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Podcast: Insight Myanmar
Episode: Going Off Script
Description: Episode #420: āThis is this shit is real.Ā This is not a dream. This is real.āĀ Ā Burmese actor and public figure Khar RaĀ recountsĀ a path that runs fromĀ MogokĀ to Yangon, into entertainment, and thenāafter the 2021 coupāinto public dissent, displacement, and ongoing advocacy.Ā He grew up onĀ MogokāsĀ west side. Money was tight; his father died from alcohol; his mother remarried and left; with no siblings, he lived among relatives and kept one house rule:Ā donātĀ drink,Ā donātĀ smoke. Before leaving he told a friend he would not return unless he had become an artist.Ā