Chandrawati – another controversial movie for adult audiance

The success of ‘Chapali Height‘ in box office and the success of similar themed previous movie ‘Palpalma’ have provided Nepali producers an news insight: an adult themed movie does a good business in Nepal. Following the same trend, another Nepali movie ‘Chandrawati’ is also set to be released bearing an adult certificate.

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Nepali Movie – Andaaz (2011)

Rekha Films presents
Nepali Movie – Andaaz(2011)
Starring – Rekha Thapa, Jiwan Luitel, Sabin Shrestha etc.
Producer – Ashok Sharma
Director – Ujwal Ghimire

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Nepali Movie – Yo Maya Ko Sagar(2001)

Ashok Sharma Presents
Nepali Movie – Yo Maya Ko Sagar(2001)
Starring – Rajesh Hamal,Karishma Manandhar, Ramesh Upreti, Jal Shah etc.
Fight – Rajendra Khadki
Story – Rajkumar Shrestra
Director – Ashok Sharma

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Arrested for killing girlfriend

Police arrested 21 years old youth on charge of killing his girlfriend.

Saughat Dhakal from Kapilbastu currently living in Kupondole has been charged for killing his girlfriend Bhawana Karki. 25 years old Karki, a native of Gatthaghar Bhaktapur, was living in a rented room at Jwagal, Kupondole and used to work at a call centre of Baneshwor.

The incident was occurred on March 23, but, the murder came to the light only after the week-long-closed door of the room was opened yesterday. There was a deep cut on her throat by a sharp Khukuri, according to police.

During investigation, it has been found that Karki was five week pregnant and she was constantly pressing Dhakal and his mother for marriage.  According to police, Dhakal has confessed of murder and during interrogation he has said that Karki has warned him to kill his mother if he did not marry her.

It is also learnt that Dhakal had been in relationship with another girl as well.

Earlier in August also, girlfriend was murdered and Lalitpur closure was announced in protest against it which has heated the capital.

2nd Little Miss World Nepal is going to be held

2^nd Little Miss World Nepal contest is going to be held in August in the capital. This is the same contest which winner, Bipaswi Poudyal, has made us proud by bringing home the highest title in the history of international beauty pageant. Bipaswi was crowned Little Miss World 2011 in Sunny Antalya, Turkey on October 8 2011 leaving behind 39 contestants who were representing 35 different countries.

The organizer, Nepalese Council has made such announcement and Managing Director of Nepalese council, Dipendra Ratna Shakya has said that in May 3^rd and 4^th week, there will be selection of contestants from Dharan, Dhangadhi, Nepalgunj, Damak, Birtamod, Pokhara, Butwal, Jhapa, Biratnagar, Kathmandu etc and then grand finale will be held in the capital.

Shakya added the final winner will get an opportunity to participate in 12^th Little Miss World that will be held in Turkey in September last week. Girls of age between 9 to 13 years can participate in this contest.

Nepali Movie – Apaharan

Sworgadwari Cine Makers presents Prem Bahadur Oli’s
Nepali Movie – Apaharan
Starring – Dipak Tripathi, Saujanya Subba, Bishal Bista, Amrit Jung Basnet, Dipendra Acharya etc.
Story – Kumar Raj Sharma
Director – Pratik

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Movie Review – My Life

Pre-release review of My Life was posted earlier.

Increasing number of music video directors have started making feature films. Jeewan Rashaili is one of those testing waters in big screen film making. In the past most of the successful music video directors had tried to make it big, couldn’t survive in the market. ‘My Life‘ will determine the future of the music video director Rashaili’s future.

Story:

‘My Life‘ is a love story of Prabhu (Suraj RD), a MBBS student and his love to Gauri (Jharana Thapa). Gauri’s brother helps Prabhu to win the heart of Gauri. Another character, Raghu (Kamal Krishna) is a rich businessman involved in drug business. When Raghu found out that his sister has fallen in love with Gauri’s brother Raghu tries to kill Gauri and her brother. Watching the movie will help you answer the question: Will Prabhu be able to save Gauri and her brother?

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Children imitating the act of film stars

Children do what they see. Children learn from imitating other’s act. They imitate what others do without thinking whether it is good or not. If they imitate good one, that will give good result. But if they imitate wrong thing, it may lead them to wrong way and even may harm them and others.

Likewise, they like to imitate the act of film stars too. While imitating such act in Taplejung, bad incident has occurred.

11 years old Keshar Purtel has got injured while imitating the act of famous Nepali fiim star Nikhil Uprety. Keshar poured kerosene on himself and lit the fire.

According to Keshar’s father, grade 3 student of local Bhagwati Primary School imitated Uprety’s act while playing with friends. Neighbor put off the fire after seeing Keshar burning. Treatment of injured Keshar is going on in Panchthar Hospital.

According to media report, similar incident has occurred earlier too in Nepalgunj and one boy jumped from terrace imitating the act of actor Biraj Bhatta.

Such repition of bad incidents demands that something should be done so that they won’t occur again and again in future too.

Bhuwan KC and Binita Baral – Result of the name change game

This time, there was an unlikely competition between a established producer and actor Bhuwan KC and a new entry actress Binita Baral. It was not only in changing their names on the suggestion of their respective astrologers, they also competed in creating controversies. And the unlikely winner was Binita Baral (we better call her Beenita Baral).

Nepali film industry is becoming more competitive these days. Established actors and actresses are facing hard time in remaining relevant in these days and the new actors and film makers are ruling our film industry. In this race, actor / producer, Bhuwan KC‘s attempt to make a comeback was not successful.

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Rajesh Hamal to act in comedy serial, Tito Satya

One of the most popular comedy serial in Nepal Television, Tito Satya, is going to be shot in UK featuring one of the top actors in Nepali movie industry, Rajesh Hamal.

The Tito Satya team is heading for UK on Chaitra 28 for two weeks with Rajesh Hamal who had already acted in another popular comedy serial Meri Bassai. The 3-episode serial will be telecasted that will focus on the story of Nepali artists who left country and live in foreign country.

In the past, Deepak Raj Giri and Deepa Shree Niraula’s comedy show had already featured other big-screen actors like Bhuwan KC, Raj Ballav Koirala, and Keki Adhikari. The episode featuring Raj Ballav Koirala is yet to be telecasted.

Chhadke – a new experiment in combating poster plagiarism

A graphic designer, Ananda Maharjan, has won the Open Movie Poster Competition for a Nepali Cinema "Chhadke".

Congratulation Ananda!

The movie producers have told that the winning poster will be used in the official promotion of ‘Chhadke‘. It is told that Ananda will also be involved in the design of other promotional materials.

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Rajani Thapa- Miss National Queen 2012

Rajani Thapa of Kathmandu won the title “Miss National Queen” of this year that was held on Thursday in Kathmandu. Rajani left behind 19 competitors and got opportunity to participate in Miss International Queen-2012 that is going to be held in South America.

Sweta Shrestha of Kathmandu became First Runner Up and Sudha Subedi became the Second Runner Up. Sweta and Sudha received cash prize of Rs 20000 and Rs 10000 respectively along with gift hamper.

Other title winners of this season 2 Miss National Queen are

Miss Friendship- Dhanu Sunuwar

Beautiful Hair- Risu Pokhrel

Beautiful Smile- Sristi Giri

Miss Discipline & Viewer’s Choice – Aasika Tamang

Miss Talent- Rajani Thapa

Miss Personality- Rashmita Khadka

Best Dress- Shila KC

Miss Best Catwalk- Sharmila Shrestha

According to the organizer, Everest Fashion Home, Rajani will be provided with various training before competing in South America.

Photo Credit: Facebook page of MISS National Queen (beauty pageant)

SLC examinee died after expelled

17 years old Ardana Pun of Rokadanda of Chunwang-7 died while undergoing treatment on Friday night who was expelled from ongoing School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examinations in remote Rukum district for misconduct, according to RSS report.

She was taking mathematics exam at Jhulkhet Exam Centre and became unconscious after she was expelled. Though she was rushed to local health post, her life could not be saved, said public health officer Shiva Narayan Rajak.

She was student of Nepal National Higher Secondary School, Chunwang.

Film Related Websites in Nepal (2012 Update)

I wrote about film related websites in Nepal in August of 2010. The websites reviewed at that time are still in operation. Some have improved in their quality and others have remained the same.

The sites I reviewed were:

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“Photokipa 2012”- Expo for all photo lovers

The first ever photography and digital imaging expo in Nepal is going to be held on 13th-15th April at Bhrikutimandap Exhibition Hall, Kathmandu.

Creative D. Pvt. Ltd. in association with Kathmandu Photographer’s Association is organizing this event Photokipa 2012. According to their press release, the fair will bring together the industry, trade, professional /amateur users and end consumers with a passion for photography and create a market, a market for people to understand and upgrade.

The fair has got strong support of 100 exhibitors from both international (China, India, Singapore, Korea) and domestic markets and offers the complete imaging experience with thousands of visitors featuring the latest photography equipment and technology and a series of concurrent forums and events.

There will be exhibition of photographs.  The history of camera will be shown. Brands will display their product in Professional Ramp Show. There will be trading interaction and learning in three days and many more.