Movie Review – Kathmandu

Background

Thousands of people enter Kathmandu, the capital, from different parts of Nepal for the search of opportunities and fulfill their dreams. At the same time, many leave to tend their wounds when their dreams get shattered. Akash Adhikari’s movie, "Kathmandu", released today in Kathmandu, the city, is based on such types of different dreams, different problems, and varieties of people.

Story

The movie, "Kathmandu", is made on the story a character, Aryan Rana (played by Akash Adhikari) who comes back to Nepal from USA after completing his study of film making. He competes in Nepal to get an opportunity to make movie and during his struggle, he faces different problems, typical of Kathmandu. Although he tries to fight with every problems, a problems in his family forced him to return back to the USA.  Apart from the family problem, "Kathmandu" tries to portrays problems in teens caused by the misunderstanding between their parents. Drugs abuse in teens and problems in them caused by the carelessness of their parents. The movie also deals with the problems of street children, problems of youth, unemployment, negligence of the government, the games played by politicians, and girls being exploited to make indecent movies.

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Marriage problems in Nepali movie sector

UPDATE – 2016:
Simpal Khanal married a UK resident businessman of Pakistani origin. Rekha has legally divorced in August of 2016. Shayam Bhattarai has also gone to the USA (I don’t have any information if Shyam has met Ranjana Sharma there).

UPDATE: November 2014:

2012 – Actress Rekha Thapa ended her 10-years-long marriage by divorcing Chhabi Raj Ojha. Rekha is having affair with Sudarshan Gautam and Chhabi has high hopes to marry Shilpa Pokharel. (report of Rekha’s divorce, Chhabi talking about his interest on Shilpa Pokharel, and Sudarshan talking about marrying Rekha Thapa.)

2012 – Actress Priyanka Karki‘s marriage with Rochak Mainali didn’t last more that two years. The Miss Teen 2005 revealed about the divorce in 2013, after a year of the event (more about Rochak and Priyanka’s divorce).

2014 – Suleman Shankar (Iku) divorced his wife of 5 years Jaya KC (report on Iku’s divorce).

Saranga Shrestha – Saranga married a US citizen and divorced. She is currently married to a young Nepali guy, Ramesh, living in the USA. Saranga and Ramesh have a daughter.

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Divorce in Nepali movie sector has become a common happening these days. Divorce brings in pain and problems and doesn’t come easy for both the parties involved. The traditional Nepali society has made it even worse in terms of setting a ‘bad example’ in the society.

Let’s analyze some of the high profile problems in marriages of the personalities of Nepali movie industry:

Bhuwan KC / Sushmita KC  – Bhuwan KC is known for his affairs with various ladies.  Bhuwan KC’s first marriage with Bijaya KC ended when Bijaya went to USA with their kids. Bhuwan found Sushmita KC as his second wife. That too didn’t lasted long and they ‘divorced’ until they reunited again after the release of “Ma Timi Bina Marihalchu”. But, they have divorced again. Bhuwan’s affair with Sharmila Dangol didn’t go far and he is living alone these days. We won’t be surprised if Bhuwan and Sushmita get together after the release of ‘Sathi Ma Timro’ as predicted by friends in Films Nepal. (update- they didn’t get together, but there is rumor that Bhuwan is having an affair with Jiya KC)

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Nepali Movie – Ek Din Ek Raat (2011)

First Nepali horror movie made with supernatural concept. A Nirmal Ratna Shakya presentation:
Nepali Movie: Ek Din Ek Raat (2011)
StarringVinay Shrestha, Diya Maskey, Anup Baral, Karma, Pooja Lama, Menuka Pradhan, Gauri Malla and BS Thapa (special Appearance) etc.
Story / Director – Dev Kumar Shrestha
Nepali Movie – Ek Din Ek Raat

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Nepali Movie – Nata

Nepali Movie – Nata
StarringBhuwan KC, Shree Krishna Shrestha, Ashok Sharma, Gauri Malla, Geetanjali etc.
DirectorBishow Basnet

‘Nata’ is the debut movie of actor Bishow Basnet as a director. Actor Shree Krishna Shrestha debuted in the movie as an actor. The film is the first presentation of Tract Movie Makers’ and produced by Chhabi Raj Ojha.

The movie was a huge success. Chhabi took it off the theaters after it ran for 97 days. He didn’t want it to run through 100 days because of the cost involved in the 100-days celebration and other stuffs. Chhabi’s wife Geetanjali is also featured in the movie. She later committed suicide. After her death, Chhabi married actress Rekha Thapa.
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Nepali Movie – Jangbaaz (2009)

Nepali Film – Jangbaaz
StarringRajesh Hamal, Gauri Malla, Rushma Rai, Sunil Thapa, Ashok Sharma, Yuvaraj Lama etc.
Director – Shovit Basnet

The movie ‘Jangbaaz’ is a presentation of Salon Film, by the son of the director Salon Basnet. A child son of Shovit, Salon, was just named the producer. He is later featured as a actor in ‘Hostel’ and other movies.
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Nepali Movie – Dharma Sankat

Nepali movie – Dharma Sankat
Starring – Shiva Shrestha, Gauri Malla, Jharana Thapa, Ramesh Upreti, Sunil Thapa, Narayan Tripathi, Laxmi giri, Kishore Malakar, Bipana Thapa, etc.
Director – Resh Raj Acharya

The Nepali movie ‘Dharma Sankat’ is the presention of Sunil Kumar Thapa, husband of actress Jharana Thapa. The debut movie of the couple was successful, leading to other movies by Jharana and Sunil. The story of the movie is written by Sunil Kumar Thapa and Jharana is named the producer of the movie. The director, Resh Raj Acharya, has written the script and dialogue of the movie.
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Nepali movie – Kanyadaan

Nepali Movie – Kanyadaan
StarringBhuwan KC, Gauri Malla, Rabi Shah, Subhadra Adhikari, Gopal Raj Mainali, Basundhara Bhusal, Laxmi Giri, Muralidhar etc.
DirectorPrakash Thapa

This is the original ‘Kanyadaan’. There is another Nepali movie by the same name – Kanyadaan (2011), released in 2011.

This is a film about child marriage in Nepal presented by Samjhana Films.
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Nepali Movie – Basanti

Nepali Movie – Basanti
Starring – Karishma Manandhar, Rajesh Hamal, Gauri Malla, Ashok Sharma etc.
Director – Nir Shah

A presentation fo New Century Pictures, Nepali movie ‘Basanti’ is based on Diamond Shumser Rana’s novel “Basanti”. The movie features top actors in Nepali film industry. The director, Nir Shah, himself had produced this movie. The actor Rajesh Hamal has told that ‘Basanti’ is one of his favorite movies. The movie is set in an ancient time – featuring the high class lifestyle of Rana people. This is one of the few movies that were made on the story of a popular book and became successful as a movie too. Encouraged by the success of this movie, Nir Shah had recently produced a movie based on another novel of Diamond Shumser, ‘Seto Bagh’. Despite of huge publicity and awaiting, the new movie however failed to impress the viewers.
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