To My Bosom Friend

A film by Burmese director Maung Wunna.

Ta Pyi Thu Ma Shwe Htar is a 1994 Burmese drama film, directed by Sin Yaw Mg Mg starring Kyaw Thu and May Than Nu. It was based on the popular novel "Ta Pyi Thu Ma Shwe Htar", written by Tekkatho Phone Naing.

Myat Htun, a modest writer, and Khin Mi navigate the challenges of love, parenthood, and conflicting ambitions in this intimate portrait of a marriage under strain.

Made under the Burmese dictatorship, Maung Wanna’s debut feature tells a story of Sein Lin, the drummer for a traditional dance theatre group in Rangoon, who falls in love with beautiful dancer Khin San. When she leaves the group to pursue a career as a film actress, he gives her a small figure as a keepsake, a symbol of traditional theatre. He tells her to return it only when she is certain she wants to stay in film. The dancer’s independence in choosing to become a film actress breaks with cultural tradition, as does Sein Lin’s performance in a jazz club, symbolising the colonial influence.

Wealthy heir Koko falls in love with ordinary girl Katta and marries her, they are both orphans. During her pregnancy, Katta receives a family heirloom necklace from Koko's aunt. When she visits her grandmother Daw Gyan Bone before giving birth, she discovers her grandmother also owns an identical one. Despite their loving marriage, Katta never returns to Koko. What secret do the matching necklaces reveal about their past?

Set against the backdrop of Rangoon University, the tender romance between Aung Latt and the enchanting student Wai Lwin Lwin.

Khin Khaing marries Nyein Maung to fulfill her dying mother's wish, but resents how pregnancy derailed her dreams of studying abroad. While her devoted husband pours his love into raising their mentally challenged child, she sees the child as an obstacle to her ambitions. As their conflicting approaches to parenting and life goals tear the marriage apart, their vulnerable child bears the emotional trauma more than age.

Dr. Kyi Thar (Myat Lay), who works at the intensive-care unit, Mental Health Hospital, Yangon, and the patient Ma Htar Htar (Myat Mon), an elder sister of a friend. They met for the very first time on his duty. Though the friend¹s family was from Mandalay, they came to Yangon, to Dr. Kyi Thar to take the medical treatment with great expectations. They were right as she was getting much better as time went by and in their relationship too. Both of them knew they were deeply in love, attached to each other without mentioning a thing.