Nepali Movie – Chhadke

Nepali Movie – Chhadke
Starring – Saugat Malla, Namrata Shrestha, Robin Tamang, Arpan Thapa, Dayahang Rai, Sushil Pokharel etc.
Director – NIgam Shrestha

‘Chhadke’ is the presentation of Princess Movies and Ras Tandav.

Our review of ‘Chhadke’ was posted earlier.

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Three new movies releasing this week

Three new movie ‘Rakshya’, ‘Katha’, and ‘Love in China Border’ are going to release in theaters all over Nepal on March 22.

The controversial director Raju Giri‘s ‘Rakshya’ was dragged into controversy after releasing shooting photos of bed scenes and hot posters. Later, the bed scene was removed from the movie and the posters were also redesigned. As a result, the censor board has awarded it with a ‘PG’ certificate – suitable for children on adult supervision. The movie features Rajesh Hamal, Poojana Pradhan, Ashok Phuyal, and Sarika Ghimire in main roles. The story is written by Prakash Dhital, music composed by Arjun Pokharel and cinematography of Rameshowr Karki.

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Nepali Movie – Katha (pre-release review)

Nepali movie ‘Katha’ is releasing in Nepal on March 22, 2013. The movie directed by Prashant Rasaily features Saugat Malla and Usha Rajak in leading roles. The director of photography of ‘Katha’ is Shailendra D Karki.

Crew Background

Katha features Saugat Malla and Usa Rajak in lead role. This is the first movie of Saugat Malla as a solo actor and he will be portraying the role of a lover boy. Usha Rajak, whose last hit movie was ‘Iku – The jungle man’ (First part) only does few selected movies. This movie is considered to an important movie in her career in Nepali movie industry.

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Katha released in Sikkim

Nepali movie ‘Katha’ was released in a theater in Sikkim, India. The movie directed by Prasant Rasaily (‘Acharya’ fame) was mainly shot in Sikkim and was released in the place first for that reason. It will be released in Nepal on March 22.

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Movie Review – Chadke

**You may also want to read the Pre-release review of ‘Chadke’.**

After a very good publicity a equally good response from the promotional matters, ‘Chadke’ was released all over Nepal on 22th February. ‘Chadke’, said to be an environmental thriller movie, is based on youths and the environment of Chitwan area. The movie is the debut movie of director Nigam Shrestha, and he had also assisted ‘Loot‘ as an assistant director. ‘Chadke’ features Namrata Shrestha, Robin Tamang, Arpan Thapa, Dayahang Rai, and Sushil Pokharel in leading roles.

Story

Chitwan is ruled by a multi-ethnic six-member gang named Royal gang. The leader of Royal gang, Chewang Lama, haa political backing and his gang smuggles and sells Chitwan National Park animals to foreigners. The opposing political party supports a small gang of Bindu and offers Rs. 50 lakhs bounty to kill Chewang Lama. In the meantime, Royal gang’s member obstruct the work of a researcher who had come to study about plants and species in the National Park. The movie is all about these the researcher, Bindu, Chewang, and their gangs. I don’t want to kill the excitement of watching the movie by revealing the plot.

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Nepali Movie – Chadke (pre-release review)

Nepali movie ‘Chadke’ is releasing on Friday, February 22, 2013. The movie directed by Nigam Shrestha features Saugat Malla, Namrata Shrestha, Robin Tamang, Arpan Thapa, Dayahang Rai, and Sunil Pokharel in main roles.

The movie features the cinematography of Sanjay Lama and Hari Bahadur Ghale(Lama), music direction of Jason Kunwar, editing of Lokesh Bajracharya and Dirga Khadka, and story/script/dialogue of Nigam Shrestha. ‘Chadke’, a story of gangsters of Chitwan, portrays the life of gangsters of our society. The thriller movie was awarded an adult certificate due to matured contents in its dialogues.

In an interview with xnepali the director Nigam Shrestha told that ‘Chadke is about content, performance and music‘.

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Chhadke got an ‘A’ certificate, releasing on Feb 22

Nepali movie ‘Chhadke’ was awarded an ‘A’ certificate – not suitable for audience younger than 16-years. After the evaluation of the movie, the Censor Board had censored some of the dialogues and awarded the certificate because of vulgar words in the movie.

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Anup Baral to debut film direction in ‘Fitkiri’

Actor and director Anup Baral is debuting in movie direction after directing more than 50 plays. Anup Baral’s first movie ‘Fitkiri’ is scheduled to start in by the end of February.

Anup Baral started acting in theater at the age of 14 and is known as the guru of well known actors like Saugat Malla, Dayahang Rai, and Diya Maskey. Other well known actors who took training from Anup Baral are Raj Ballav Koirala, Usha Rajak, and Sarita Giri.

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Chhadke to release on Feb 22 (official song)

The official song of Nigam Shrestha’s upcoming movie ‘Chhadke’ is released on Saturday. The song titled “Haatti- Bhaalu” is shot on Saugat Malla.

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2013 new releases – Soongava, Dhartiputra, and Afnai Manlai Sodhi Hera

‘Soongava’, ‘Dhartiputra’ and ‘Afnai Manlai Sodhi Hera’ are going to be the first three Nepali movies to be released on the new year 2013.

‘Soongava’ has been on headline from the beginning because of it’s lesbian theme. Subarna Thapa’s ‘Soongava’ features Nisha Adhikari and Diya Maskey in lead role. Saugat Malla, Laxmi Giri and Basundhara Bhusal also have important roles in the movie.Although the movie was successful in being featured in various film festival, there is a high chance that the majority of Nepali movie viewers miss the message.

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4th Digital Film Award held in Kathmandu

A Nepali film award ceremony, 4th Filmykhabar Digital Film Award, organized by Chhaya Chhabi Creation, was held in Kathmandu on December 9, 2012. The best actor and best actress awards were handed over to Saugat Malla (for ‘Loot‘) and Rekha Thapa (for ‘Andaaz‘) respectively. Rekha’s ‘Andaaz’ was declared the best movie this year.

Other winners include Best Director – Ujjwal Ghimire for ‘Andaaz’, Best new actress – Binita Baral for ‘Chapali Height‘, Best New Actor – Samyam Puri for ‘Saayad‘. We will post the full list of winners in a separate post.

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'Uma' an upcoming movie of Tsering Rhiter Sherpa

The director of critically acclaimed ‘Mukundo’ and ‘Karma’, Tsering Rhitar Sherpa, is going to release a new movie based on the story of a female combatant. The film lead by Recha Sharma features well known actors like Saugat Malla, Mithila Sharma, Prawin Khatiwada, Dayahang Rai, Pramod Agrahari, Pushkar Gurung and Suresh Chand.

The story of the m
ovie, co-written by Tsering with Kumar Bhandari, revolves around the life of Uma, a character based on true incident of a brother and a sister and their ideological differences.  After working for almost a year on the script and a workshop with the actors for more than a month, the shooting of ‘Uma’ started in location at Khopasi VDC, Kavre on November 1, 2012.

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First look of 'Chadke' released

The producers of superhit movie ‘Loot‘ Madhav Wagle and Narendra Maharjan have organized a press meet to release the first look of their upcoming movie ‘Chadke’. The promotion video and the posters of the movie was releases in the event.

‘Chadke’ is planned to be released in the first week of February 2013. The story of the movie made on a story of gangster is written and directed by Nigam Shrestha. He told that he has left no stone unturned to make the movie interesting.

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Movie Review – Highway

The most awaited Nepali film which officially screened in the Berlin Film Festival is finally released today. Highway is the first feature movie directed by Deepak Rauniyar and features Saugat Malla, Dayahang Rai, Karma, Reecha Sharma, Asha Magarati, Rabindra Mishra in main roles.

Story: 

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Nepali Movie – Highway (pre-release review)

Nepali movie ‘Highway’ is releasing on July 20, 2012. The movie directed by Deepak Rauniyar features Karma, Saugat Malla, Reecha Sharma, Binaya Shrestha, Eelum, Dayahang Rai, Rajan Khatiwada, Asha Magarati, Shristi Ghimire, Mamata Rai, Sandip Chhetri, Bhumika Shrestha, Keshav Bhattrai and Rabindra Mishra in leading roles.

The movie features cinematography of Apal Singh and Jyoti Keshar Simha, music direction of Richard Horowitz, Vibek, Maddala, editing of Davit Barker, Deepak Rauniyar, Rita Mehaer, story of Deepak Rauniyar, Abinash Bikram Shah, Kedar Sharma, Khagendra Lamichane script of Abinash Bikram Shah and the dialogue of Abinash Bikram Shah.

Crew Background

The strong point of the movie ‘Highway’ is that it contains most of the preferred Nepali actors of the Nepali film industry. Some of the actors in the movie had been very successful and are considered  the gems of the Nepali film industry. Karma, Reecha Sharma and Binaya Shrestha are known by the audience from their last superhit movie ‘First Love’. Another successful movie ‘Loot‘ had featured to actors present in ‘Highway’ – actors Dayahang Rai (Gofle) and Saugat Malla (Hakku Kale).

The director, Deepak Rauniyar, is also a journalist and he had previously directed two short films ‘Pooja’ and ‘Chaukhat’. Both of his short film were appreciated by the audiences. The feature movie ‘Highway’ is his first directorial venture based on his experience of disruption of traffic by regular strikes (Nepal bandha).

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