Category: Event

NFDC National Award 2017 winners (watch Award winning movies)

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The 6th NFDC National Film Award was held in Hyatt Hotel, Kathmandu. The best film award was awarded to ‘Chhakka Panja’. The movie was also awarded the best actress, best director and best comedy actor awards. The movie was nominated in 15 categories.

Best Actor award was awarded to ‘Jatra’ actor Bipin Karki. The movie was nominated in 11 categories. Another movie ‘Purano Dunga’ was nominated in 9 categories. The award titles have the names of the well known artists of the past. For example the Best Movie award is titled “Hira Sarbotkrista Chalachitra”.

Bollywood actress, Manisha Koirala, was the chief guest of the award ceremony. In the ceremony the artists of the Nepali movie industry had participated.

Only two of the award winning movies are released online now. Watch the Award winner movies:

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Who are the Miss Nepal 2017 contestants ?

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The official list of the Miss Nepal contestants is yet to be released. I have compiled the list of contestants from unofficial sources.

Unlike previous years, the organizers chose 30 contestants to begin with and then they eliminated 10 contestants as they progress. The final 20 contestants will compete in the finale. I am compiling the list of 20 finalist contestants. The following list is the confirmed finalist according to the individual contestants.

I will update this post again after the official list is released. The confiremd contestants so far are:

  • Rinku Bajracharya – Contestant number 2
  • Priyanka Khadka – Contestant number 3
  • Rojyna Shrestha – Contestant number 7
  • Niti Shah – Contestant number 11
  • Nikita Chandak – Contestant Number 14

UPDATE – Based on a photo uploaded by the official account of Miss Nepal in Instagram, there are 21 contestants including the daughter of the Miss Nepal choreographer Rachana Sharma Gurung – Amalia Sharma. It is interesting that there are two Rojina Shrestha and I am not sure which one is the contestant 7 – the Baneshowr one or the Mitrapark one. The previous unconfirmed list has to be :

  • Ajyona Tamrakar
  • Amalai Sharma
  • Rojina Shrestha (Baneshowr)
  • Rojina Shrestha (Mitrapark)
  • Gyani Maya Baral
  • Swostika Silwal
  • Anusha Lamsal
  • Ashima Baral
  • Dristi Katuwal
  • Urusha Adhikari
  • Kritika Giri
  • Barsha Pokharel
  • Rakhcha Karki
  • Anita Bhandari
  • Manjari Singh
  • Namrata Gurung
  • Sahara Basnet

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Miss Nepal 2017 training kicks off, Finale on June 2

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The 2017 edition of Miss Nepal beauty contest has started on April 19, 2017 with an orientation program in Kathmandu. The 22nd edition of the contest has 30 initial participants. The contestants this year included young girls from Kathmandu, Pokhara, Butwal, Dhulabari and Chitwan. One third of these participants will be eliminated before the 20 contestants are selected for the finale contest to be held on June 2, 2017.

Four Miss Nepal titles this year

In the past contests there used to be top 3 titles selected to participate in three different international beauty contests. This year, one more title is added to send a Nepali beauty to Miss Asia Pacific contest. To select the top 4, top 7 finalists will compete in the final round. In the past three winners used to be selected from the final round of Top 5 contestants.

For the first time in Miss Nepal contest, some of the contestants also participated in the audition remotely. The girls living abroad who wanted to participate in Miss Nepal also participated in the audition through Skype call. The organizers have told that they are expecting participants from Dubai and Hong Kong.

Highly competitive

According to the organizers, this year’s Miss Nepal contest is going to be highly competitive because of the participants from the diverse professional fields. There are well known professional models, engineers, architects, entrepreneurs and girls from other fields. It is going to be tough for the winner to excel in such a diverse and talented contestant pool.

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Ronali Amatya wins Miss congeniality, Miss Eco International 2017 title goes to Canada

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Nepali beauty, Ronali Amatya as won the Miss congeniality title at the Miss Eco International 2017 beauty contest held in Egypt from April 1 to April 15. On the last day of the contest, Amatya was awarded with the title.

Video report (update)

Miss Eco International 2017 winners

The crown of Miss Eco International 2017 title went to Miss Canada, Amber Bernachi from Ontario, Canada. The 27 years old beauty from Canada is the 1st runner-up to the Miss Universe Canada 2016. The 1.65m beauty, Amber Bernachi, was crowned the Miss International Canada 2016. Bernachi had also participated in Miss International 2017 held in Japan. She was one of the Top 15 in the contest. Amber Bernachi is a BA in Business Administration and a BA in Political Science graduate from the University of Windsor (Canada).
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Nominations – Box Office Cine Award to be held in Canada

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Box Office Film Club has annouced the nomintions of the nineth edition of Box Office Film Award in a program held in Kathmandu. The nominated artists were awarded with the nomination medal and certificate. The musical program also featured different singers and comedy actors. The final award is scheduled to be held in Toronto, Canada. The dates and the details of the award ceremony is yet to be confirmed.

In the award, 80 different movies released in the year 2072 were reviewed for the nomination. The 11-members jury included director Tulsi Ghimire, journalist Bijaya Rata Tuladhar, actor Dinesh Sharma, director Raju Adhikari, producer Subash Karki among others.

There were nominations in 46 categories including poster design to film halls. The categories overlap themselves. Almost every artists in the film industry have been nominated in the award. So, talking in details about all the nominated artists is waste of time and effort. So, I have just included the film and lead artists categories.

5 nominations of Best movies:

  1. Classic (Watch ‘Classic’ here)
  2. Prem Geet (Watch ‘Prem Geet’ here)
  3. Kabaddi Kabaddi (Watch ‘Kabaddi Kabaddi’ here)
  4. Pashupati Prasad (Watch ‘Pashupati Prasad’ here)
  5. Dreams (Watch ‘Dreams’ here)

5 nominations for the best artist

  1. Khagendra Lamichhane – Pashupati Prasad
  2. Dayahang Rai – Kabaddi Kabaddi
  3. Deepakraj Giri – Woda Number 6
  4. Samyam Puri – Luv Sab
  5. Rekha Thapa – Rampyari

– Watch ‘Woda Number 6’ here
– Watch ‘Luv Sab’ here
– Watch ‘Rampyari’ here
– Watch ‘Bhairav’ here
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4 Miss Nepal winners to represent Nepal in International Beauty contests this year

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Till last year, top 3 winners of Miss Nepal contests used to represent international beauty contests. Starting this year, one more Miss Nepal will represent Nepal in the international contest. The fourth placed winner of Miss Nepal 2017 will now go to Miss Asia Pacific beauty contest.

Miss Nepal in Miss Asia Pacefic

Although the fourth place winner of Miss Nepal is going to participate in Miss Asia Pacific beauty contest this year, this is not the first time Miss Nepal had participated in the contest. That was the first international beauty contests Miss Nepal used to go before the agreement with the Miss world beauty contest.

The first Miss Nepal, Ruby Rana, (in 1994) participated in Miss Asia Pacific 1994 in Philippines. After Ruby, Miss Nepal 1995 Sumi Khadka and Miss Nepal 1996 Punam Ghimire also participated in Miss Asia Pacific contests.
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Himani and Paras – Insider’s Photos of Bratabandha at Nirmal Niwas

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The ex-princess and her daughters wore the royal looks in the Upanayan ceremony of the son of the ex-prince Paras Shah and ex-princess Himani Shah, Hridayendra Shah. (I talked about the event in my earlier post)

A video report:

The 14 years old young-ex-prince Hridayendra’s Bratabandha ceremony was conducted in a private function held at the residence of ex-King Gyanendra. Only the close relatives were invited in the function. As no journalists were invited to the ceremony, no photos or the videos of the ceremony were released.

I have collected these photos from various sources in Facebook.


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Ronali Amatya goes to Egypt to participate in Miss Eco International 2017

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To participate in the Miss Eco International 2017 beauty contest, Nepali beauty, Ronali Amatya has arrived in Cairo, Egypt. The beauty contest is scheduled to start on April 1 and runs till April 15.

Including the Nepali beauty, beauties from 80 different countries are participating in the contest.

Nepal in Miss Eco Tourism

Miss Eco International is an international beauty contest organized by LTCP Organization. The beauty contest with Beauty for Eco theme is geared towards the promotion of tourism and environment started in 2015 in Egypt. The first contest had participants from 60 countries.

In the 2015 edition the Miss Nepal Earth at that time, Prinsha Shrestha, had participated in the contest. The Miss Nepal organizer wasn’t happy by Prinasha’s participation in the contest and they had stripped her off the Miss Nepal Earth crown.

In the 2016 edition of Miss Eco International, Nagma Shrestha had represented Nepal. Nagma’s participation had been a successful participation as she had also won an award titled “Best Video Tourism”.

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Paras and Himani son – so called Baby King public appearance after bratabandha

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The bratabandha ceremony of the grandson of ex-king Gyanendra Shah, Hridayendra Shah was held at Nirmal Niwas on March 30, 2017. Media were not invited in the private ceremony. But, the son of Paras and Himani went to Hanuman Dhoka after the ceremony where the media had photo opportunity.

video report:

14 years old Hridayendra is the only son of ex prince Paras Shah and ex princess Himani Shah. If monarchy weren’t abolished, he would be in line to the throne of Nepal.

Baby King Concept

Hridayendra was dubbed ‘baby king’ by some political leaders in Nepal – arguing that he would be a better choice to be the king compared to former Crown Prince Paras Shah as Paras is not popular with the people. Paras was involved in a lot of misconducts and wasn’t thought to be capable of ruling the country.
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Miss Chitwan 2017 is Suman Gurung, gets wild card entry in Miss Nepal 2017

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In the third edition of Miss Chitwan beauty contest, held in Chitwan on March 24, 2017, Suman Gurung was selected to wear the Miss Chitwan 2017 title. After winning the crown, Gurung gets the direct entry to participate in Miss Nepal 2017 contest to be held in near future. (Application for Miss Nepal 2017 has recently been called.)

The third Miss chitwan, Gurung, was crowned by the reigning Miss Nepal 2016, Asmee Shrestha. Suman was selected from a pool of 28 contestants. After winning the title, Suman was awarded with Yamaha Fashino Scooter, cash prize and a free entry into Power House Gym.

The first runner up of the contest is Manisha Bhattarai, second runner up is Suvekshya Sharma, the third runner up is Sujita Neupane and Urusha Adhikari was selected to be the fourth runner up.

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Miss Nepal 2017 application open till April 13, 2017 (video update)

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Video Update:

The application for Miss Nepal 2017 is open now. The eligible Nepali girls can apply for the most prestigious beauty contest in Nepal.

The seven perquisites for the application are:

  1. Single, never married, naturally born, female, Nepali citizen
  2. Virgin – they say that, the applicant shouldn’t have given birth to a baby
  3. Age 19 to 24. The cutoff date is December 31, 2017.
  4. Education 10+2 or equivalent.
  5. Height should be minimum of 5 feet and 4 inches (that is 164 cms)
  6. Attractive, in sound health and good moral character.
  7. Tattoo taboo – No tattoos on body

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Holi 2017 celebrity celebration (Video and Photos)

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Like previous years, celebrities have shared their photos and videos in social network. I had posted a collection of photos shared early by some celebrities. This is a latest update with more photos.
Hot actress Sushma Adhikari’s holi 2017

A video on How artists celebrate holi:

Holi photo of actress Barsha Raut. Barsha is one of the most popular actress these days with threes successful movies in her credit – ‘Nai Nabhannu La 4’, ‘Chhaka Panja’ and ‘Jatra’:
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Actress Tejula Khatiwada married a lawyer

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Nepali actress of ‘The Most Wanted’ and ‘Just For You’, Teluja Khatiwada has married Suman Raj Basnet of Birtamod, Jhapa. The marriage ceremony was organized in Kathmandu on February 18, 2017 at Kundalini Durbar banquet. Film artists, journalists and family members were invited in the cremony.

Who is Tejula Khatiwada?

The bride, Tejula Khatiwada was an actress of the Nepali film industry. She debuted in ‘The most Wanted’ but wasn’t much successful as an actress. I wrote about Tejula Khatiwada in 2009. She had told that she wanted to be a bold actress then. (read the post) Apart from movies, she had also worked in video films, and music videos. Here are some of her movies:

Watch ‘The Most Wanted’ here.

Watch ‘Jawaf’ here.
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I am still 25 after working in film industry for 27 years – Rajesh Hamal

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Actor Rajesh Hamal has told that he still is 25 years old although he has worked in the film industry for the last 27 years. Hamal told the statement in funny way to the crowd gathered in Battar, Nuwakot during his stage performance. Rajesh Hamal told his famous dialogues, told about his previous visits to Nuwakot and danced to the songs by lok singer Sunita Dulal.

Video report:

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Barsha Raut, Poojana, Rajani, Subin Limbu to catwalk in first ever Nepali fashion show in UAE

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For the first time in the history of Nepali fashion industry, some actresses and models are going to catwalk in United Arab Emeritus (UAE). That is after the organization of Nepali music award and film award there. The fashion show is being organized by Cheparo.com. In addition to the models from Nepal, local models will also participate in the fashion show.

The participants of the February 10 fashion show from Nepal include, ‘Loafer’ debut and the actress of superhit movie ‘Pardeshi’, Rajani KC. Actress Poojana Pradhan, ‘Kafal Pakyo’ actress Barsha Raut and Miss Nepal 2014, Subin Limbu. The fashion show titled ‘Fashion Fusion’ will be held in Four Points By Sheratona Hotel.The choregorapher of the fashion show is Sabitri Khatri.
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