Sahana Bajaracharya playing lead role in “Kollywood”

Miss Nepal 2010 first runner-up, Sahana Bajracharya, who has already played in ‘Goodbye Kathmandu’ as short appearance, has signed up and playing as the lead actress for the film “Kollywood”.

SLC examinee gave birth to baby and two SLC examinees killed in motorbike accident

Mina Rai of Chhintang VDC-2 gave birth to a baby boy while she was attending School Leaving Certificate (SLC) exam in Dhankuta on Monday and the baby has been named ‘Result’.

The baby boy was born immediately after she was rushed to Ankhisalla health post from Thakurdevi exam center in the district. She was appearing for exam of compulsory Nepali.

Similarly, on Tuesday, two examinees appearing for SLC exam had delivered baby in the exam center in Rukum district.

Two SLC examinees killed

Two students, who were going to attend School Leaving Certificate (SLC) exam on Wednesday, were killed in Bhaktapur in motorbike accident.

According to police, the deceased were15 years old Santosh Deuja of Katunjey, Bhaktapur and Bikash Lama, permanent resident of Jhapa district.

Deuja died while taking to hospital and Lama died while undergoing treatment. Both were on their way to exam center at Adarsha Ajad Secondary School Jagati in the motorbike registered as Ba 48 Pa 717.

The accident took place in Sipadol-2, Arniko highway at 7:00 am when the speeding bike tried to take a turn, according to police.

Nepali Movie – Arbapati (2010)

Sakchyam Films P. Ltd. presents
Dayaram Pudasaini’s second movie
Nepali Movie – Arbapati  (2010)
Starring – Nikhil Upreti, Jharana Thapa, Mausami Malla,Pramod Dip, Shankar Acharya, R P Pant, Bishnu Sapkota, Rashmi Bhatta, Mukunda Thapa etc.
Director – Dayaram Dahal

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Pre-Release Review – My Life

Introduction

‘My Life‘ is a Nepali movie produced by the Unlimited Dreams and Biwash Ghale and directed by Jeewan Rashaili. By observing the promo of the movie, one can say that it is targeted to the young generation. The movie is made in digital format and is being distributed by Digital Cinema Nepal.

Views of producer / director

According to the director, Jeewan Rashaili, who had spoken in various media, my life is a revenge thriller love story which is different from other movies in its technical aspects. He also added that he has tried to use special effects in the movie for the entertainment of the viewers. The movie is basically is about love story of youths and revenge.

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Nepali Movie – Sasu Nanda Bhauju (2010)

Jayamatadi Films Production presents
Nepali Movie – Sasu Nanda Bhauju (2010)
Starring – Garima Pant, Kalyan Ghimre, Ramesh Agrawal, Laxmi Giri, Bijay Kharee etc.
Music – Sanju Aamatya
Fight director -  Rajendra Khadkii
Director / producer – Satya Narayan Kayal

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Is sex good for Nepali film industry?

"Chapali height" got a good media coverage both before and after release. That was partly because of different controversies the movie was involved in before it was released, and ‘sexual psychology’ highlighted in it’s promotion. Although some have questioned the validity of the claims of its producer that ‘Chapali Height‘ has collected 50 lakhs in a single day, the publicity and viewers in theaters show it should have had a decent  opening. But, one can expect the initial response to fade in lights of negative reviews it is getting from critics and viewers.

Now, the question arises – is the movie getting negative review from viewers just because it has got sexual contents?

‘Chapali Height‘ compares well with a previous similar movie ‘Pal Pal Ma‘ released about two years ago. The movie ‘Pal Pal Ma‘ had also got an adult certificate from the censor board and it was publicized as the first Nepali movie to get an adult certificate. The ‘A’ certificate itself proved to be a tool of good publicity, and a good business as well. But, in essence, ‘Pal Pal Ma‘ had nothing to win the hearts of its viewers and virtually nobody appreciated it as a movie. In the movie, the topic of sex was only used for publicity and it was used in a vulgar way. (watch Palpalma here)

I think, history is repeating in case of ‘Chapali Height‘ too. In the case of both movies, small group of people liked the movie and the majority didn’t.

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Woman Killed by Husband

A woman of Sipapokhare VDC-7 has been killed by her husband on March 17 morning, according to police report.

Three days after the incident, Sudip Bhattarai, 23, has confessed to killing his wife Sharmila Bhattarai, 22, who was in her post-delivery period, by strangling her with a cloth.  Sudip hanged her in the ceiling after killing her.

The argument started between the couple after the wife declined to do household chores as she was not feeling well. She had given birth to a baby boy three months ago.

According to Republica, Police Inspector Sujankumar Rajbhandari said quoting Sudip, “She had not been working for long that day when I asked her to do some work, and she challenged me to finish her off if I was going to keep bothering her,” said Sudip. “I then lost my temper and squeezed her neck with a cloth, and she soon breathed her last”.

Though it was tried to show as suicide, the body was badly injured, her feet were touching the floor and the cloth used to hang her was not tight enough at the neck which show she was murdered, according to Rajbhandari. He added, “Villagers also told that Sudip and his family used to torture Sharmila every now and then”.

For post delivery care, Sharmila had stayed at her parental home for two months and returned home on March 5 only.

Short movie – Mars and Venus

Nepali Short Movie – Mars and Venus

Direction, and editing – Aashiq Regmi
Production design, screenplay and writer – Amit Aryal
Starring – Rajani Aryal, Amit Aryal
Music – Arun Gupta, Gurpreet sharma
Graphics Design – Amit Baral
Production assistant & special appearance – Deepa Ghimire

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Heavy criticism made Maoist expedition team to reject govt aid

After receiving intense criticism from several quarters for the decision made by the government of providing Rs 20 million financial aid to the mountaineering team of UCPN (Maoist) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal´s son Prakash for summiting Mount Everest as “Trip for peace and constitution in the country”, the ‘Lumbini-Sagarmatha Peace Mission 2012’ decided not to accept the aid.

Organizing a press conference at UCPN (Maoist) headquarters at Perisdanda, Kathmandu, the mission has made such announcement and coordinator of the team Krishna KC said that the issue was unnecessarily politicized. He also urged the government to provide the amount to the conflict victims.

In the conference, Prakash Dahal said that the expedition will not be stopped due to the criticism, they will not stop peace mission but they will raise fund from people.

Meanwhile, the NSU supporters have collected Rs 350 as donation for Dahal’s Son in a symbolic protest against the Cabinet approval to provide money from the state coffers.  NSU Vice President Nainsingha Mahar said they have started collecting donations from students and will give Rs 10 million in donation to them.

Movie review – Chapali Height

Note: Pre-release review of Chapali Height covers general information and other details.

With a lot of controversies and publicity from sexually aggressive posters and promos, Chapali Height is released all over major theaters in Nepal. The third directorial venture of Dipendra K Khanal and second movie produced by Arjun Kumar, Chapali Height, has a story of sex for adult audience. Hence, it has received an Adult certificate from the censor board of Nepal.

Story:

Chapali Height is a story of Amir (Amir Gautam) , Bineeta (Binita Baral) and Raj (Raj Ghimire). Amir and Bineeta come from Pokhara to live in Raj’s house at Chapali Height where he is living alone. After spending some time there, relationship between Amir and Bineeta becomes sour and an accident commences the main story of the movie. Its better to Keep the details of the accident, and the suspense that follows, a secret so that your movie experience is not ruined when you watch the movie in theatre.

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24-hr ultimatum given to withdrew govt’s decision of Rs. 20 m financial aid

The budget speech in 2011 shows the budget deficit (difference between total expenditure and total income) was Rs 67.07 billion which was expected to be covered by Rs 29.65 billion foreign loan and Rs 37.41 billion domestic borrowing. The government needs to cover the budget deficit by borrowing such billions of money, but on Friday, the government had decided to provide Rs. 20 million as financial assistance to the UCPN (Maoist) team including Prakash Dahal, the son of UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal to climb the Mount Everest.

This financial aid has drawn widespread criticism from different quarters.

Organizing a press conference in the capital, leaders of the CPN-UML sister organizations accused the government of squandering state money to fulfill junior Dahal’s “personal ambition”.

CPN-UML youth wing Youth Association Nepal (YAN) has given 24-hour ultimatum to the government to take back its decision. YAN leaders accused the authorities for trying to create another Paras Shah in Dahal’s son, Prakash.

Likewise, Nepali Congress sister wing Nepal Students Union (NSU) has also condemned Friday’s decision and NSU Coordinator Ranjit Karna accused the government of misusing the state money to appease leaders in the party. NSU has staged demonstration against the decision in front of Tri Chandra Campus in the Capital afternoon.

Besides NC and UML, Maoist sister organization has also criticized the government’s decision. (Photo credit: Kantipur)

Top 3 leaders assure of timely constitution

Only about 71 days remaining to come Jestha 14, the extended deadline given to Constituent Assembly (CA) for promulgation of new constitution.

This was the fourth extension but still prominent leaders of the three major parties – UCPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress and CPN-UML – on Friday reiterated again their commitment towards concluding the peace and constitution-making processes within specified time and then draft new constitution within the stipulated time.

According to RSS report, Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal claimed that the peace process would reach to an end within the next two weeks while addressing the three-day national conference of lawyers that began in the Capital from today. He promised to settle the contentious issues of the constitution writing through consensus.

The Maoist Chairman said the Congress and the UML are in the ‘misconception’ that the constitution could not be drafted before the completion of the peace process and urged them to come out from it.

Similarly, in the same conference, NC President Sushil Koirala accused the Maoists of not becoming serious towards the peace and constitution writing. Koirala emphasized that his party believes necessity of the conclusion of the peace process to draft the new constitution and claimed the peace process could not take a momentum due to Maoists’ ‘greed’ for arms.

Likewise, UML Chairman Jhalanath Khanal said the task of army integration should be done as per the seven-point deal and Maoist being a big political party in the Parliament, it should play an important role.

Chairman of the Terai Madhesh Democratic Party, Mahantha Thakur, said his party always supports the government to conclude peace process and promulgate new constitution while Chairman of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party Pashupati Shumsher Rana blamed the government for just trying to continue power game only.

Bomb blast in Maoist's rented room in Palpa and in Balaju outside school

A powerful bomb exploded on Thursday afternoon in a three-story building in Kailashnagar, Tansen having Radio Paschimanchal FM station office.

The blast took place in the room of the first floor rented by Maoist district secretary Netra leaving it completely damaged. Walls, doors and windows of four other rooms have also been damaged and the adjoining house of journalist Jagadish Bhattarai and three nearby houses have also suffered damages.

However, no human casualty was reported though there was presence of four Maoist cadres, including district in-charge Basanta Sharma and three FM staffers in the building at the time of explosion.

Sharma was on the same floor, where the explosion occurred, FM staffers on the top floor and other Maoist cadres on the ground floor.

No one has claimed responsibility for the explosion. According to DSP Mira Chaudhary, a detonator wire and bullets were recovered from the incident site and a special force has been called from Butwal for investigation.

Similarly, on the same day, a socket bomb went off outside Pragati Higher Secondary Boarding School at Balaju, Kathmandu at 8:25pm.

According to police, the explosion smashed three window panes of the school but no one was hurt in the incident.

It is learnt that Rs 1 crore has been demanded with the school before the blast occurred. According to police, an investigation has been started.

MaHa Comedy – Left Right Left

MaHa Sanchar presents
Comedy serial – Left Right Left
Starring – Madan Krishna Shrestha, Hari Bansha Acharya , Shivahari Poudel etc.
Concept / Direction – MaHa
Writer – Pradeep Bhattarai
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Action against Minister Magar demanded

In the meeting of State Affairs Committee (SAC) of the Legislature Parliament on Tuesday, its’ members demanded action against Minister for Tourism, Lokendra Bista Magar for ‘denting’ the country’s prestige, according to RSS reports.

They said, “Travelling abroad without a visa by Magar, who is also the coordinator of the Tribhuvan International Airport Security Committee, is a serious and shameful incident”.

Magar was detained for about four hours by immigration authorities at the Abu Dhabi airport on March 5. To acquire information regarding that day’s incident, SAC invited the Secretary at the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Deputy Superintendent of Police on duty at airport and the Chief of the Immigration Office at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), while the government has already constituted a committee to investigate on this matter.

During the meeting, mistakes from the immigration officials end at the TIA was also discussed and a majority of the committee members urged immigration authorities to adopt measures and ensure that similar embarrassing incidents do not happen again.

In the meeting, the Home Ministry officials had admitted that there had been some mistakes by the immigration officials at the TIA in the last minute rush as the minister arrived late and could miss his flight.