Four new movies are being released in theaters in Nepal today – on Friday, September 25, 2015. All the four movies ‘Chankhe Shankeh Pankhe’, Hollywood movie ‘Highway to Dhumpus’, ‘Kaamchor’ and ‘Bhale Fight’ are considered awaited movies.
This Friday, on September 18, Nepali movie ‘Woda Number Chha’ is released on theater. The unofficial sequel of the super-hit movie ‘Chha Ekan Chha’ is a solo release this week.
Because of the possibility of unrest after the release of the constitution of Nepal on Sunday, the release of ‘Woda Number Chha’ in theaters out of Kathmandu have been postponed. The distributor company AFD has decided to release the movie only the the theatres in Kathmandu. That is the reason, the promotion effort of the movie was focused only in Kathmandu.
After the success of ‘Chha Ekan Chaa’ the production team had teamed up to produce the second movie of similar theme and comedy. ‘Woda Number Chaa’ is directed by Ujjwal Ghimire and is produced jointly by Deepak Raj Giri, Deepa Shree Niraula and Nirmal Sharma. The movie is produced under the banner of Aama Saraswoti Geeta Devi Movies. The movie features Priyanka Karki, Deepak Raj Giri, Deepa Shree Niraula, Jitu Nepal, Kedar Ghimire, Sitaram Kattel, Dayahang Rai, Nir Shah and others. The movie features choreography of Gambhir Bista and Shankar BC, VFx and Editing by Gautam Raj Khadka, cinematography of Deepak Bajracharya, action by Roshan Shrestha.
Rekha’s movie ‘Rampyari’ is inaugurated on the auspicious occasion of Bishowkarma Puja. According to Hindu belief, Bishowkarma is the god of tools. On every Shrawan 1st god Bishowkarma is worshiped and the tools like vehicle, computer, camera etc. are worshiped for them to work properly. Rekha has chosen the day to start the shooting of her movie. Rekha’s statement on the start of the shooting:
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Why not Kishor Khatiwada?
Rekha Thapa has chosen actor Sabin Shrestha to be featured opposite to her in her upcoming movie ‘Rampyari’. Although she took a long time to choose the actor in the role, the relationship between the two is still good. Rekha is known to drift away from the actor who debut in her movies. Rekha Thapa had introduced in Sabin Shrestha in ‘Andaaz’ (watch ‘Andaaz’ here) in 2011.
Rekha’s nephew Avash Adhikari was chosen for a main role in March and his opposite in the movie is going to be Ashma DC according to a report published on the first week of September. After signing the agreement with Sabin, the movie is going to floor on Ashoj 1 (September 18). After a lengthy stay in the USA, Rekha had returned back to Nepal on July 27 to start the shooting of the movie.
Rekha Thapa relation with actors
When we look at the history of the actors Rekha had introduced in her banner, Rekha Films, most of the actors don’t even talk to her these days. We are discussing the adverse relationship of Rekha with actors:
The Nepali movie premiered in Venice Film Festival, ‘Kalo Pothhi’ has been awarded the Best Film award at the Critics Week at the 72nd Venice Film Festival. The festival was held from 2nd September to 12 September, 2015. The festival organized by Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean (FEDEORA) is one of the oldest film festivals in the world.
After winning the award, the director Min Bahadur Bham has told, “I want to dedicate this award to the my beautiful but torn country and my fellow Nepalese. I pray that peace prevails in my county and end the political crisis.” In the thank you speech, Bham has also remembered his late mother who had passed away recently.
This Friday, on September 11, 2015, two new movies are releasing on theater. The movies previously scheduled to release earlier had been pushed back by the earthquake of April 25. The movies releasing this Firday are Krishna Poudel’s ‘Dhoon’, and Dev Kumar Shrestha’s movie ‘Luv Sab’.
Earlier, Shovit Basnet‘s movie ‘Jaun Hida Pokhara’ was also scheduled to release on the date. But it seems, the movie is not going to release this Friday and actor Jaya Kishan Basnet is promoting ‘Luv Sab’. The change makes sense as the director of ‘Jaun Hida Pokhara’, Shovit Basnet is the father of Salon Basnet, the lead actor of ‘Luv Sab’.
Nepali movie ‘Kalo Pothi’ (The Black Hen) was premiered in a Venice Film Festival in Italy on September 5, 2015. To be premiered in the festival, considered to be one of the oldest film festivals in the world, is an honor to the Nepali film. This year’s Venice Film Festival is the 72nd edition of the festival.
The movie ‘Kalo Pothi’, a story of two kids during the hardship of Maoist civil war in Nepal, is 1 hour and 30 minutes long. The movie however doesn’t support any political views. The movie mostly shot in Mugu featues Khadka Raj Nepali, Benisha Hamal and Sukra Raj Rokaya. The director, Min Bahadur Bham, says that he has no immediate plans to release the movie in Nepal. The movie was produced in collaboration of the producers from Germany, Switzerland and France. The cinematographer Aziz Zhambakiyev had previously won an award on cinematography in Berlin Film Festival.
In a program held at Ganesh Mandir at Kamaladi, the shooting of the upcoming movie ‘Kismat 2’ was officially inaugurated. The movie is a sequel of the successful movie by Chhabi Raj Ojha, ‘Kismat’. In the event, the script and the clap-board of the movie were worshiped in the temple of the god, Ganesh. In Hindu culture, god Ganesh is considered the god to help during the initial stage of any work.
The shooting of the movie is scheduled to start on September 10 in locations in Jomsom. Director Rishi Lamichhane is directing the movie. Shyam Bhattarai was the director selected to direct the movie initially. But, as Shyam headed towards the USA and is not expected to return back anytime soon, Rishi is chosen to direct the movie. The director Shyam Bhattarai had gone on the refuge of Chhabi Ojha when he was kicked out of Rekha Thapa‘s movie, ‘Himmatwali’. To compensate for the unjust caused by Rekha, Chhabi had promised to let Shyam direct one of his movies.
A friend in Twitter asked if I had heard of the movie ‘Dyning Candle’ or ‘Nibhna Lageko Diyo’ in Nepali language. I hadn’t. But, I did a quick search and loved the trailer available in IMDB website (trailer is embedded at the end). The movie set in a remote location seems to be the story of a loving sister and her varied emotions towards her brother and others. I am writing about all the stuffs I could gather from the trailer and the information available online. There is no definitive release date of the movie as the post production and re-shooting seem to be going on.
The movie ‘Dying Candle’ is written and directed by Naresh Kumar KC. The original screenplay was 145 pages at the time of the start shooting. But, first 88 pages completed the movie although the ending was an unplanned one. The crew lived in the remote village for 45 days to complete the shooting. Every food item except potato had to be imported from Kathmandu. So the crew had mostly to live on potato throughout the shooting.
Actor Rajesh Hamal surprised everybody when he went to watch Nikhil Upreti‘s movie ‘Bhairav’ in theater as a part of the promotion of the movie. Rajesh Hamal is not known to promote movies like that. He usually didn’t participate in the promotion of his own movies. Rajesh went to Astanarayan theater to watch ‘Bhairav’ on Saturday, September 5.
Talking to the journalist in the event, Nikhil revealed that he is planning a movie with Rajesh Hamal. Although they had shared screen in the past, now the time has changed for both of them. Usually a very busy actor, Rajesh Hamal is free these days. Nikhil has proved that he still has his fans and star power with the success of ‘Bhairav’.
The record-breaking fourth sequel of ‘Nai Nabhannu La’ franchise, ‘Nai Nabhannu La 4’ was inaugurated officially in a program held on Krishna Asthami in Kathmandu. The inauguration ceremony was held in Maitidevi temple. In the event, Bikash Acharya introduced the new actors in the sequel.
The movie to be made on a triangular love story will be directed by Bikash Acharya. In every sequel Bikash has introduced new artists. So far, all the releases have been very successful.
This year, Dashain has become crowded by the new releases. In a latest report Aryan Sigdel and Ashika Tamang starred ‘Sushri’ is going to be released in Dashain. Four other movies previously announced their release in Dashain include ‘Thamel Dot Com’, ‘Adhakatti’, ‘Chankhe Shankhe Pankhe’ and ‘Pardeshi’.
Model Ashika Tamang, debuting in female-centric movie ‘Sushri’, is known for her looks similar to the Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie. Ashika is featured in action role in the movie. With Aryan and Ashika the movie also features Surbina Karki, Rajaram Poudel, Bikash Chapagain and Mishri Thapa in main roles.
Details of the other movies competing with ‘Sushri’ are as follows:
Actress Ashma DC has signed in to to be featured opposite to Avash Adhikari in Rekha Films’ upcoming movie ‘Rampyari’. Actress Rekha Thapa‘s nephew Avash Adhikari is going to debut in the movie. Rekha Thapa is going to be featured as an auto-rickshaw driver in the movie. The actor to be featured opposite to Rekha is yet to be confirmed.
The social drama movie is scheduled to go to floor on Ashoj 21. There is a possibility of delay in the shooting because of the unrest in Terai region. Although the shooting hasn’t started yet, the release date is fixed for the year end of the Nepali calendar.
The movie featuring Aryan Sigdel and Namrata Shrestha, ‘Mero Euta Sathi Chha’ was one of the hit movies at the time of its release in 2009. After that, the couple was repeated in ‘November Rain’. Both the movies were liked by the viewers. Encouraged by the success of the movies, Aryan Sigdel has decided to produce the sequel of the movie under Aryan Sigdel Entertainment banner.
The original ‘Mero Euta Sathi Chha’ (watch ‘Mero Euta Sathi Chha’ here) was produced by Prabhu Shumsher JBR under Eyecore Entertainment. Aryan is reported to be in talk with the producer for the rights to the name.
Two Nepali movies are going to be featured in the 20th edition of Busan International Film Festival to be held at Busan, South Korea. The festival starting on October 1.
The movie to be featured in the festival are ‘Kalo Pothi’ (The Black Hen) by Min Bahadur Bham and a short film named ‘Laaz’ (The Shame) by Sushan Prajapati.
‘Kalo Pothi’ will be one of the 51 feature films to be screened from 32 different Asian countries in ‘A Window on Asian Cinema’ category. The 1 hour and 30 minutes long movie is made on the civil war in Nepal. The movie featuring Khadka Raj Nepali, Benisha Hamal and Sukra Raj Rokaya was shot in Mugu. The movie will also be featured in the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. (Click here for the details on the movie in the official site of the festival)
Actor, director and producer, Nikhil Upreti, has lodged a complain against the distributor of his movie ‘Bhairav’ over its removal from the theater without informing him. ‘Bhairav’ distributor for Kathmandu is BK Films, the company of Nikhil’s friend Gopal Kayastha and producer of Nikhil’s upcoming movie ‘Lootera’. Upon receiving the complaint, the Film Producers Association has summoned Kayastha for the clarification on the matter.
An audio report (in Nepali)
Nikhil’s debut movie as a director ‘Bhairav’ was removed from QFX Central, Civil Mall theatre on the second day of the show. The distributor Kayastha has also told that he wasn’t made aware by the theatre management about the removal of the movie from the theatre.
