Movie Review – Apabad

Also visitPre-release review of ‘Apabad’.

One of the most awaited Nepali movies of this season, ‘Apabad’ was finally got released in Nepal on Friday, June 15, 2012. After the successful releases abroad, the directorial debut of Subash Koirala was finally released inside Nepal. The movie features Raj Ballav Koirala and Nisha Adhikari in a lead roles.

Story

Apabad is a story of Suyog who dreams to be a writer of a novel. Being a student of business, his father however wants him to start a job in a bank and start making good sum of money. One of his best friend and one-sided love, Sunanda, had the similar suggestion to him. But, he his desire to be a writer and making a career as a novel writer prevails and he decided to oppose his father’s dream of making him a banker. Suyog wanted to go to the UK to study but, he later found that the college he enrolled was one of the blacklisted colleges. The overwhelming frustration caused him to try suicide by jumping into a river. After he jumped into the river, he was washed to a bank where there aren’t any people in the nearby vicinity. Away from technology and the crowd, he was left to do whatever he likes. To know, what happen to Suyog, his suicide attempt, and the budding writer within him it is worthwhile to visit the theater and know first-hand.

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Nepali Movie – Guru Chela (1997)

For New Century Pictures and National Studio Nir Shah presents:
Nepali Movie – Guru Chela (1997)
Starring – Shree Krishna Shrestha, Pooja Chand, Raja Ram Poudel, Narayan Tripathi, Jitu Nepal, Basundhara Bhusal, Rabi Shah, Anju Ranjit etc.
Story/Dialogue/Script/lyrics – Surendra Rana,
Director – Shyam Rai

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Nepali movie – Kanyadaan

Nepali Movie – Kanyadaan
StarringBhuwan KC, Gauri Malla, Rabi Shah, Subhadra Adhikari, Gopal Raj Mainali, Basundhara Bhusal, Laxmi Giri, Muralidhar etc.
DirectorPrakash Thapa

This is the original ‘Kanyadaan’. There is another Nepali movie by the same name – Kanyadaan (2011), released in 2011.

This is a film about child marriage in Nepal presented by Samjhana Films.
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Nepali Movie – Basanti

Nepali Movie – Basanti
Starring – Karishma Manandhar, Rajesh Hamal, Gauri Malla, Ashok Sharma etc.
Director – Nir Shah

A presentation fo New Century Pictures, Nepali movie ‘Basanti’ is based on Diamond Shumser Rana’s novel “Basanti”. The movie features top actors in Nepali film industry. The director, Nir Shah, himself had produced this movie. The actor Rajesh Hamal has told that ‘Basanti’ is one of his favorite movies. The movie is set in an ancient time – featuring the high class lifestyle of Rana people. This is one of the few movies that were made on the story of a popular book and became successful as a movie too. Encouraged by the success of this movie, Nir Shah had recently produced a movie based on another novel of Diamond Shumser, ‘Seto Bagh’. Despite of huge publicity and awaiting, the new movie however failed to impress the viewers.
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