One of the most successful films of the current time, ‘Hostel’ makers have organized a success party in Kathmandu on the celebration of it’s 51 days in theater. According the the producer, Sunil Rawal, most of the film personalities, journalists and artists were invited to the party held at Siddhartha Party Palace in Banesowr.
At the time when most of the movies are not able to earn the cost, ‘Hostel’ has been able to be collect a good revenue.
At the time of the biggest festival in Nepal, Vijaya Dashami, two movies releasing on October 4 are mostly unheard of. The movies named ‘Papi Raat’ and ‘AK 47’ aren’t much advertised and aren’t expected to attract much audience.
‘Papi Raat’ was shot 2.5 years ago and features Sushil Chhetri, Sumina Ghimire , Saroj KC, Ramesh Budhathoki etc. The movie directed by Shyam KC is made under Jenim Films banner and produced by Yuvaraj Khatri. The movie features the music of Anand Khatri and choreography of Govinda Rai. The cinematographer of the movie is Shiva Dhakal.
Upcoming movie featuring ‘Maun’ actress Namrata Shrestha and Manisha Koirala‘s brother Siddhartha Koirala – ‘Megha’ is going to be released the 31st of January, 2014. The debut movie of director Samjhana Upreti Rauniyar is also made on her own story.
The director Samjhana told that the movie is made on the story of a married couple. With Namrata and Siddhartha, Raymond Das Shrestha is also featured in lead role.
Actor Bhuwan KC announced the making of the sequel of his movie ‘Karodpati’ named ‘Karodpati 2’ on his birthday. The movie will feature his son Anmol KC in the leading role.
After the success of ‘Hostel’ Anmol has raised in popularity among youngsters and is viewed as a next superstar in Nepali movie industry. Bhuwan has written the script of the movie with his son in his mind. Bhuwan says that the movie will go on floor after Dashain.
In a short films festival, Ekadeshma Film Festival, 16 new Nepali films are going to premier. The detailed program schedule of the film festival was unveiled in a press meet held in Kathmandu on Sunday.
The film festival organized by Underground Talkies starts on September 27 and runs through September 29, 2013 in QFX Kumari, Kamalpokhari. In the festival, 26 Nepali and foreign films are going to be featured in three main categories – Nepali Section (Phoolko Mala), Manhattan Section (Hirako Mala), and Student Section (Sunko Mala) in QFX Kumari and Sarbanam Theater. The winner of Nepali Section winner will be awarded Rs. 30,000 cash prize and free post production facilities. The winner of Student Section will receive Rs. 20,000 in cash prize. The selection of the winner will be based on the votes of the viewers of the movies.
This is like a scripted story in case of the director Raju Giri‘s film making. He designs hot poster without the consent from the actress and releases in the wild. The public responds to it for being hot and vulgar. There is a bit of tussle between the actress and the director before he decides to withdraw the poster.
The strategy has worked for Giri so far and he has repeated it in his upcoming movie ‘Bindaas 2’. Actress Anisha Gurung and her family objected the poster of Anisha featured on the poster. After a tussle and negotiation, Giri has agreed to remove the poster from the promotion. Satisfied Anisha will be promoting the movie actively.
In a program held in Kathmandu Aryan Sigdel and the team announced the details of his debut movie as a producer. The movie named ‘November Rain’ will be directed by the director of ‘I am Sorry’, Dinesh Raut, and will feature Aryan, Namrata Shrestha and a new actress Chhulthim Gurung in lead roles.
Nepali actress Anisha Gurung is debuting in Nepali movie industry in ‘Bindaas 2’. The film makers have copied the concept of Hindi film ‘Nasha’ in the latest poster of the movie. In place of Indian hot model Poonam Pandey, ‘Bindaas 2’ poster features Anisha. In the poster, Anisha is featured covering sensitive parts of her body by placards.
‘Bindaas 2’ director Raju Giri is known for having problems with actresses in his previous movies – ‘Bindaas’, ‘Chandrawati’, and ‘Rakshya’.
After the completion of his debut movie ‘Bhimdutt’, director Himgyap Tasi has announced his next movie – ‘Simalko Phool’. The script of the movie is written by Pratap Subba.
Himgyap is planning to have film students from USA and Canada to be featured in main roles in the movie. The names of the actors aren’t finalized yet. The movie is being produced by a NRN, Anuradha Shah. She was also the producer of Tasi’s last movie ‘Bhimdutt’.
Nepali movie made on the love story of lesbian couple, ‘Soongava : dance of the orchids’ was selected to represent Nepal in the world’s most prestigious film awards, Oscars Awards. The movie will compete in the Best Foreign Movies category.
In the race to participate in the 86th Academy Awards ‘Soongava’, ‘Sanguro’, ‘Shirish ko Phool’ and ‘Badhshala’ were selected in the first step. A committee led by Bimal Poudel and having Laxminath Sharma, Pradeep Upadhaya, Raju Bikram Thapa and Lokendra Parajuli as members has selected ‘Soongava’ to go to the Awards.
Nepali actress Nisha Adhikari is selected the brand ambassador of environment friendly Mahendra car E-20. In a ceremony held in Hayat Regency Hotel, Nisha started the sales of the car in Nepal. In the program, journalist Kunda Dikshit bought a car and became the first owner of the car in Nepal.
Nisha said, "It was an awesome experience to be announced the official brand ambassador for E20." Talking about the benefits of the car, Nisha says, "It has the most amazing apps and is a perfect vehicle for Nepal."
Actor Aryan Sigdel and actress Pooja Sharma are currently shooting in Lumbini. The shooting of a song for the movie named ‘Madhumas’ (Honeymoon in English) is undergoing in the area. After Lumbini the shooting team will head towards Palpa and Gulmi for the shooting.
According to one of the producers, Baburam Dahal, the shooting schedule is expected to last a week before it returns to Kathmandu. The promotional song of the movie is being shot in the best location that can be found in the Western Nepal.
After the pressure from the media, the Censor Board was forced to change it’s decision on censor certificate to the movie ‘Dhuwani’. The censor board had objected to a dialogue in the movie citing the dialogue to create problem with the neighboring countries. Now, the Board has allowed the movie to be screened in theaters with PG certificate. The certificate allows children to watch the movie with adults.
After this incident, it is proved that the Board doesn’t have a clear guideline on censoring movies and they act on personal preferences and intuition. This is not the first time such incident had happened. The movie banned by the Board, ‘ATM‘ was released on July 26 without change after the court found it suitable for the public. With these problems, the Board doesn’t hold any credibility to censor movies.
After the divorce Rekha Thapa and her ex-husband Chhabi Raj Ojha had produced ‘Kali‘ and ‘Loafer’ respectively and announced the same release date to compete with each other. But, when the release date nears, the relationship between the two has warmed up and now, Chhabi has appeared in ‘Kali’ poster as an executive producer.
Now Chhabi has acquired the release rights of ‘Kali’ and he will distribute the movie in the theaters. Earlier, ‘Kali’ was supposed to be distributed by other party but, Chhabi will return the advance received from the earlier party to distribute the film himself. He told, he and Rekha have realized that they are not competitors but business partners.
The censor board has been criticized for harassing film makers by objecting on non-critical stuffs. One example of the failure of Censor Board is the latest re-release of ‘ATM‘ on the order of court after facing ban from Censor Board for more than half a year.
Now, another movie ‘Dhuwani’ has been stopped by the Censor Board objecting on a simple dialogue. The movie made on girls trafficking in Nepal is objected on a dialogue stating higher demand of Nepali girls in China. The filmmakers say that the statement is based on the report of Maiti Nepal, a NGO working on trafficking.
