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Jessica Alba to wannabe plastic surgery look-alike – don't do it

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A woman in China wanted to do a plastic surgery to look like Jessica Alba and Alba responded with a positive message, after a month.

I am wondering if it has anything to do with the upcoming romantic comedy movie ‘Valentine’s Day’, featuring Jessica Alba, and arriving in theaters on Feb. 12.

Last month, Xiaoqing, the 21 year-old Chinese student, told a newspaper in Beijing about her plan to undergo a surgical transformation to look like Jessica Alba. She told that her ex-boyfriend was a huge fan of Jessica Alba’s films and wanted his girlfriend to look like Alba. She wants to win back her Jessica Alba obsessed boyfriend by converting herself to Jessica Alba look-alike.
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First Nepali actress in Hollywood – Sweta Lamichhane

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Sweta Lamichane is the first Nepali woman to join the US Marines and probably the first Nepali actress in Hollywood. She sure is doing great in the US and making us proud. Her IMDB page has her bio-data and her acting career details. We wish her all the best in her desire to win an Oscar.

News about her is spreading like fire in Nepali news sites (almost all of them copied from Kantipur). It started with her coverage in Kantipur newspaper. Sweta announced in her facebook page:

Sweta Lamichhane I will be featured in the Kathmandu Post on either Friday the 29th or Saturday the 30th. Extra Extra Read all about it! Thank You Sajag Rana & Keshav Koirala!

It was published on 30th of January 2010:

Her achievements so far include leading roles in Destiny, a New York Film Academy production and in the short film Shoot ‘em Up, which will be pitched with Disney Channel. She has featured in MTV’s Freedom Writers and has also worked in TV shows like ER, Greek, and Glee.

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Children of God – Documentary

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  • Winner – Best Documentary – Jeonju 2009 International Film Festival
  • Winner – Best Documentary – Japan, Korea, China Producers Forum
  • Official Selection – 2009 Hot Docs International Film Festival, Canada

Children of God explores the life of the children who live beside the Baghmati River in Nepal. The children rob the corpses for food and dive into the river to grab coins used as funeral offerings by the mourners.

The film exposes the social conditions of the suppressed Nepalese people through the plight of their children, where reverence for the old and dead far outweighs the care for the young and living. Experiencing their innocence and their hardship through songs, stories and heartbreaking living conditions, exposes the contradiction of the material world that rests upon perhaps the most spiritual culture on earth.

Children of God will remind you of scenes from Slumdog Millionaire and is reminiscent of Charcoal People released by Vanguard Cinema.

Single part movie
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Condolence to Actress Mahima Pokharel

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Update on May 17, 2015 – Mahima (Laxmi Pokharel’s) debut movie – Watch ‘Jungalee Babu’ here.

Actress Mahima (Laxmi) Pokharel has died on a motorbike accident while returning from a movie shooting at Kabhre, East of Kathmandu. Actress Pokharel was riding back to Kathmandu with actor Dinesh Khadka when a cargo truck dashed their motorcycle from behind on BP Highway.

Pokharel died at the scene and Khadka is admitted in Dhulikhel hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. They were acting in a movie named “Adhikar”.

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Miss Mangol in March 20, 2010

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To help bringing out the talents in the young ladies of ethnic communities in Nepal, Miss Mangol will be held on March 20, 2010.

The audition round will start on 13th of February. Action International, the organizer, has called 16 – 25 years old unmarried ladies from Mangol communities to participate in the event.

After sucessful organization of the first Miss Mangol last year, this is the second time the beauty contest is being held in Kathmandu. The first Miss Mangol, Shristi Rajkarnikar, was present at the announcement ceremony held in Kathmandu.

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Two Grammies for AR Rahman

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“This is insane, God is great again.”

That is what AR Rahman said after receiving his second Grammy Award at Los Angeles.  The 44-year-old Indian musician pocketed the Best Compilation Soundtrack and the Best Motion Picture Song at the 2010 Grammy Awards for scoring the tunes of Slumdog Millionaire.

Before that, Rahaman had won the Best Original Music Score and Best Original Song at the Academy Awards, Best Original Score at the Golden Globe Awards, Anthony Asquith Award for Best Film Music at BAFTA for his musical contribution for the movie.

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Namrata Shrestha’s latest interview

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Namrata Shrestha, one of the top model/actress, told that she is currently preparing herself to act on a movie based on a drug addict. She was talking to a journalist of nepalisite.com in her latest interview (video attached below).

The interview probably is the first such public appearance of Namrata after the release of a sex scandal video in September 2009. The scandal however wasn’t mentioned in the interview.

Namrata has proven her acting talent in the movies Sano Sansar and Mero Euta Saathi Chha. Many of the film industry personnel and the film viewers do not want to loose such a talented actress because of a stupid video that was released accidently. The interview seems to be the first step towards the re-establishment of Namrata’s acting career. Previously, she was also rumored to host the KTV film award show, but she didn’t showed up in the event.

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Khyal Khyalaima – Nepali Movie

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Rajshree Film Production’s Raju Shah Presents
Nepali film – Khyal Khyalaima
Cast :Sushil Chhetri, Bipana Thapa, Dilip Rayamajhi, Sushila Rayamajhi, Sunil Thapa, Rama Thapaliya etc.
Direction – Kishor Dhakal

The movie featuring Sushil Chhetri and Bipana Thapa in leading role also features another superstar, Dilip Rayamajhi. The movie directed by Kishor Dhakal was a presentation of Rajshree Films Production. Raju Shah is named the presentator of the movie.

The movie is not available now. Please visit this page for other latest Nepali movies.

Miss India Worldwide Nepal in February

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These days there are numerous beauty contest being held in Nepal and one more contest is going to be held in February.

If you are a woman of Indian origin, resident in Nepal and aged between 18 and 27 years; here is your chance to participate in Miss India Worldwide beauty contest. If you are eligible, you need to hurry up and send your application by February 4, 2010. The event will be held on 27th of February.

The call for contestant features 2008 title holder – Miss India Worldwide 2008, Shagun Sarabhai.

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Mousam, introduction of a Nepali Movie

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Watch Mausam here.

Nepali film ‘Mousam’ is a hit movie featuring Rajesh Hamal, Aryan Sigdel, Ranjana Sharma, Ganesh Upreti, Sharmila Malla etc. The story of the movie is written by the director Shyam Bhattarai.

Shyam’s wife of that time, Ranjana Sharma is also one of the actress in the movie.Ranjana has left Shyam to go and live in the USA. According to reports, Ranjana might have to go back to Nepal as her Green Card application hasbeen rejected by the US government.

The movie is updated in a separate page.

UN Panel regrets estimates on melting of Himalayan glaciers

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An international scientific panel overseen by the United Nations had estimated the glaciers in the Himalayas to disappear by 2035. The estimate was included in a 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The group has now expressed “regret” (IPPC statement in PDF) for publishing an unsupported estimate of the speed at which Himalayan glaciers were melting.

It is surprising that none of the 2,500 scientists who contributed to its 2007 report spotted the error that appeared in a sentence on page 493.

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Manisha Koirala to act in a Nepali Movie

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Manisha Koirala started her film career with a Nepali film. That was before she went to Bollywood, where she once was the top actress. Her golden days seems to be over in Bollywood as she doesn’t have much Bollywood movies in hand. She is utilizing her free time by acting in a Nepali movie.

Manisha is going to act in the lead actress role in ‘Dharma’, a movie directed by Dipendra K Khanal (‘The Yug Dekhi Yug Samma’ fame). Apart from Manisha, Rajesh Hamal and Nikhil Upreti will act in lead actor roles. Madhav Acharya, Anu Shah and Shankar Acharya will act in supporting actors role in the movie.

The movie, previously named ‘Rajniti’, was renamed ‘Dharma’ after signing Manisha in the lead role.

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Nepali Movie – Jhupadi Ko Jindagi

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First movie of Bhutani Nepali
Dedicated to the known and unknown martyers of Bhutani protest
Nepali film – Jhupadi Ko Jindagi
Cast :Cast:: Kedar Upreti (UK), Anita Rai, Anish Thapa, Jita Upreti (UK), Ishowr Aanshu Magr, Malati Rai, Kiran Gurung, Santosh Ramdam, Dipak Dhakal, Shyam Giri etc.
Story/Asst. Director – Kedar Upreti
Direction/script – Santosh Ramdam

Part 1
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We are 'Nepali' not 'Nepalese'

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I was thinking of myself – being called ‘Nepalese‘. It sure wasn’t the first time I was called Nepalese, but every time I am called by that adjective I feel a bit odd. The word sounds a bit foreign even if the whole ‘Nepal’ is attached to it.

Let’s fight for ‘Nepali’.

Nepali is our identity, Nepalese isn’t!

Nepali is our own word, Nepalese isn’t.

I called myself “Nepali” my whole life. We sang songs like “Yo Nepali sir uchali …”. There was no ‘Nepalese’ in my early days… not even a trace of it.

Then came this information age. The global village shrunk in size, people came know what Gadhimai mela exactly is, Ram Bahadur Bomjom made international headline, Khagendra Thapa Magar is featured in US magazine, and these are only a few to name. The foreign media (and sometime our own media) portrayed us as Nepalese instead of Nepali. I believe, we are Nepali and there is no word called ‘Nepalese’ in our dictionary.

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