Talking on the event of announcement of the festival on Sunday, Nepali actress Namrata Shrestha talked about the importance and challenges of short films. Namrata had acted in a movie on HIV Aids a couple of years back. She told that short films need to present the story in a very short time and hence can only be made by creative people.
Now, the controversy deepened when the top 10 best actors actresses in Nepali television didn’t include ‘the Best’ actors and actress. Most of the nominations are unknown to the larger portion of the audience.
The decision was reached by the mobile SMS voting. The ones who are free and have friends who can send a lot of SMS message got on the top while the best ones were sidelined. Looks like, the procedure in itself is not a fair measure of selection of best actors.
Many bloggers ‘cried foul’ on the intension of the protest as the dress worn by the actress in the movie doesn’t seem to harm the religion in any way.
When the producers and artists of the movie wrote letter explaining that the design of the dress was not intended to degrade the Hindu belief and it was purely used for commercial and entertainment purpose. The heads of the organization reviewed the movies and have decided to let the movie screen.
In a letter written to the producers, Mahamayaprasad Singh of the Hindu organization, told the producers not to repeat such mistakes again and told them to use the medium to promote the religion.
Nikhil is living with Sanchita Luitel, somewhere in Mumbai after the reported marriage. Nikhil Upreti is stil in wedlock while Sanchita is divorced from her first previous husband.
The director of the movie, Madan Ghimire, waited for Nikhil’s return for a month. When he realized Nikhil is not coming back soon, he made arrangements for the dubbing to be held in Mumbai with the help of the producer, Dinesh Thapa, and in association with Prime Studio, the recording studio in Nepal. It is told that the recording completed in Mumbai, last week.
But, following questions are still unanswered :
In the event, Tsering Moktan was awarded Miss Teen Tamang 2009 title. Amrita Moktan won the first runner-up title and Dechhen Chukti Dong won the second runner-up title.
The Miss Tourism 2007 and second runner-up of Miss Nepal 2009, Kunchan Moktan handed the Miss Tamang crown to Tsering. With the crown, Tsering was also awarded with Rs. 15,000 cash and Miss Personality award. The first and second runner-ups were also awarded with a cash of Rs. 10,000 and Rs. 5,000 respectively.
Other award winners are:
Don’t make sex tapes at all! That is the lesson to be learnt from the recent events of Namrata and Pooja, and Carrie Prejean as well (I think).
Former miss California Carrie Prejean told Larry King that his questions were inappropriate on the last night’s Larry King Live show. She took off her microphone and threatened to walk off the show.
Carrie Prejean caused a stir at the Miss USA pageant earlier this year with an answer to a question about gay marriage posed by Miss USA judge Perez Hilton. Her answer was:
“We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. And you know what, I think in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that’s how I was raised.”
Miss Nepal Zenisha Moktan is seen in a photo session in London, UK with her renewed smile, in the preparation of the Miss World 2009, to be held on December 12 in South Africa.
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The 21 year old “Mr. John†(Amit Gautam) of Samakhusi Kathmandu is arrested in Kathmandu along with students, models and celebrities (the word is misspelled in the website). Amit, who was arrested in Naxal, was acting as contact point for the website based prostitution in Nepal. The racket is actually led by Indian in New Delhi and the girls were being supplied mainly to Indian nationals visiting Nepal. Amit was being helped by Sangita Shrestha
Sangeeta Shrestha, 33, a resident of Tahachal who was mastermind in arranging girls for the business was also arrested from her home.
UPDATE: Photos of Sangeeta Shrestha after her arrest.(Credits: Kiran Bhattarai, RSS)
Did you know about Tejula Khatiwada? Neither did I.
Looks like she wanted people to know her. That might be the reason why she is telling that she has no problem shedding clothes in movies.
Well, she is an actress and her debut movie “The Most Wanted†isn’t released yet. She is also signed in another unnamed movie. Apart from playing in movies she had played in some music videos and two video films named Jawaf and Dushman, in the past.
The 22 year old actress from Sindhuli thinks acting skill combined with some bold scenes makes a film successful. It is yet to be seen how skilled she is in her acting and bold scenes. You can read a short interview of the new actress in Nepali here (sorry, the link is not working).
It is certainly a good news for the well wishers of Namrata Shrestha. Namrata will forget all the bad publicity and start acting in an upcoming movie soon.
After the release of a scandalous video in September there had been various speculation about her film career. Many had forecasted the end of her film career. To prove them wrong she is coming back in a strong role of a drug addict based on the life of Ekata Mahat.
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Sujata Koirala, daughter of Giraja Prasad Koirala faced huge criticism when she was brought into the government led by her father back in 2008. She was even termed as “the female counterpart of Paras, the notorious son of the suspended monarch Gyanendra in Nepali Congress politics.†by a noted journalist, Dinesh Wagle. When she was given a foreign portfolio in the current government her own party stood against her. The senior Koirala managed to cool down the debate so that she could gather the courage to demand for a Deputy Prime Minister post. In August, the Foreign Minister showed her dissatisfaction by refusing to go with the PM on a high level diplomatic visit to India on the last minute. Many have seen the move as “Height of irresponsibility†on her part. She also made headlines when she invited 3,500 guests on her daughter’s wedding reception. The country’s Social Behavior Reform Act 1976 however bars marriage parties from having more than 51 invitees.
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World record holder Apa Sherpa broke his own record of climbing the highest peak for the 18th time on 2008-05-22. Now, he is on his way to the top of the peak for the 19th time. Let’s wish him luck!
Appa Sherpa on his way to Mt. Everest to climb it for the 19th time.
He is preparing for the summit bid in May to raise awareness about climate change.
Apa climbed Mt. Everest for the first time nearly a couple of decades ago (on May 10th of 1990). If you are interested in his biography this page might be the best place to go for.
Before heading for the peak he was quoted as telling “I am not looking for recognition or doing this just to beat my own record. My objective is to highlight the environmental degradation of the mountain and draw attention to the issue of global warming”.
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He devoted all of his life to helping the Sherpa people of Nepal through the Himalayan trust, which he founded and to which he had given much of his time and energy. Through his efforts he had succeeded in building many schools and hospitals in this remote region of the Himalayas. He was the Honorary President of the American Himalayan Foundation, a United States non-profit body that helps improve the ecology and living conditions in the Himalayas.
The photo in right shows Sir Edmund Hillary after he was decorated by with a Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw in 2004. (Photo AFP)
In the photo below, Tenzing Norgay Sherpa of Nepal and Edmund P. Hillary of New Zealand, show the kit they wore when conquering the world’s highest peak, the Mount Everest, on May 29, at the British Embassy in Katmandu, capital of Nepal, in this June 26, 1953 file photo. Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the 20th century’s greatest adventurers, has died, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Friday.(Photo AP)
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Update: Death toll reaches 20 (28 Dec. 07)
Update: Toll reaches 16 with 36 still missing (26 Dec. 07)
At least 13 persons were killed and over 70 missing after an overloaded suspension bridge over the Bheri River in Western Nepal collapsed Tuesday afternoon.
Nearly 300 people were crossing the ill-fated bridge connecting Daha-chaur and Medhapura VDCs in Surkhet when it collapsed at around 1:30 this afternoon, the district police office quoted eye-witnesses as saying.
The people were on their way to a big religious fair at nearby Subha-ghat area when the bridge built only a few months back collapsed.
Security officials involved in aerial inspection of the incident site informed that scores of people could be seen swept by the river. Deputy Inspector General at the regional Armed Police Force Office, Krishna Bahadur Bista informed that most of them included women and girls.
The zonal police office informed that over 150 people were rescued from the river till the evening.
Among them, nearly 50 people were taken to Birendranagar for treatment, the police added.
Local heads of the administrative and security agencies in the region reached the accident site which lies around ten kilometers northeast of Chhinchu Bazaar.
Around two hundred people reportedly managed to swim to safety.
