Don’t we have actresses in Nepal?

There are a lot of actresses and many models are opting acting as their ultimate career goal. But, the producer of ‘Dasdhunga’, Apil Bista, couldn’t find a single Nepali actress to act in his forthcoming movie ‘Namaste America’. Apil is currently in Mumbai in search of an actress who will look like a foreigner in his movie.

Does that mean we don’t have a pool of variety of actress to choose from? It is a fact, that we depend on a lot of things to foreigners… but, I never thought we would need an Indian actress to act in a Nepali movie. With beauty contests being held every now and then, there should actually be a lot of talented and versatile actress willing to start acting as their career.

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A Nepali minister who was an Indian national

This is an old issue and I am not sure what happened afterwards. Does anybody know what the Supreme Court has ruled on the case?

It was UML’s minister for Local Development, Ram Chandra Jha, who was accused of being an Indian Citizen. The Nepali citizen certificate was found to be fake (as it was issued on Saturday, a government holiday).

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Reports say that Mr. Jha is in possession of the Indian Residency Permit from Harlakhi area of Madhubani District, State of Bihar, India, issued on July 12, 2008, House Number 143. According to
the residency permit, Mr. Jha is an Indian national and his father Pulkit Jha too obviously is an Indian national.

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Can Krisha Chaulagai’s Love affair sell Kasam Hajurko?

A movie named ‘Kasam Hajurko’ is going to be released all over Nepal soon.   I am not very much sure, but the producer, Krisha Chaulagai, of Kasam Hajurko also seems to follow another producer and actress, Rekha’s style of marketing. Like Rekha Thapa’s latest release, Hifajat, Krisha is releasing the movie all over Nepal. Rekha’s promotional stunts did actually helped Hifajat’s popularity (although the ‘yellow dress‘ controversy also helped in it).

Krisha says that she is heartbroken as her boyfriend, Ramraja Dahal, has left her before she could complete her movie. Ramraja is not only her boyfriend but also the director of the movie. He did complete the direction but when he didn’t show up for the editing and other after-shooting stuffs. Krisha told that she had to do the post-production stuffs all by herself.

Krisha met Ramraja before they planned to do the movie together and broke-up during the production. Krisha said, ‘Ramraja has broken my heart. But, I believe the viewers will not break my heart.’
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VOW Top 10 College Women awarded

In an event held at the Hotel Radisson on April 18, VOW (Voice of Women) magazine announced the results of the VOW Top 10 College Women Competition.

The Most Outstanding Student award for this year was awarded to Tika Ratna Malla from Chelsea International Academy. The ten winners were selected from the 195 applicants from Kathmandu, Pokhara, Dharan, Biratnagar, Butwal, Bharatpur and Nepalgunj.

The VOW Top 10 College Women for the year 2010 were:

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Miss Tamang 2010 to be held on May 1, 2010

Yet another beauty contest, Miss Tamang 2010 is going to be held on May 1, 2010. This beauty contest is different from the Miss Teen Tamang held in December of 2009. The first Miss Tamang (2006) was Zenisha Moktan, who also won the Miss Nepal title in 2009.

The organizers have selected 15 contestants to compete for the title. In the following photo features Miss Tamang 2010 contestants.

The winner of Miss Tamang title will be awarded with Rs. 25,000 in cash, and the first and second runners-up will be receiving Rs. 15,000 and 7,000 respectively, in addition to other gift hampers.

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Manisha Koirala and Samrat want to have kids after marriage

In a latest interview, Manisha Koirala has told that the marriage date is not fixed yet. She however told that the marriage will occur on the undecided date of the first week of Nepali month Ashad, 2067. She also told that the engagement ceremony will also be held in the month of Ashad.

In a question about how the marriage ceremony will be held, Manisha told that she will marry in Nepali style, wearing Nepali dress and Nepali ornaments.

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New faces of 2066 in Nepali Movies

In the Nepali new year, we are looking at the new faces, in leading roles, in Nepali movies. In the 42 movies released this year, most of the actors were well known actors like Rajesh Hamal, Biraj Bhatt, Nikhil Upreti, Rekha Thapa and so on. There were few new actors with potential to succeed in Nepali movies:

New Actress

  • Saujanya Subba – from TV to big screen with ‘Takkar Dui Mutu ko’  and upcoming movie ‘Aujar’, ‘Swavhiman’, and ‘Jaya Hos’.
  • Sunita Gandarva – from modeling to acting with ‘Yeti ko Khojima’ and upcoming movie ‘Chino’
  • Usha Rajak – from modeling to acting – with ‘Kusume Rumal’
  • Ruby Bhattarai – from modeling to acting – with ‘Kusume Rumal’
  • Sushma Karki – from ‘Mero Euta Saathi Chha’
  • Sneha Sharma – ‘Nishana’ and ‘Maya yo Kasto Maya’
  • Jenisha Khadka – ‘Jungle Queen’
  • Nisha Adhikari – from modeling and TV – ‘Mission Paisa’, ‘Naina Resham’, and upcoming movies like ‘First Love’
  • Aayusha Basnet – from ‘Mission Paisa’
  • Sweta Khadka – ‘Kaha Bhetiyala’, upcoming film ‘Ek fera Hasideu’  

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5 houses damaged in city fire & conflicting reports from the same media house

Five houses caught fire at a densely populated area of Tahanani, nearby Itumbahal in the capital, Kathmandu, on Friday evening (April 16, 2010). Nagariknews, one of the top newspaper in Nepal published the news about the fire. The media house publishes Nagarik (Nepali) and Republica (English) newspapers. The same news in the two newspapers have different news.

Republica says that  the fire broke out from Prem Maharjan’s house but Nagariknews says it was Maharatna Maharjan. Republica says the fire was controlled in 2 hours but Nagarik says it took 4 hours to control the fire. I have posted the screenshot for comparison below.
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Top 10 Nepali movies in 2066

Measure of success of a movie can be different for different people. Some gauge the success on the revenue it brings to the producer and others measure it on the satisfaction it can give to the viewers. It is much easier to quantify the profit than the quality of movie.

Top movies released in 2066, according to the profit they have made are:

  1. Kaha Bhetiyala
  2. Dhoom
  3. Mero Euta Saathi Chha
  4. Nishana
  5. Eku
  6. Batuli
  7. Kaha Chau Kaha
  8. Afno Manche Afnai Hunchha
  9. Dosti *
  10. Hifajat *

In the above list, movies marked with * are recently released and actual statistics can’t be estimated.

‘Kaha Bhetiyala’, first movie of Shri Krishna Shrestha as a producer is considered best movie of the year 2066. Made in Rs. 8 million, the movie has already grossed Rs. 19 million and is expected to do more than a million business in coming days.

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Top Actors in 2066 – Biraj Bhatta acted in most movies

About one third of the movies released this year featured Biraj Bhatta. Out of 35 movies 14 had Biraj as actor. Rajesh Hamal came second with 9 movies in his credits. Nikhil Upreti did 8 movies. 

  1. Biraj Bhatta – 14 moives
  2. Rajesh Hamal – 9 movies
  3. Nikhil Upreti  – 8 movies
  4. Rajballav Koirala – 4 movies
  5. Ramit Dhungana – 4 movies
  6. Aryan Sigdel – 2 movies

Arjun Karki, Suman Singh, and Dilip Rayamajhi were average in the year. Shri Krishna Shrestha acted in only one, but most successful movie of the year, ‘Kaha Bhetiyala’ and is actually the best actor of the year.

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Movies released in 2066 BS

The Nepali movie industry saw a bit of a relief as compared to the previous years in 2066 BS. The number of movies being produced was increased and those released in the year have done satisfactory business. Most of the movies did average business. Some of the high expected movies like ‘Kusume Rumal 2′ couldn’t do good business and some unexpected movies like ‘Eku’ took the stage and did better than average business in the year 2066.

Although there was quantitive increase in moves, qualitive increase couldn’t be seen with a few exception. Most of the movies had stories copied from some foreign movies. The extreme of which could be seen in the copy-cat posters.

Movies screened in 2066

According to the statistics of Nepal Cinema Development authority, the Censor Board has censored 42 Nepali movies including 29 celluloid and 13 digital ones. But, among those 42 movies only 27 have made it to the theater. Other 15 are in queue to get their chance to get slot in the cinema hall and will probably be screened in 2067.

The 27 movies released in 2066 are:

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Top actresses of the year 2066, Rekha Thapa topped the list

Rekha Thapa has once again topped the list of most successful actress in Nepali cinema. In the past year she acted in 7 films, in which, three were successful, two were good enough, and two unsuccessful.

Jharana Thapa’s ‘Kaha Chau Kaha’ was the only successful film in the six movies she acted in.

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Palpalma – Movie trailer

The Nepali movie “Palpalma” was being screened in Hong Kong but it is not known when it will come to the theaters in Nepal. The Censor Board of Nepal has decided that the movie is adult in nature and kids under 16 years of age are not permitted to watch it. Debut movie of director Ukesh Dahal and produced by Mr. Harihar Acharya, the movie is told to have a new taste and fresh concept. The movie is even expected to set a new standard in Nepali Movie Industry.

The bed scene photo of the movie has been around before the completion of the movie. The movie was previously said to be coming to the theaters in Kathmandu on the Nepali New Year (Mid-April, 2010) but there is no sign of its release.

‘Palpalma’ is about male sex workers and deals with sexual relationship between people. The bold scenes, never been seen before in a Nepali movie, will surely make it a hot cake among Nepali adults. Main cast in the movie are Ramit Dhungana, Dilip Rayamajhi, Rupa Rana, Sujata Situla, Dilip Gautam, Suman Singh, Bikrant Basnet, Usha, Sashi Khadka, and Asim Rana.

(update – trailer video is not available)

Nepali Movie – Santaan

Nepali film – Santaan
StarringRajesh Hamal,  Niruta Singh, Nikhil Upreti, Uttam Pradhan, Arunima Lamsal, Laxmi Giri, Nir Shah, Sunil Thapa etc.
Director – Raju Parajuli

Nepali movie ‘Santaan’ is a new movie by the same named superhit movie ‘Santan’. Watch the original ‘Santan’ here. Actors Dilip Rayamajhi and Manika Sharma are featured as guest actors. The director, Raju Parajuli, has also written the script and lyrics in the movie.

Full movie in a single part:

upload credit – Hi Tech Entertainment

Hifajat and Hindu sentiment

Hindu organization in Nepal, Vishow Hindu Mahasangh, has asked the Chief District Officer of Kathmandu to stop screening of Rekha Thapa‘s movie ‘Hifajat’ (Letter attached below). In response, the CDO of Kathmandu, Laxmi Prasad Dhakal, has stopped the screening of the movie.

The film maker and other film professionals however have protested the CDO’s action.
They argued that the movie was being screened after receiving the government permission and after being passed by the censor board. By the order of the CDO, the police has removed the posters of the movie and stopped the screening at Puspanjali and Asthanarayan Cinema Halls in Kathmandu.

Our friends at MoviesNepal have rightly said that religion shouldn’t be brought in such a minor issue:

… Making a god on a fashion item doesn’t demand protest… बरु उक्त फिल्मको पोस्टर, जसमा विदेशी पोस्टरको हुबहु नक्कल गरिएको छ, तेस्को बिरोध हुनु पर्छ.

Rekha Thapa has worn a yellow dress with ‘Hare-Ram Hare-Krishna’ scripts in the song ‘Naran Naran …’ and a fight scene. The scenes of dance(03:05) and the fight scenes (00:30) can be seen in the following trailer.
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