The success of ‘Chapali Height‘ in box office and the success of similar themed previous movie ‘Palpalma’ have provided Nepali producers an news insight: an adult themed movie does a good business in Nepal. Following the same trend, another Nepali movie ‘Chandrawati’ is also set to be released bearing an adult certificate.
Mar 1, 2012 @ 18:31
Home Minister Gachhadar questioned how people can be called landless squatters when they are living encroaching public land by constructing RCC buildings.
According to RSS, he said he had requested top leaders of the big three parties frequently for their support. He further said to remove fake landless squatters at any expense, and warned he will rather settle other people in Tundikhel, if they did not support him for the same.
Similarly, Minister for Physical Planning and Works Hyridayesh Tripathi said that the government was committed to conserve the river banks in the Kathmandu Valley.
Earlier in January, the Ministry of Physical Planning and Works had tasked the Department of Urban Development and Building Construction (DUDBC) with registering the squatters to identify real landless squatters.
Only 12 percent of the around 8,000 people living on the river banks filed applications for registering themselves as squatters.
According to the study of the government, more than 1,500 ropanis (76.3 hectares) of land have been encroached by the squatters on the banks of Bagmati, Bishnumati, Manohara and Dhobikhola rivers in the valley.
Mar 2, 2012 @ 18:12
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Pre-release review of My Life was posted earlier.
Increasing number of music video directors have started making feature films. Jeewan Rashaili is one of those testing waters in big screen film making. In the past most of the successful music video directors had tried to make it big, couldn’t survive in the market. ‘My Life‘ will determine the future of the music video director Rashaili’s future.
Story:
‘My Life‘ is a love story of Prabhu (Suraj RD), a MBBS student and his love to Gauri (Jharana Thapa). Gauri’s brother helps Prabhu to win the heart of Gauri. Another character, Raghu (Kamal Krishna) is a rich businessman involved in drug business. When Raghu found out that his sister has fallen in love with Gauri’s brother Raghu tries to kill Gauri and her brother. Watching the movie will help you answer the question: Will Prabhu be able to save Gauri and her brother?
Children do what they see. Children learn from imitating other’s act. They imitate what others do without thinking whether it is good or not. If they imitate good one, that will give good result. But if they imitate wrong thing, it may lead them to wrong way and even may harm them and others.
Likewise, they like to imitate the act of film stars too. While imitating such act in Taplejung, bad incident has occurred.
11 years old Keshar Purtel has got injured while imitating the act of famous Nepali fiim star Nikhil Uprety. Keshar poured kerosene on himself and lit the fire.
According to Keshar’s father, grade 3 student of local Bhagwati Primary School imitated Uprety’s act while playing with friends. Neighbor put off the fire after seeing Keshar burning. Treatment of injured Keshar is going on in Panchthar Hospital.
According to media report, similar incident has occurred earlier too in Nepalgunj and one boy jumped from terrace imitating the act of actor Biraj Bhatta.
Such repition of bad incidents demands that something should be done so that they won’t occur again and again in future too.
This time, there was an unlikely competition between a established producer and actor Bhuwan KC and a new entry actress Binita Baral. It was not only in changing their names on the suggestion of their respective astrologers, they also competed in creating controversies. And the unlikely winner was Binita Baral (we better call her Beenita Baral).
Nepali film industry is becoming more competitive these days. Established actors and actresses are facing hard time in remaining relevant in these days and the new actors and film makers are ruling our film industry. In this race, actor / producer, Bhuwan KC‘s attempt to make a comeback was not successful.
The Tito Satya team is heading for UK on Chaitra 28 for two weeks with Rajesh Hamal who had already acted in another popular comedy serial Meri Bassai. The 3-episode serial will be telecasted that will focus on the story of Nepali artists who left country and live in foreign country.
In the past, Deepak Raj Giri and Deepa Shree Niraula’s comedy show had already featured other big-screen actors like Bhuwan KC, Raj Ballav Koirala, and Keki Adhikari. The episode featuring Raj Ballav Koirala is yet to be telecasted.
A graphic designer, Ananda Maharjan, has won the Open Movie Poster Competition for a Nepali Cinema "Chhadke".
Congratulation Ananda!
The movie producers have told that the winning poster will be used in the official promotion of ‘Chhadke‘. It is told that Ananda will also be involved in the design of other promotional materials.
Rajani Thapa of Kathmandu won the title “Miss National Queen†of this year that was held on Thursday in Kathmandu. Rajani left behind 19 competitors and got opportunity to participate in Miss International Queen-2012 that is going to be held in South America.
Sweta Shrestha of Kathmandu became First Runner Up and Sudha Subedi became the Second Runner Up. Sweta and Sudha received cash prize of Rs 20000 and Rs 10000 respectively along with gift hamper.
Other title winners of this season 2 Miss National Queen are
Miss Friendship- Dhanu Sunuwar
Beautiful Hair- Risu Pokhrel
Beautiful Smile- Sristi Giri
Miss Discipline & Viewer’s Choice – Aasika Tamang
Miss Talent-Â Rajani Thapa
Miss Personality- Rashmita Khadka
Best Dress- Shila KC
Miss Best Catwalk- Sharmila Shrestha
According to the organizer, Everest Fashion Home, Rajani will be provided with various training before competing in South America.
Photo Credit: Facebook page of MISS National Queen (beauty pageant)
I wrote about film related websites in Nepal in August of 2010. The websites reviewed at that time are still in operation. Some have improved in their quality and others have remained the same.
The sites I reviewed were:
Miss Nepal 2010 first runner-up, Sahana Bajracharya, who has already played in ‘Goodbye Kathmandu’ as short appearance, has signed up and playing as the lead actress for the film “Kollywoodâ€.
Navraj Acharya will be directing this movie and its shooting will start from 1st Jestha. Aryan Sigdel will be playing in opposite to dazzling Bajracharya and the movie will expose the struggles and hardships behind the glitz and glam of ‘Kollywood’. The producer is Kumar Khadka.
“This will be undoubtedly the best film of the year,†screenwriter and music director for the movie, Pradeep Bastola has declared. But whether it will be or not is yet to be watched.
Introduction
‘My Life‘ is a Nepali movie produced by the Unlimited Dreams and Biwash Ghale and directed by Jeewan Rashaili. By observing the promo of the movie, one can say that it is targeted to the young generation. The movie is made in digital format and is being distributed by Digital Cinema Nepal.
Views of producer / director
According to the director, Jeewan Rashaili, who had spoken in various media, my life is a revenge thriller love story which is different from other movies in its technical aspects. He also added that he has tried to use special effects in the movie for the entertainment of the viewers. The movie is basically is about love story of youths and revenge.
Chapali height” (watch Chapali Height here) got a good media coverage both before and after release. That was partly because of different controversies the movie was involved in before it was released, and ‘sexual psychology’ highlighted in it’s promotion. Although some have questioned the validity of the claims of its producer that ‘Chapali Height‘ has collected 50 lakhs in a single day, the publicity and viewers in theaters show it should have had a decent opening. But, one can expect the initial response to fade in lights of negative reviews it is getting from critics and viewers.
Now, the question arises – is the movie getting negative review from viewers just because it has got sexual contents?
‘Chapali Height‘ compares well with a previous similar movie ‘Pal Pal Ma‘ released about two years ago. The movie ‘Pal Pal Ma‘ had also got an adult certificate from the censor board and it was publicized as the first Nepali movie to get an adult certificate. The ‘A’ certificate itself proved to be a tool of good publicity, and a good business as well. But, in essence, ‘Pal Pal Ma‘ had nothing to win the hearts of its viewers and virtually nobody appreciated it as a movie. In the movie, the topic of sex was only used for publicity and it was used in a vulgar way. (watch Palpalma here)
I think, history is repeating in case of ‘Chapali Height‘ too. In the case of both movies, small group of people liked the movie and the majority didn’t.
Nepali Short Movie – Mars and Venus
Direction, and editing – Aashiq Regmi
Production design, screenplay and writer – Amit Aryal
Starring – Rajani Aryal, Amit Aryal
Music – Arun Gupta, Gurpreet sharma
Graphics Design – Amit Baral
Production assistant & special appearance – Deepa Ghimire
Note: Pre-release review of Chapali Height covers general information and other details.
With a lot of controversies and publicity from sexually aggressive posters and promos, Chapali Height is released all over major theaters in Nepal. The third directorial venture of Dipendra K Khanal and second movie produced by Arjun Kumar, Chapali Height, has a story of sex for adult audience. Hence, it has received an Adult certificate from the censor board of Nepal.
Story:
Chapali Height is a story of Amir (Amir Gautam) , Bineeta (Binita Baral) and Raj (Raj Ghimire). Amir and Bineeta come from Pokhara to live in Raj’s house at Chapali Height where he is living alone. After spending some time there, relationship between Amir and Bineeta becomes sour and an accident commences the main story of the movie. Its better to Keep the details of the accident, and the suspense that follows, a secret so that your movie experience is not ruined when you watch the movie in theatre.
Comedy serial – Left Right Left
Starring – Madan Krishna Shrestha, Hari Bansha Acharya , Shivahari Poudel etc.
Concept / Direction – MaHa
Writer – Pradeep Bhattarai
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