Movie Review – VISA GIRL

The per-release review of Visa Girl was posted earlier.

At the time people have discounted Nepali movies as money waster, one of the big corporate houses, Chaudhary Group’s wing CG Entertainment has invested on a Nepali film, ‘Visa Girl’. This debut movie of CG Entertainment is released all over Nepal on Friday October 5, 2012. ‘Visa Girl’ features Richa Sharma, Binay Shrestha, Karma, Saloni Raj Bhandari, Raymon Das Shrestha, Reema Biswokarma in leading roles. The movie is also directed by a new entry, Prachanda Man Shrestha.

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Facebook – Movie Review

The movie produced by actress Jharana Thapa, ‘Facebook’ was released all over Nepal on Firday, September 7. The director, Suraj Subba ‘Nalbo’ has also written the suspense thriller movie.The movie related to the social networking site Facebook features Jharana Thapa, Swatantra Pratap Shah, , Sunil Thapa, and Subash Thapa in lead roles.

Story:
Facebook is a story of a girl named Sanskriti (Jharana Thapa) who falls in love with Yodin (Swatantra Pratap). Yodin, a rich NRI living in Singapore, knew Sanskriti in the social networking site, Facebook. After an online affair, Yodin flew back to Nepal to marry Sanskriti. In Nepal, Yodin’s uncle Harish (Sunil Thapa) sends them to a theatre to watch movie where Yodin was kidnaped by a gang. The police thought Harish was behind the kidnapping of Yodin. I don’t want to ruin your movie watching experience by divulging the secret.
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Nepali Movie – Facebook (pre-release review)

Nepali movie ‘Facebook’ is releasing on  September 7, 2012. The movie directed by Suraj Subba ‘Nalbo’ features Jharana Thapa, Swatantra Pratap Shah, Wilson Bikram Rai, , and Sunil Thapa in leading roles.

The movie features the , cinematography of Sanjaya Lama, fight direction of Roshan Shrestha, music direction of Sunil Bardewa, choreography of Kabiraj Gahatraj, editing of Banish Shah, and the story, direction, script and dialogue of Suraj Subba ‘Nalbo’.

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Movie Review – Full Stop

Pre-release review of Full Stop was posted previously.

Nepali feature film ‘Full Stop’, promoted as a thriller movie, was released all over Nepal on August 31, 2012. The movie received an adult certificate due to some of the thrilling scenes that may not be suitable for the audiences of age below 16 years. ‘Full Stop’ features Binita Baral and Sabin Shrestha in lead role and is directed by Kamal Krishna Poudel.

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Nepali Movie – Full Stop (pre-release review)

Nepali movie ‘Full Stop’ is releasing on  August 31, 2012. The movie directed by Kamal Krishna Poudel features Binita Baral, Sabin Shrestha, Kamal Krishna Poudel and Gajendra Ranjit in leading roles.

The suspense thriller movie features cinematography of Krishna Shrestha, fight direction of Chandra Panta, music direction of Kamal Krishna, choreography of Simon Rai, editing of Mitra Dev Gurung, and the story of Gajendra Ranjit.

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Movie Review – Bindaas

As suspected in the pre-release review of Bindaas, it proved to be another worthless movie expecting to cash on sex and vulgarity.

After creating some hype and buzz in media by signing in Sushma Karki at a much higher price (Sushma got three lakh for the movie) to ‘open up’ and feature in ‘all kinds’ of scenes, "Bindaas" is released all over Nepal on Friday 24, 2012.  Bindaas features Sushma Karki in lead role and other main characters are played by new faces Sushant Karki, Ashok Phuyal and Roshani Ghimire. The movie is produced by Raju KC and is directed by Raju Giri.

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Nepali Movie – Bindaas (pre-release review)

Nepali movie ‘Bindaas’ is releasing on  August 24, 2012. The movie directed by Raju Giri features Sushma Karki, Sushant Karki, Ashok Phuyal, and Roshni Ghimire in leading roles.

The movie features the cinematoraphy of Rajendra Sapkota, fight direction of Roshan Shrestha, music direction of Arjun Pokharel, choreography of Mahesh Godar, editing of Dirgha Khadka, and story / script /dialogue of Bhoj Raj Devkota.

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Movie Review – Maya’s Bar

Coupled with big expectations from extensive advertisements, hype, and big star casts "Maya’s Bar" was released in Kathmandu valley on July 27, 2012. In the theatres out of valley, the movie will be released on this Friday (August 3). The third directorial venture of Dinesh DC, "Maya’s Bar" is produced by Sunil Manadhar and features actors like , Karishma Manandhar, Nisha Adhikari and Gajit Bista in leading roles.

Story:

Maya’s Bar is the story of Maya (Nisha Adhikari) and her family. Maya lives happily with her husband Gajit and a son, Bishal until they face a financial crisis. To cope with the financial problem Gajit joins fight club as a fighter and Maya joins a dance bar as a dancer. They both work for a company of Trilok Rana (played by Rajesh Hamal). But, both Gajit and Maya are not happy with their spouse’s profession. Gajit and Maya would occasionally express their respective dissatisfaction on Gajit’s work as a fighter and Maya’s work as a dancer. I wouldn’t like to ruin your movie viewing experiences by telling the story and problem that leads to the unexpected death of Maya (oops …).

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Nepali Movie – Maya’s Bar (pre-release review)

Nepali movie ‘Maya’s Bar’ is releasing on  July 27, 2012. The movie directed by Dinesh DC features , Gajit Bista, Nisha Adhikari, Karishma Manandhar and Saroj KC in leading roles.

The movie features the cinematography of Purushottam Pradhan, fight direction of N.B. Maharjan, music direction of Suresh Adhikari, and editing of Banish Shah.

Crew Background

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Highway – Big Buzz and the hype

The movie ‘Highway’ had created a big buzz and a hype among Nepali youths before its release. Probably, ‘Highway’ is the first movie successful in creating such a big buzz before it’s release. It sure is critically aclaimed and is the first Nepali movie to be featured in Berlin International Film Festival.

Thanks to publicity and talks, the audience had a huge expectation from the movie. After the public release of the movie, majority of the audience think that the buzz and publicity was over hyped.

Few reasons ‘Highway’ was successful in creating such a big hype are:

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Movie Review – Highway

The most awaited Nepali film which officially screened in the Berlin Film Festival is finally released today. Highway is the first feature movie directed by Deepak Rauniyar and features Saugat Malla, Dayahang Rai, Karma, Reecha Sharma, Asha Magarati, Rabindra Mishra in main roles.

Story: 

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Nepali Movie – Highway (pre-release review)

Nepali movie ‘Highway’ is releasing on July 20, 2012. The movie directed by Deepak Rauniyar features Karma, Saugat Malla, Reecha Sharma, Binaya Shrestha, Eelum, Dayahang Rai, Rajan Khatiwada, Asha Magarati, Shristi Ghimire, Mamata Rai, Sandip Chhetri, Bhumika Shrestha, Keshav Bhattrai and Rabindra Mishra in leading roles.

The movie features cinematography of Apal Singh and Jyoti Keshar Simha, music direction of Richard Horowitz, Vibek, Maddala, editing of Davit Barker, Deepak Rauniyar, Rita Mehaer, story of Deepak Rauniyar, Abinash Bikram Shah, Kedar Sharma, Khagendra Lamichane script of Abinash Bikram Shah and the dialogue of Abinash Bikram Shah.

Crew Background

The strong point of the movie ‘Highway’ is that it contains most of the preferred Nepali actors of the Nepali film industry. Some of the actors in the movie had been very successful and are considered  the gems of the Nepali film industry. Karma, Reecha Sharma and Binaya Shrestha are known by the audience from their last superhit movie ‘First Love’. Another successful movie ‘Loot‘ had featured to actors present in ‘Highway’ – actors Dayahang Rai (Gofle) and Saugat Malla (Hakku Kale).

The director, Deepak Rauniyar, is also a journalist and he had previously directed two short films ‘Pooja’ and ‘Chaukhat’. Both of his short film were appreciated by the audiences. The feature movie ‘Highway’ is his first directorial venture based on his experience of disruption of traffic by regular strikes (Nepal bandha).

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Movie Review – Malati Ko Bhatti

After struggle in fixing the release date, ‘Malati Ko Bhatti’ was finally released in about 56 theatres all over Nepal. ‘Malati Ko Bhatti’ is the debut directorial venture of Ganesh Dev Pandey featuring actors/actresses Rekha Thapa, Jiwan Luitel, Nandita KC and Sunil Thapa in main roles.

Story:

The movie ‘Malati Ko Bhatti’ is the story of Aditya Sharma (Jiwan Luitel) frustrated with his life due to his unsuccessful love-marriage. Aditya’s wife, Sabitri (Nandita K C) is more fascinated towards parties, clubs, casino and gambling rather than her family. Aditya drinks a lot and becomes addicted to alcohol. He met Malati (Rekha Thapa) while visiting a small bar owned by her and known as Malati ko Bhatti. While visiting the Bhatti, Aditya and Malati got attracted towards each other and started a relationship.

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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 – Apabad (pre-release review)

Nepali movie ‘Apabad’ is released on  June 15, 2012. The movie directed by Subash Koirala features Raj Ballav Koirala, Nisha Adhikari, Rabi Giri, and Bijaya Giri in leading roles.

The movie features the cinematoraphy of Sushan Prajapati, music direction of Ujjwal Meghi Gurung, editing of Raju Dhungana, story/script of Subash Koirala, and dialogue of  Subash Koirala, Ujjawal Meghi, Shekhar Gyawali and Upendra Lamichhane.

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