The first CG Kamana Film Awards was announced in a program held on December 1, 2014 in Kathmandu. In addition to awarding the artists, a cultural program was also organized featuring Nepali film artists including Karishma Manandhar, Bhuwan KC and other. The nomination list of Kamana Film Award was posted in xnepali in October.
Following movies and artists were honored by the award in the ceremony:
A film by Rishi Raj Acharya, ‘Mistake’ is a solo release in Nepali theater this Friday. The well known director of television, Rishi Raj Achary, is debuting in big screen with this movie. The movie made on a triangular love story features Harshika Shrestha, Prasant KC, Surbir Pandit, Rama Thapaliya and others.
The movie written by the director is produced by Subash Atharai. The movie is told to deal with the issues of the youths of today.
After the huge success of ‘Chha Ekan Chha‘, comedy artists Deepak Raj Giri, Deepa Shree Niraula and Nirmal Sharma have started the production of their new movie ‘Wada Number 6’. The shooting of ‘Wada Number 6’, being directed by Ujjwal Ghimire, has started in Chhapagain Studio in Kathmandu.
Although being of similar name and similar artists, the movie is not a sequel of ‘Chha Ekan Chha’. Actress Priyanka Karki has replaced ‘Chha Ekan Chha’ actress Neeta Dhungana and Ujjwal has replaced Dinesh DC. In actors, Sandeep Chhetri is also being replaced by Dayahang Rai. Other actors in the movie include Jitu Nepal, Deepak Raj Giri, Sitaram Kattel, Kedar ghimire, Kishor Khatiwada, and Shiva Hari Poudel.
The well known producer Chhabi Raj Ojha started in Nepali film industry at the age of 25 years. It has been more 25 years since he has been active in distribution and production of Nepali movies. On the occasion of his 50th birthday and silver jubilee in Nepali film industry, a special program was organized in Kathmandu. In addition to cutting cakes and receiving gifts, Chhabi also announced an upcoming movie – ‘Kismat 2’. A sequel of the hit movie ‘Kismat’ (watch Kismat here) is the 18th production of the director.
History of film production of Chhabi Raj Ojha:
Three actresses who debuted in Chhabi’s film – Shilpa Pokharel, Rajani KC and Poojana Pradhan in Chhabi’s 50th birthday (Left to right):
During the end-clap of the movie ‘Nai Na Bhannu La 3’, actress Sanchita Luitel has told that she is very happy to be the part of the Nepali film industry. Although it has already been four years since she had faced movie camera, she told, it feels like 4 days. Sanchita had also appeared in a music video on mother and danced in a program in Malaysia earlier this year.
In the last few years Sanchita got married to Nikhil Upreti and gave birth to two children. In the past some time Sanchita was preparing for the comeback by shedding weight and taking care of her appearance. In the movie, Sanchita is featured opposite to Suraj Singh Thakuri.
The two new releases this week are ‘Shree 5 Ambare’, a movie featuring Saugat Malla and Keki Adhikari in leading role and Baboo Bogati and Wilson Bikram Rai’s ‘Humjayega’.
A special show of ‘Shree 5 Ambare’ was also held in Kumari Theater for the special guests, journalists and film artists. Ex prime minster Baburam Bhattarai and UML leader Pradeep Gaywali were among the guests in the show.
This week, on November 14, 2014, Nepali movie ‘Jerryy’ is releasing in theater all over Nepal. The movie directed by ‘Hostel‘ director, Hemraj BC, features Anmol KC, Anna Sharma, Amalia Sharma and Abhishek Man Sherchan in leading roles.
‘Jerryy’ is a movie made on romantic drama story about a playboy type of youth played by Anmol KC. Anmol meets Akanchha (Anna) when he is in a tour to Mustang. The movie features the beautiful sceneries of Mustang.
After 8 years, actress Rekha Thapa is going to be featured opposite to Nikhil Upreti in upcoming movie ‘Lootera’. The movie to be produced by the distributor, Gopal Kayastha, will be directed by Shabir Shrestha. Although Nikhil and Rekha have agreed to work together verbally, they are yet to sign a contract.
Nikhil and Rekha had shared screen in a number of hit movies like ‘Ae Pandit Baje’ (watch Ae Pandit Baje) ‘Dhadkan’, ‘Nikhil Dai’, Pale Dai (watch Pale Dai), Karmayoddha, Barmala (watch Barmala), and Dobato. The relationship had however soured in the last few years. Gopal Kayastha has played a role in bringing Rekha and Nikhil together again.
It is to be seen if they will still charm the Nepali audience. There was a report of Rekha Thapa to be featured as an item girl in an Nikhil’s film ‘Bharirav’ the progress however is not known.
This week, two new movies ‘Sorry La’ and ‘Euta Sathi’ were released in theater all over Nepal on November 7, 2014.
The movie by director Rishi Lamichane features Rajan Khatiwada, Subash Thapa, Anita Acharya, Roshan Maharjan, Martin Khan etc. in main role. The story of the love story movie is written by Anju KC.
Yes, ‘Hostel Returns’ is releasing in theater on May 8, 2015.
After the success of ‘Sayaad’ (watch Sayaad) and ‘Hostel’, producer Sunil Rawal is releasing his next movie ‘Hostel Returns’ after six months of the completion of the shooting. The sequel of his earlier movie doesn’t repeat any of the actors of the original movie ‘Hostel’ (Watch full movie ‘Hostel’ here) and the story is also told to be unrelated.
A special show of the movie scheduled to release on this Friday, ‘Sorry La’ was held in Big Movies, Kathmandu among film personalities and journalists. A presentation of Anju KC and production of Krishna Maharjan Das, ‘Sorry La’ is directed by Rishi Lamichane.
The movie features Subash Thapa, Rajan Sedhai, Anita Acharya, and Martin Khan in main roles. A well known model Anita is debuting in Nepali movie in this movie. The movie is made on the story of love affair in social network and its result.
UPDATE : Watch the full movie ‘Talakjung Vs Tulke’ here.
The new release Nepali movie this week on October 31, 2014 is ‘Talakjung Vs Tulke’. The movie by ‘Loot‘ director Nischal Basnet has got a good traction in social media and traditional media. The movie is released in one third of 5 multiplex theaters in Kathmandu.
The release of the movie in the theaters out of Kathmandu was however postponed. The movie is believed to be because of the success of last week’s release ‘Lazza’ in the theaters. The movie currently showing in more than 50 theaters is doing good business. Another movie ‘Stupid Man’ is also continuing in the second week. Because of the lack of theaters another movie scheduled to release on this Friday – ‘Euta Sathi’ was also postponed for a week.
Two new movies ‘Lazza’ and ‘Stupid Man’ were released on Friday, October 24 in theaters all over Nepal. The movies have tried to cash the second biggest holiday in Nepal.
The movie directed by Nawal Nepal, ‘Lazza’ features Aryan Sigdel and Shilpa Pokharel in lead role. The producer Chhabi Raj Ojha has introduced a new actress Shilpa in his movie in an attempt to replace his long time actress Rekha Thapa. Chhabi says that Shilpa is destined to be the top actress in the Nepali film industry. There are also rumors of the affair between the two.
The movie featuring actor Biraj Bhatt has released in Nepali theater after a long time. The movie titled ‘Kabja’ is directed by Raju Giri and is released in 80 theaters all over Nepali. In the initial report, the movie opened houseful in some of the theaters.
It has been quite some time since Biraj is seen in Nepali movies. Because of the increased demand in Bojpuri movies, he hasn’t found much time to act in Nepali movie. Biraj says that he has agreed to do the movie when he heard the story.
[Watch ‘Jholey’ here – Full movie is available to watch in xnepali. Click here for the nominations of INFA 2014]
The ‘Jholey’ producer and director have expressed their surprise on the nomination of the movie in INFA 2014 awards.
In the press release signed by producer Teken Khadka and director Dipendra K Khanal, states that the movie team was not informed about the the participation in the award and they had to know about the nomination through media. They have asked the organizers to remove the nominations from the movie in the award.
