It is Magh, one of the coldest months in the year. While everybody was wrapped up in clothes, actress Barsha Siwakoti was wearing nothing much to cover up her body in Kathmandu. That was the scene of the announcement of a new movie featuring Barsha in leading role, ‘Rani Mahal’.
Manoj Gajurel’s divorce is an unique case in Nepali entertainment industry. No other celebrity had sustained such a long married life and divorce after two decade. So far, it is apparent that no third person is involved.
The divorce is a puzzle because – Manoj hasn’t talked to media about divorce. He has confirmed it by writing a long statement in Facebook. But, he is yet to appear in video interviews. His ex-wife however has been quite vocal on the case. She has given vague details of the reasons they have separated. But, there is no concrete and decisive factor that had caused the divorce. Watch the following video report to know what is going on in their relationship.
What is the real reason?
Before deciding on the real reason – some facts need to be analyzed.
22 years of marriage.
It was a love marriage. Manoj Gajurel did some bluff calls to Mina for a couple of months before they finally met.
20 years old son and 13 years old daughter.
Manoj was 22 years old and Mina was 19 years old when they got married.
Manoj is inclined towards CPN UML (Communist) and Meena is inclined towards Nepali Congress. Manoj is still active politically, Meena is not.
Meena is a fashion designer by training.
Meena had started a fashion boutique before. But, she had to close it down earlier. Now, she has decided to start the similar business in partnership with her daughter.
Manoj says
He and Mina come from different background and upbringings.
Meena is an angry woman. He thought it was a mental problem and tried to solve by medication.
Now, they are officially separated and have done so in mutual understandings.
All the property is divided into four parts – among Manoj, Meena, son and daughter.
The daughter stays with the mother and the son stays with the father.
Meena says:
Meena has told a lot of different things in different interviews. Some of them seem important others don’t. I will only summarize some of the statements that might have contributed to the decision they made.
Everybody at her maternal home call her “Menu” but, Manoj never called her by her pet name. (Her expectations were not met.)
Manoj didn’t want Meena to be active. He tried to stop her from being active out of home.
Meena wanted to be free. She wants to be active in politics, she wants to try her singing skills, and she also wants to succeed in business.
Meena get angry fast but, she also calms down after a while. The anger was linked to mental illness and she took medication for two years. Later it was found out that the medication was unnecessary. Meena accuses Manoj of keeping her under unnecessary medication.
Astrologically they don’t match. The astrological signs of Manoj and Meena both is Leo. Meena believes that was one of the reasons they didn’t match.
Based on these facts, I think the real reason of the divorce is the desire of Meena Dhakal to get control of her life. It seems, she has a feeling of being on the shadow of the will known personality in Nepal.
The wife of journalist Rishi Dhamala has completed the shooting of her upcoming movie ‘Anurag’. The shooting of two more songs for the movie are yet to be done. In one of the songs, Aliza has danced with Saroj Adhikari of Cartoonz Crew. The lead dancer and choreographer of the dance group is featured in a song titled ‘Kanchha Dai Gana Bajai Deu Na”. The song is a club dance song. The song is composed by Tara Prakash Limbu, voice of Mamata Gurung and choreography of Bikram Swar.
Lead actor of the movie is Samundra Pandit, a new actor and Aliza is also debuting in the movie as a producer and lead actress.
The film went through a controversy when the actor who was at the press meet decided to leave the movie. The film team had also approached Paul Shah for the role. The actor was reportedly offered a huge sum for the role. But, later Paul refused to do the movie and decided to do another movie for half of the price offered by Aliza.
A press meet was held in Kathmandu to release the trailer of Shweta Khadka’s upcoming movie, ‘Kanchhi’. The movie directed by Akash Adhikari features Shweta with Dayahang Rai in leading roles. The trailer seems interesting because of the comedy and love story aspect. It seems, the movie has a lot of tears to watch for.
Video report:
Tears has been one of the thing that hasn’t left Shweta for a long time now. Let me discuss her comeback in a separate heading:
Shweta Khadka comeback
Actress Shweta Khadka is making comeback in the Nepali film industry in February with her first movie after the death of her husband, actor Shree Krishna Shrestha, in 2014. Shrestha died after a month of their marriage, a day before the release of their movie ‘Kohinoor’. In the movie, Shweta and Shree Krishna were featured in leading roles. After the death of her husband, Shweta went on a long depression and mourning. After much treatment she has recovered and has produced ‘Kanchhi’ under Kaya Films banner. Shree Krishna used to produce movies under Nepa Films banner. Continue reading
The producers and director of hit film of the year, ‘Ma Yesto Geet Gauchhu’, Sudarshan Thapa and Pooja Sharma have announced a new movie. The moive titled ‘Ram Kahani’ has pushed back the production of the sequel of MYGG – ‘Ma Yesto Geet Gauchhu 2’. The movie to be produced jointly by Pooja and Sudarshan is going to the floor on Falgun 1 (February 13).
The director Thapa has told that the movie is being made on a comedy-love-story theme. The lead actor is yet to be finalized. The director of successful love story films like ‘Mero Euta Sathi Chha’, ‘Prem Geet’, Sudarshan Thapa has also written the story of the upcoming movie. A while ago Kedar Ghimire ‘Magne Budha’ was announced to be charging Rs. 10 lakh for his role in the movie – a huge sum of money for a comedy actor. Another comedy actor, Jitu Nepal, will also be paid Rs, 7 lakh for the role. The film will also feature Wilson Bikram Rai (Takkme Budha) and Rabindra Jha. Continue reading
At the time of the release of Anmol KC’s upcoming movie, ‘Kri’ I am reposting the list of full movies of Anmol KC.
This is the collection of all the films of Anmol KC available online. Anmol KC debuted as a lead actor in his first movie ‘Hostel’. But, before he acted in leading roles, he had also made short appearances in a number of movies as a child artist and he had also appeared in ‘Sathi Ma Timro’. The fifth movie of Anmol KC ‘Kri’ shooting has completed recently and is scheduled to release at the time of Valentine Day of 2018.
Let’s start with the movies he was featured in leading roles.
Gajalu (2016)
More information about ‘Gajalu’ is written in the xNepali movie page. The movie is the debut movie of Miss Nepal 2012, Shristi Shrestha. It is the fourth movie of Anmol KC in leading role, all of which were successful. Other actors in the movie are Salon Basnet, Gaurav Pahadi, Menuka Pradhan, Gauri Malla, Bishow Basnet and Krishna Malla.
After the success of ‘Hostel’ and ‘Jerryy’; ‘Gajalu’ marks the hat trick of successful movies of Hem Raj BC. All these movies featured Anmol KC in leading roles. (Watch them below)
Two new movies are released in theatre this week, Nikhil Upreti’s “Pinjada Back Again and Saugat Malla’s ‘Lalpurja’.
About ‘Pinjada Back Again’
Nikhil Upreti debuted as an actor in ‘Pinjada’. A sequel of the super hit movie, ‘Pinjada Back Again’ was released this week featuring new cast and crews except for Nikhil. In the original movie, Nikhil had jumped from the top of 7th floor of Kantipur publication building. The stunt had created a huge media coverage and had also established him as an action star of Nepali film industry. Continue reading
Nepali Movie – Escape Starring – Pradeep Khadka, Reem Biswokarma etc. Director – Ananta Ghimire
About Escape
The movie made on the story of a person who has overcome the indulgence of drugs and aim to change the social equation. The movie featuring Pradeep Khadka and Reema Bishowkarma is directed by Ananta Ghimire. The movie was released in February of 2015 with three other movies. The movie couldn’t impress the viewers at that time. (Release news)
The movie presented by Pradeep Media is a film by Anandta Ghimire. The story and the script is written by the actor Pradeep Khadka, the film is produced by Kamal Shrestha. The movie is an action & adventure with horror aspect too.
The love story between the comedy actor Madan Krishna Shrestha and his wife Yesoda Subedi is very interesting. That is because, inter-caste marriages was a taboo in that time. The love affair between a brahmin girl, Yesoda and a Newar boy, Madan Krishna was a no-starter. But, they decided get married and moved to a rented room in New Road. That was in 1974.
It was the Day Of Indra Jatra of 1974, Madan Krishna and Yesoda decided to leave their parental home and get married. Madan Krishna borrowed the marriage suit from his friends and they went to Suryabinayak Temple to get married. After a private and hurried marriage ceremony, they rented a room in New Road for Rs. 60 a month to live. Although none of the family members helped them in marriage, Madan Krishna’s friends helped them a lot.
According to a report, large number of adolescent girls are coerced into sex to earn their livelihood in Kathmandu. Although these teenager girls, aged between 14 to 18 years, are exploited the concerned authorities in Kathmandu don’t care. This report is based on a report by Laxmi Basnet for Centre for Investigative Journalism-Nepal.
Basnet has found adolescent and teenage girls who were lured to Kathmandu for better livelihood and jobs end up being sex workers. Some of these girls are forced by their masters, some without their choice or knowledge. They work in tea shops, restaurants, guest houses, night clubs, and dance bars. After being coerced into prostitution, some of these young girls get pregnant leading to a lifelong trauma. Here are the stories of some of the girls: Continue reading
The Nirmali of ‘Meri Bassai’ comedy serial, Niru Khadka, wrote a status in Facebook. The translation of the status reads – “Friends, my family is forcing me to leave my field. But, I can’t leave it. Yesterday, my husband slapped me. My eardrum has broken. What shall I do? Is it better to divorce or quit working as an actress? I need your suggestion.”
Niru, has already deleted the status now but, there is another status in it’s place, that says – she can’t take it anymore.
Niru Khadka Husband
Here are some facts of Niru’s family:
Niru Khadka’s husband is Narottam Gautam.
Narottam and Niru got married in early 2011.
Niru gave birth to a daughter in December of that year, 2011.
Actor Anmol KC has become the heartthrob of young Nepali movie crowd today. Having debuted in teenage drama ‘Hostel’ in 2013, the young actor aspires to make it big in the Nepali film industry. So far, four movies of the actor have released. It is a record in itself as all of them had been box office success.
This list of five things, that most people don’t know about him, were first published in English daily in 2014. As, the original post is already deleted, I am sharing this for record at the time his fifth movie is about to release in February.
HE LOVES INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
Techno and house music are Anmol’s favorites. He doesn’t like listening to songs. “If a music piece has lyrics, I get bored and lose concentration. But if it’s an instrumental piece, I enjoy it to the fullest,†he reveals. Continue reading
Today is Prithivi Jayanti, Ekata Diwas. Prithivi Narayan Shah is credited for the unification of Nepal at the time when the country was divided into smaller states. There are three types of people who:
Support Prithivi Narayan and consider him a great person
Are indifferent of Prithivi and are neutral
Against Prithivi Narayan
Those who support believe it was Prithivi who saved Nepal from going under the British rule. He created an identity of Nepal and Nepali people.
Others don’t care because, Prithivi happened to be one of the stronger kings who could win other states. Other kings were also trying to do the same but they failed. It was Prithivi’s job to extend the boundary of his kingdom at that time. They believe he was doing his job and nothing more or less.
The third category people are against Prithivi because he killed a lot of people to win other states. His attack to Kathmandu valley is believed to be particularly brutal. He installed new language and system in the valley. The Newar culture and language became sub-standard to Nepali language.
All three types of people are right to some extent. I don’t want to go in details on who is more right.
I want to discuss – what is the real face of Prithivi. A video report first:
Nepali Movie – Raaj Starring – Shiva Shrestha, Biraj Bhatt, Rejina Upreti, Jayakishan Basnet, Kushal Thapa, Rabindra Khadka, Sunil Thapa, Srijana Basnet, Maya Pradhan, Srijana Adhikari, Gopal Bhutani, Nisha Sunar (guest), Shovit Basnet (guest) etc. Director – Shovit Basnet
About ‘Raaj’
A presentation of Mata Manakamana Films Production Pvt. Ltd, this movie features the superstars of Nepali movie industry Shiva Shrestha with action star Bira Bhatt. The actresses are Rejina Upreti and Sirjana Subba and Sirjana Adhikari. The movie directed by Shovit Basnet also features Shovit as a guest artist. Singer Nisha Sunar is also a guest artist in the movie.
Nepali Movie – Mandira Starring – Naren Khadka, Bini Pokhreli, Binita Oli Director – Dipesh Sapkota
A presentation of Bhatta & Sons Production by Hari Bhatta, the movie features Naren Khadka with new introductions Bini Pokhareli and Binita Oli. The movie is directed and written by Dipesh Sapkota. The movie features not-so well known actors and background artists in the Nepali film industry and it didn’t make any news in the industry. Please watch and comment if you like or dislike the film.