had captured the imagination of thousands of children across Nepal. “But to the kids of the ’90s, I am Moomin Baba,” he says, with a grin. To the older lot, he is the voice of the sidekick of the famous Krisi Budhi Aama (agriculture grandmother in English), who has been on air on Radio Nepal for over five decades. Giri, who until recently worked at the government-run Agriculture Information and Training Centre, says he first tries to assess if the person speaking was in their late 20s or older than that. Many who visited him at this office in Lalitpur often told him this, says Binod Giri. “There’s something familiar about your voice.
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