The days when Wangdu was a serf are long gone,since democratic reform in Tibet in 1959 declared the end of serfdom there.However,he won fame and was remembered as Serf Champa.The former serf enjoyed his time in the limelight in 1963,when the film Serf starring Wangdu was shown across China.Wangdu needed almost no guidance from the director on how to act in the film since he had suffered even more miseries in real life than the movie's hero,Champa.