Rapti Music Award 2070 was held in Rastriya Shabha Griha, Kathmandu to award the best Nepali music artists. Out of the nominations for the music video models, Jharana Thapa and Gajit Bista have been successful in winning the awards.
In film music, the musician of ‘Mero Jiwan Sathi’, Arjun Pokharel was awarded the best musician. Dayaram Pandey was awarded the best lyricist in movies. Background singer awards were awarded to Durga Praiyar and Sworoop Raj Acharya for their songs in ‘Maya’s Bar’.
After marrying and living together with Raju Lama for almost three years, Pooja Chand made it ‘official’ in a similar ceremony on February 22, 2014.
In May of 2011, we wrote about their marriage. After that, they had started living together in Baltimore, US. At that time, they had promised to perform a formal marriage ceremony within the next three months. It seems, the three months extended to three years until they performed the rituals.
Actress Rejina Upreti got married to Suraj Pokharel in a formal event held in Kathmandu on Saturday February 22. Suraj and Rejina had recently arrived from UK to get married in Nepal. After the marriage they are going back to live in London. If things go as planned, Rejina won’t be seen in any new Nepali movies.
Actress Rejina Upreti is getting married to her long time boyfriend Suraj Pokharel on February 22 in Kathmandu.
It has been some time since the relationship between UK resident boyfriend of Rejina Upreti, Suraj Pokharel. Last year, they were supposed to get married while Rejina was in UK to show her movie ‘Bardaan’ but, she returned back to Nepal without getting married.
Now, Rejina has confirmed the marriage of the two by distributing the marriage invitation card. After two weeks of the marriage Rejina and Suraj will return back to London. After getting married Rejina is expected to stop acting and start a beauty parlor business.
Actress Sushma Karki celebrates her birthday on the Valentine Day, February 14. This year, she celebrated her birthday in the restaurant business she has recently started in Thamel, Kathmandu.
Sushma Karki is not doing any new movies and she is waiting for the movie of a good banner and good story. Sushma says, she couldn’t raise because of working in the movies ‘with producer as the lead actor’. It has only been a few months since Sushma started the restaurant in Thamel.
Once again, Rajesh Hamal marriage has been delayed. In a latest report, Rajesh told that his marriage is postponed for now. A while ago, Rajesh had told that the marriage will be held in February – March of 2014 (watch the attached video).
Initially, Rajesh had wanted to get married in 2010. Due to various reasons, the marriage had been delayed multiple times. Last year, Rajesh had told that he will not delay more than the winter. But, when his family member couldn’t gather in Kathmandu in the Feb/March schedule, he has to delay the marriage again.
At the time when the love festival – Valentine Day is nearing, singer Anil Thapa offered his love proposal to actress Rekha Thapa. The incident happened during the Star FM Music Award program in which singer Anil Singh was singing his popular song ‘I Love you … ‘
While singing the song, Anil went to the seat Rekha was sitting and led her to the stage. On stage, Anil went on his knees and proposed while singing. Rekha found it funny and laughed at all the time. In his facebook message Anil Singh wrote, "It is an honor and privilege to share stage along with superstar Rekha Thapa."
Shilpee theater group is inaugurating Gothale Theater, a theater named after the well known play writer Gobinda Bahadur Malla ‘Gothale’ in March. To inaugurate the theater, the group is organizing a ply titled ‘Coma’. The play told to be a political sex is designed by Yubaraj Ghimire and script by Kumar Nagarkoti. The play will start on March 1 (Falgun 17) and will run throughout the month at 5:30 PM.
An event held in the USA turned sour when some of the viewers got drunk and out of control. At the end of the program, some viewers were drunk the security personals couldn’t control them and had to call police to control the situation.
Nepali artists living in Baltimore area had organized the cultural night to celebrate the festival of love, Valentine Day. The event named Valentine Night featured singers Pabita Praiyar and Dinesh Bhandari. Other artists include Prem Raja Mahat, Sanjeep Pradhan, Sarishma Amatya, actor Ramesh Upreti, Bijaya Shrestha etc.
Based on one of the most successful historical novel by Diamond Shumsher Rana, ‘Seto Bagh’, Nir Shah is planning to make a movie and a television serial. On the occasion of Shree Panchami, Nir Shah organized a program to announce the movie and the megha-serial. The shooting of the serial is expected to start in a couple of weeks.
The television serial will be spanned in 91 parts and the movie will be of length 2.5 hours. The shooting of both the serial and the movie will start at the same time. In the program Nir Shah told that he will make the serial and the movie the photocopy of the novel. In the movie, he will also present the last 30 days of the Rana prime minister Jung Bahadur Rana.
It has been a year since the marriage of actress Saranga Shrestha to Ramesh Karki. They got married on February 1, 2013. In the mean time, Saranga gave birth to a daughter in September of 2013.
On the occasion of the anniversary, Saranga said, "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
The actor popularly known as Takme Budho, Wilson Bikram Rai, celebrated his 26th birthday in Pokhara on January 28, 2014. The actor currently shooting for ‘Humjayega’, cut a cake in celebrated with the film unit and journalists.
In his birthday, Wilson gifted shoes to the backstage artists of the movie he is working in. He remembered the day he used to work backstage and the hardships he had faced at that time. 40 pairs of shoes he distributed in the event were sponsored by the company he is brand ambassador is – Black Horse Shoes.
In the film award ceremony held in Malaysia, actor Aryan Sigdel won the best actor award from the movie ‘Mero Love Story’. In actress category, the best actress award was awarded to Richa Sharma from the same movie. The best movie award and the best director award was awarded to ‘Kathmandu’ and it’s director Aakash Adhikari respectively.
Actor Nir Shah was honored by ‘Abhinaya Shiromani’ award in the event.
While other artists are participating in NEFTA Film Awards in Malaysia, actors including Jiwan Luitel, Jogindar Sharma, actress Priyanka Karki, Sanchita Luitel and singers Sugam Pokharel and Muna Thapa Magar are conducting a cultural program in a separate event. The Ncell sponsored event is organized to promote the Ncell SIM being offered to Nepali living in the country.
This is probably the first time actress Sanchita Luitel has participated after she gave birth to a son and a daughter. Sanchita has gained a lot of weight after childbirth and is working hard to slim down.
Photo credit – Priyanka Karki
Nepali film related personalities have arrived to participate in one of the biggest Nepali film event in it’s 50-years-old history. The artists participating in the event are near 100 in number including most of the well known actors and technicians. NEFTA film award is going to be held on January 31, 2014.
Photo credit – Karishma Manandhar
The participants of NEFTA film award have already reached Malaysia. Some of the well known actors in the ceremony include Karishma Manandhar, Jharana Thapa, Namrata Shreshta, Saujanya Subba, Neeta Dhungana, Benisha Hamal, Richa Sharma, Harshika Shrestha, Pooja Sharma, Aryan Sigdel, Saugat Malla, Samyam Puri, Gajit Bista, Sraj Garach, Nir Shah, Ujjwal Ghimire, Dinesh DC, Aakash Adhikari, Suraj Subba, Suresh Adhikari, Rajesh Payal Rai, Nischal Basnet, Sudarsan Thapa, Dinesh Raut, and Gobind Rai. Similarly actors Rajesh Hamal, Keki Adhikari, Sunil Thapa, Niruta Singh and others had also arrived in Malaysia.
