The film award being distributed by Gopi Krishna Movies, NFDC National Film Award 2016 nomination was released in a program held in Kathmandu. The Award ceremony will be held in Ashoj. It’s interesting two movies released on the same day – ‘Premgeet’ and ‘Classic’ were nominated in the most number of awards – 11 categories each. ‘Pashupati Prasad’ and ‘Woda Number 6’ each were nominated in 8 different categories and ‘Kabaddi Kabaddi’ was nominated in 7 categories.
Although there used to be various awards for Nepali music, a new category of award has emerged – Music video award. To evaluate the technicians and artists in the newly emerging field, award nominations for the new Music Video Award has been released. The award will be awarded in three categories, namely:
Category A – Music – Best Vocal (Male and Female), Best Vocal Pop (Male and Female), Best Lyrics, Best Music, Best Arrangement and Best Lok Dohori
Category B – Video – Music Video, Video Director, Actor, Actress, Choreography, cameraperson, editor
Category C – Special – Music Video(Diaspora), National Feeling, New Talent, Trend Setter, Special contribution
Nepali movie released on October 25, 2013, ‘Madhumas’ is produced by the director Sudarshan Thapa with Baburam Dahal. I had previously written a pre-release review of ‘Madhumash’ but couldn’t do the full review at the time of it’s release. For the promotion of the movie, the actor Aryan Sigdel was also featured in comedy serial ‘Tito Satya’. The love story movie was nominated in a number of awards including NFDC Award and Kamana Film Awards.
The premier show of ‘Prem Geet’ was held in Jaya Nepal theater on Wednesday, February 10, evening. The director of hit movie ‘Mero Euta Sathi Chha’, Sudarshan Thapa, was appreciated by the viewers of the movie. In the premier show, artists of the film, film makers, directors and other film artists were present at Jaya Nepal.
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After the show, most of the participants have told that they liked the movie. Well known film makers Chhabi Raj Ojha and Bikash Acharya had also told that they appreciated the direction of Sudarshan Thapa.
The Nepali movie ‘Chankhe Shankha Pankhe’ was released in theater on September 25, 2015. The movie featuring Sudarshan Thapa in leading role is also produced and directed by himself with producer Santosh Sen Thakuri. The movie was previously scheduled to release on May 15. But, because of April 25 earthquake, the release date was postponed. The movie was highly promoted in various avenues including some Indian websites.
It seems, a lot of Nepali actresses want to be more than bathroom singers. This week two three Nepali actresses released a musical single each and Gauri Malla also sang Nepali and Hindi songs in a New Year celebration program.
Priyanka Karki has released a song titled ‘Swotantra’. A well cinematographed music video features Priyanka in hot avatar, in bikini. Priyanka is the director, model and the voice in the music video. This is not the first time Priyanka had released songs in her voice. She had given voice to the title song of the movie ‘Aawaran’ featuring Yama Buddha. After that, she had also released a music video of the popular song of Bachchu Kailash – ‘Timle Ta Hoina Mera …’. The current release ‘Swotantra’ can be considered the first original solo of Priyanka.
UPDATE 1 : Photos of Bhai Tika of Rajesh Hamal, Dilip Rayamajhi, Jal Shah, Namrata Shrestha, Nisha Sunar are added.
The second biggest festival in Nepal after Dashain, Tihar has been wrapped up on Friday November 13. The last day of Tihar – Bhai Tika is celebrated by brothers and sisters to show their love and dedication to each other. On the occasion, despite of economic blockade from India, people have followed the tradition. Update
The beauty of Bhai Tika is that people make new brothers and sisters during the festival. For example, Takme Budha (Wilson Bikram Rai) and Ashma DC and Sanyukta Puri, Jal Shah and Bikrant Basnet, Nisha Sunar and Suman Budha Magar, Naresh Bhattarai and Sapana Chamling Rai became new brothers/sisters this year.
Singer, journalist and actress Komal Oli made this year’s Bhai Tika memorable by presenting 2-litres petrol to each of her brothers. At the time of petrol-crisis in Nepal, that would certainly made the happiest brothers.
Comedy actress Palpasa Dangol, popularly known as Chamsuri has urine infection and was rushed to emergency room in Teaching Hospital right before Bhai Tika. As she had to be treated in the hospital, her brothers visited Dangol in hospital bed to take Bhai Tika. Palpasa has told that that was one of the most memorable Bhai Tika in her life.
The ‘Chankhe Shankhe Pankhe’ film unit was on its way to take earthquake relief materials to Selang Bari of Sindhupalanchowk, the birthplace of director Nischal Basnet. But, the locals in Bhote Selang, about one kilometer before the destination have snatched all of it. Although they were also the earthquake victims, the film unit has expressed its sadness on being unable to reach the destination.
According to the film director Sudarshan Thapa, Bhote Selang has about 30 houses and the government had distributed about 20 sacks of rice before their materials were snatched by the residents. The locals had mistakenly thought the film unit’s material was the government assistance. Sudarshan has told that they had relief materials costing around Rs. 400,000.
To participate in the premier show of ‘Chankhe Shankhe Pankhe’ on April 17, the film production team has arrived in Bahrain on April 16. The team comprising of the actress Pooja Sharma, producer Santosh Sen, and the director Sudarshan Thapa.
The movie told to be the most costly movie to make in 2071 BS, will be released in Nepal on May 15. The Censor Board has awarded PG certificate to the movie.
Here are the songs of upcoming new movie ‘Chankhe Shankhe Pankhe’. The first movie of Asusen Films, is produced by Sontesh Sen. The movie is directed by Sudarshan Thapa. Sudarshan is known for his directing some successful movies like ‘Mero Euta Sathi Chha’ (click to watch ‘Mero Euta Sathi Chha’), Madhumash (click here to watch ‘Madhumash’), Dhanda (click here to watch ‘Dhanda’).
Actor, producer and director Sudarshan Thapa has announced the production of two new Nepali movies in association with his partner Santosh Sen in a press meet organized in Kathmandu on April 2, 2015. The movie titled ‘Premgeet’ is a romantic love story movie featuring actress Pooja Sharma in leading role. Another movie titled ‘Meera’ will feature a new face in the leading role.
‘Chankeh Sankhe Pankhe’ trailer release
The announcement was made at the event organized to release the trailer of upcoming movie ‘Chankeh Sankhe Pankhe’. The artists of the film, Nepali film industry personalities and journalists were invited in the event. The shooting of the new movies will start after two months of the release of ‘Chankeh Sankhe Pankhe’. The movie is releasing on Jestha 1 (May 15, 2015).
The production team of ‘Chankhe Shankhe Pankhe’ have announced the release date of the movie for Jestha 1 (May 15, 2015).
Before the release in Nepal, the team will take the movie to premier in Bahrain on April 17. In addition to that, a charity show of the movie will also be held in Syangja.
This Friday, on February 27, two new movies are releasing – ‘Ajhai Pani’ and ‘Mission Paisa Reloaded’. The last film of the late director Alok Nembang, ‘Ajhai Pani’ was premiered three days before the release among film artists and journalists.
Mission Paisa 2 Reloaded
The sequel of the movie ‘Mission Paisa’ (watch the original ‘Mission Paisa’) is an action comedy movie by director Simosh Sunuwar. The movie features Nisha Adhikari, Amir Gautam, Resh Marahatta and Harshika Shrestha in leading role. The script of the film is written by Prachanda Man Shrestha and is jointly produced by madhav Wagle and Narendra Maharjan. The censor board has awarded a PG certificate to the film.
Two highly awaited movies, ‘Mero Best Friend’ and ‘Hasiya’ are releasing in theater on May 23, 2014. One of them is the debut movie of Priyanka Karki and another also features Priyanka as an item girl.
Hasiya
The action themed movie ‘Hasiya’ features actress Hema Shrestha in fully action role. The female oriented movie is produced by Milan Chams. With Hema superstar Rajesh Hamal is also featured in lead role in the movie. Other notable actors in the movie are Miss Nepal 1994, Ruby Rana and Anup Bikram Shahi. The movie was recently premiered in UK. The viewers in the UK had termed the movie of being of international standard.
