Friday Release, Aago 2

This Friday, on January 23, 2015 new Nepali film ‘Aago 2’ is releasing in theater. The sequel of the successful movie released 14 years ago is directed by Madan Ghimire. The movie featuring Sushil Chhetri, Ganesh Giri, Sarika Ghimire, and Priya Rijal is produced by Kishan Pokharel and Kiran Thapa. The movie is made on the story of social and political turmoil in Nepal.

aago poster

The main highlight of the film according to the director are:

  • Leaders – the film shows how leaders have been playing villains in Nepali society
  • Love story – The movie also feature the love story of the characters played by Sarika Ghimire, a daughter of a leader and Ganesh Giri, a patriotic journalist.
  • Action – The action of Sushil Chhetri is the main attraction in the film.
  • Item girl Priya Rijal – The Item dance of the hot model and actress is also one of the attraction of the film.
  • Music – Music by Bikash Chaudhari is another attraction of the film.

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Friday Release, Soul Sister

The Highly High production film ‘Soul Sister’ was released in QFX, Big Movies, FCube and Q’s Cinemas on Thursday, January 15. In other theaters the film was released on Friday, January 16. The debut movie of actress Namrata Shrestha as a producer was also premiered in Central Cinema.

The film featuring , Namrata Shrestha, Deepak Sharma and Rabina Deshraj in leading role is directed by Prasant Rasaili. Although the initial critical review of the film is positive, the viewers have complained that it is not easy to understand.

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Friday Release, Aavash, Alvida, and Tathastu

Three new Nepali movies are releasing on this Friday, January 9, 2014. Rekha Thapa‘s ‘Tathastu’, Samyam Puri‘s ‘Aavash’ and Aryan Sigdel‘s ‘Alvida’ are the movies fighting to attract the viewers.

Aavash

Targeted to the youths, Nepali film ‘Aavash’ is directed by Surendra Poudel featuring actors Samyam Puri, Ashma DC, Nisha Adhikari, Salon Basnet, and Sunil Rawal in main roles. Made on a youth love story the story of the film is written by the director himself in association with Hemraj BC. The online couple Samyam Puri and Ashma DC were actually in love relationship offline. But, in a latest report, they have separated on mutual understanding. Samyam is currently busy in the shooting of another movie so, he hasn’t participated in the promotion of the movie.

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Tathastu promotion and Rekha Thapa, has she invested in the film?

Actress Rekha Thapa is totally biased during the promotion of the movie based on the film production house. She gives all of her in her home production movies and ignores the films produced by others. There are a lot of examples of failure of the movies when Rekha ignored the promotion of the movie. The last example was ‘Damdar’ (watch ‘Damdar’) for which we wrote about the lack of enthusiasm of Rekha in the promotion of the film. She didn’t even show up in the press meet organized by the film makers.

But, in the case of ‘Tathastu’, she has changed her attitude and has been promoting the movie in her Facebook page, in every interviews and she is even promoting the film in television shows. Now the question arises, what made Rekha to give herself in the promotion of the movie produced by somebody other than herself.

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Friday Release – Zindagi Rocks and My Promise

Two new Nepali movies are releasing on the Friday, January 2, 2015 – ‘Zindagi Rocks’ and ‘My Promise’. Both movies are targeted to the new generation youths.

Zindagi Rocks

A movie made on the story of a group of youths in a holiday trip and their adventure is ‘Zindagi Rocks’. The movie directed by Nikesh Khadka is a love story movie dealing with friendship, relationships with comedy. The movie features Somraj Tuladhar, Akesha Bista and SonamPakhrin in lead roles.

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Friday Release, Bidhuwa

This week, the only Nepali movie released in theater is ‘Bidhawa’ on December 26. The movie made on the socio-cultural issue of the life of a woman after the death of her husband is directed by Manoj Shrestha. Actress Sonu Ghimire is featured in leading role and other actors include Dilip Rayamajhi and the director Manoj Shrestha himself.

The movie with social message had organized various charity shows before finally being released in theater. The movie is told to have message that the so-called low-cast and single women should be honored. ‘Bidhawa’ is produced by Giri Prasad Sunar.

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Kohinoor piracy, chor police game goes on

When a copy of super-hit movie of late actor Shree Krishna Shrestha, ‘Kohinoor’ appeared in YouTube, the producer/director Aakash Adhikari was shocked. After submitting a complaint YouTube removed the movie. But, some more users uploaded the movie again.

In the last few days multiple copies of the movie were uploaded in different user names. It looks like somebody is playing chor (thief) and the producer is playing police and submitting complaints to the video host before it removes it.

Aakash Adhikari organized a press meet on Wednesday to announce that the pirated copy was removed from the site. But, when we checked YouTube on Friday, there was at least one copy of the movie in the site (screenshot attached below).

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No Asian films shortlisted in Oscar Awards (including Jhola)

In the 9-movies list of the nomination for the Foreign Language Films in Oscar Awards 2015, no Asian movies have been selected. Nepali movie ‘Jhola’ was one of the 83 Foreign Language films initially considered for the selection of the films.

  • Argentina, "Wild Tales," director – Damián Szifrón
  • Estonia, "Tangerines,"  director – Zaza Urushadze
  • Georgia, "Corn Island," director – George Ovashvili
  • Mauritania, "Timbuktu,"  director – Abderrahmane Sissako
  • Netherlands, "Accused," director – Paula van der Oest
  • Poland, "Ida," director – PaweÅ‚ Pawlikowski
  • Russia, "Leviathan," director – Andrey Zvyagintsev
  • Sweden, "Force Majeure," director – Ruben Östlund
  • Venezuela, "The Liberator," director – Alberto Arvelo

Five out of the 9 movies will make it to the final nomination, to be announced on January 15.

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Namrata and Aryan to do Homework

Gopi Krishna Movies announced a new movie titled ‘Homework’ featuring actors like Namrata Shrestha, Aryan Sigdel, and Bijaya Lama. The movie to be directed by Nirak Poudel, the son of Gopi Krishna Movies owner Uddav Poudyal, will feature Aryan Sigdel in a new looks – an aged man.

A press meet was organized on Tuesday, December 16, to announce the movie. In the event five more movies to be produced by the company were also announced. ‘Homework’ will be the first of them to go on floor. In the movie, Purushottam Pradhan will be the cinematographer, Chandra Pant will direct the action, choreography will be done by Kabiraj Gahatraj and Taraprakash Limbu will compose the music. The lyrics of the movie are written by Krishnahari Baral and story by Shivam Adhikari.

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Namrata Shrestha movie Soul Sister releasing on Jan 16

Actress Namrata Shrestha announced the release date of her debut movie has a producer ‘Soul Sister’ in a press meet organized on Monday. The press meet was special as her ex-lover was seen the the event and it is believed that the love affair has resumed after one year of break up. Namrata announced the release date of her production, ‘Soul Sister’ on the December 15 event. The movie is scheduled to release on January 16, 2015 (Magh 2).

The movie written and directed by Prasant Rasaili features Namrata Shrestha with actors like , Deepak Sharma, Rabina Deshraj and others. The movie was shot in Sikkim, India.

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Friday Release, Kanchi Matyang Tyang and Love You Baba

Two new movies being released this week include ‘Kanchi Matyang Tyang’ and ‘Love You Baba’. Friday, December 12

Love You Baba

The record making movie by an 8 years-old director, Saugat Bista, ‘Love You Baba’. Saugat has directed the movie featuring his father, Gajit Bista, in leading role with other actors like Sangam Bista, Nishma Ghimire, Ashishma Nakarmi and others. The movie is made on the story of a father and a daughter.

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Bheti and Lafada producer Narayan Khatiwada found dead in a hotel

Nepali film producer Narayan Khatiwada is found dead in a hotel in Kathmandu at round 3 PM on Wednesday, December 10, 2014. He had checked in room number 103 of Hotel Hardik in Bagbazar on Tuesday. On Wednesday morning, when nobody answered the door of his room, the room was forced open to find Khatiwada dead.

Tihar Photo: Narayan Khatiwada’s sisters’ wishes for long life in the Tihar couldn’t save him.

Originally from Chitwan, Khatiwada had recently completed the shooting of his third movie, ‘Mero Manche’. He had also produced movies ‘Bheti’ (Watch Bheti here) and ‘Lafada’ (watch ‘Lafada’ here).

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How Funny, shooting starts

Usually, there is nothing funny about the start of the shooting of a movie. But, the start of the shooting of the movie featuring actresses Priyanka Karki, Nisha Adhikari and Keki Adhikari is very funny. You may ask ‘How Funny’ – yes that is it! The movie itself is named ‘How Funny’. We hope, it is going to be funny enough!

The movie produced by ex-Miss Nepal, Malvika Subba and being written and directed by Nilu Dolma Shrepa. With the three beautiful actresses, the movie also feature actors like Dayahang Rai and Anup Bikram Shahi, to make it funnier. These are talented bunch of actors whose funny bone will be tested in the movie.

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Friday Release – Naike and Rang Baijani

This week two new Nepali movies ‘Naike’ and ‘Rang Baijani’ are releasing on theater on Friday, December 5, 2014. One movie is action themed and another is a story of female relationship.

Rang Baijani

The movie directed by Shambhu Pradhan, ‘Rang Baijani’ features actresses Sumina Ghimire and Garima Pant with Dikpal Karki. The movie made on a story of extramarital relationship and clash between two women marks the comeback of the well known director after 12 years of absence from the Nepali film industry. The female oriented film is expected to do well in theaters out of Kathmandu.

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Keki and Aryan also won D Cine Award (winners list)

Similar to the Kamana Film Award, held earlier, Keki Adhikari and Aryan Sigdel have managed to win the best actor awards in D Cine Award.

The film award only for the films made on digital technology, D Cine Award, was held in Kathmandu on December 3, 2014. In the award ceremony organized by Chhayachabi Creation, awards in 22 different catgories were awarded.

Two movies that won most award with 5 awards each are ‘Nai Nabhannu La 2’ and ‘Chha Ekan Chha’. Actor Aryan Sigdel and actress Keki Adhikari were awarded the best actor and actress award respectively.

Here are the list of Award winning films and their respective awards:

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