Sanjiv Pradhan’s Nepali movie Ahankar under the banner of Dream Merchant Entertainment Pvt. Ltd was completed in 2007. But, due to the objection of censor board it was only finally released in the August of 2009. The movie features Sushil Chhetri, Dhruba Koirala, Richa Ghimire, Prerana Sharma, and Subhash Gajurel in leading role.
The movie was awarded Best Story and Jury award in the NEFTA Film Awards of 2065.
The movie was banned by the Nepal Film Central Committee to show it in theaters without censoring some of the scenes, and dialogues, saying it can provoke communal violence in the country.
The film shows attack by hill people on Madhesis, and the attack on the hill people by the Madhesis, rape of one community by another, satires, abuses and communal fighting. The excessive violence featuring dead people, weapons, blood pool and communality level violence can harm the centuries-old communal harmony in Nepal
