Bhuwann KC, astrologer added an extra ‘n’ in his name

The investment in Nepali movies is very insecure and nobody knows how the viewers perceive new movies. It becomes scary when the story and the content is not strong enough. In such situations, Nepali film makers go in the refuge of astrologers. 

This time, an established producer and actor in Nepali movie, Bhuwan KC went to an astrologer who told him to rename himself to which the actor gladly agreed and added an extra ‘n’ at the end of his name. This shows how insecure our producers are; they can even change their name to make a movie a success. In Bhuwan’s upcoming movie he will be named Bhuwann KC instead of Bhuwan KC. And, the title of the movie will also have the phrase Bhuwann KC ‘s Sathi Ma Timro in it’s posters and promo materials.

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Harshika Shrestha’s suitcase : the benefit of being an actress

An actress, Harshika Shrestha, lost her suitcase in a car while going to Chobhar for the shooting of a music video. One of the National dailies in Nepal, Nagarik published a detailed news about the loss.

The taxi driver Surya Bahadur Shrestha knew the owner of the suitcase after reading the newspaper. After receiving the suitcase that contained dresses and ornaments worth about Rs. 70,000, Harshika is very happy and grateful by the honesty of the taxi driver.

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Komal Oli to make a movie on her own life

It’s not only the Hot and Spicy role in her upcoming movie, Dubdaba, Komal has high hopes from another movie she is going to make all by herself. The movie to be made on her own story will portray the struggle she did as a single woman.

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Oleanna – a strong ‘split role’ play

A play on the issue of sexually harassing behaviors in schools, colleges and universities, Oleanna, was featured in Moksh Live, Jhamsikhel by One World Theatre in collaboration with Actors’ Studio. The first set of shows were featured on December 2, 3 and 4th and it will again be shown on 9-11 December. Based on the original play of playwright David Mamet, it is directed by Deborah Merola.

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10K ‘Chapali Height’ posters destroyed

After the Binita Baral controversy over the publication some of her photos in various magazine covers, the producer of the movie, Arju Kumar, decided to destroy all the posters designed with the naked photos. About Rs. 250,000 was the cost of design, re-design, and printing of the destroyed posters.

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Binita Baral – Chapali Height photo is no ‘nudity’

UPDATE: Binita Baral organized the press meet. She is ‘happy’ to tell her story and seems ‘happier’ by the amount of media attraction the photo created. In her Facebook she didn’t care to tell what was the real thing she told in the press meet. That means it is not the important. It seems, the press meet was well planned beforehand and they had taken some photos specially for the anticipated press meet – photos showing undergarments. Binita posted this message in Facebook:

The Facebook message says nothing about her concern (because, she isn’t concerned about the real issue). She didn’t even felt the need to clarify in her Facebook profile (because, she doesn’t want to spoil the media attention).

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Binita Baral, the ‘Chapali Heights‘ fame model/actress, has been in and out of controversy since she enter the Nepali movie industry. At first she was kicked out of a movie, without compensation, after she had already signed the deal.

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Tattoo on breast, Sushma following Karishma’s steps?

It is easy to follow what others do as long as talent is not involved. Karishma Manandhar‘s beauty is envied by every other actresses in Nepali movie industry and it is not much surprising if an aspiring actress follows her steps.

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Bhuwan KC daughter marriage – high profile people including ex-king participated

Actor Bhuwan KC had organized a huge party on the occasion of his daughter’s marriage. In the party, high profile gusts were invited including ex-King Gyanendra Shah. Ex-king arrived one hour before the party began and left offering his best wishes to the new couple and having a cup of black coffee.

Participants included speaker of the house Subash Nebwang, Chief of Army Chatra Man Gurung, ex-prime ministers Madhav Kumar Nepal and Surya Bahadur Thapa.

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Nikhil Upreti: a 15 day notice published to pay 3 lakh

Actor Nikhil Upreti (real name Dinesh Upreti) and his sister Laxmi Kharel were summoned by Gorkhapatra Sansthan to pay Rs. 2,93,832.61 by publishing a payment notice with their photos, in Gorkhapatra daily.

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Arunima Lamsal gave birth to a baby girl

Congratulation Arunima Lamsal for being the mother of a daughter.

Although, the delivery date predicted by the doctors was November 26, Arunima felt pain in the abdomen and had to be rushed to the Norvic hospital in Thapathali Kathmandu. At 7:45 PM on Tuesday, November 8, 2011, a healthy baby girl of 2.1 Kg weight was born in a normal delivery.

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Rajesh Hamal – A woman claims to be his wife

UPDATE: It seems it was a false alarm and the woman wanted to get limelight by connecting herself to Rajesh Hamal.  Rajesh Hamal’s assistant Acharya had told that the family members of Bal Kumari had called Hamal to say sorry for the incident. Hamal says that he had never known the woman or anybody in her family. It is likely that Bal Kumari has mental problem. (Bal Kumari’s photo and the original article follows)

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A police Hawaldar, Bal Kumari Adhikari of Jyotinagar, Chitwan has claimed to have married the actor Rajesh Hamal in 2050 BS. The woman has also claimed that Hamal is the father of three of her children.

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Namrata to debut in theater with Oleanna

Actress and model Namrata Shrestha is going to start acting in theater with a debut role in an English play "Oleanna". The play will start from December 2, 2011 under the direction of by Deborah Herola.

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Director Deepak Rayamajhi dies at 58 (Photo Update)

58 year old director of Nepali movie industry, Deepak Rayamajhi, has died of heart failure, yesterday in Gangalal Hospital. He was rushed to hospital after the heart attack, where he died at around 12:30AM. His last ritual was conducted in the morning in Pashupati Aryaghat amongst various personals of Nepali movie industry.

After receiving master’s degree in film direction from Russia, he directed his first movie “Bhagya Rekha” in late 1980s. Some of the movies he had directed include Yug dekhi Yug Samma (Rajesh Hamal‘s first movie), Pryasi, Parai Gjhar and others.

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Arunima expecting a daughter on Nov. 26

The doctor of Arunima Lamsal have estimated the birth date of her first child to be on November 26, 2011 (Mangsir 10). After the fetal ultrasound, to Arunima’s delight, the doctors have also confirmed that her first baby will be a girl.

Talking to an online magazine, Arunima told that she and the family members are so excited that that they have already started calling her the "Young Arunima".

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Dashain Tika of celebrities of Nepali movie industry

Nepali movie crew including the actors and actress were in festive mood in the Dashain. All the shootings were halted for the biggest festival in Nepal. Most of the crew members celebrated with tika and jamara.

Here are some of the highlights of how the film personalities celebrated their Dashain:

Nikhil Upreti and Sanchita Luitel celebrated their first Dashain together with their child as husband and wife.

Rekha Thapa also celebrated her Dashain with her mother.

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