Movie Review – Apabad

Also visitPre-release review of ‘Apabad’.

One of the most awaited Nepali movies of this season, ‘Apabad’ was finally got released in Nepal on Friday, June 15, 2012. After the successful releases abroad, the directorial debut of Subash Koirala was finally released inside Nepal. The movie features Raj Ballav Koirala and Nisha Adhikari in a lead roles.

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Story

Apabad is a story of Suyog who dreams to be a writer of a novel. Being a student of business, his father however wants him to start a job in a bank and start making good sum of money. One of his best friend and one-sided love, Sunanda, had the similar suggestion to him. But, he his desire to be a writer and making a career as a novel writer prevails and he decided to oppose his father’s dream of making him a banker. Suyog wanted to go to the UK to study but, he later found that the college he enrolled was one of the blacklisted colleges. The overwhelming frustration caused him to try suicide by jumping into a river. After he jumped into the river, he was washed to a bank where there aren’t any people in the nearby vicinity. Away from technology and the crowd, he was left to do whatever he likes. To know, what happen to Suyog, his suicide attempt, and the budding writer within him it is worthwhile to visit the theater and know first-hand.

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Nepali Movie – Apabad (pre-release review)

Nepali movie ‘Apabad’ is released on  June 15, 2012. The movie directed by Subash Koirala features Raj Ballav Koirala, Nisha Adhikari, Rabi Giri, and Bijaya Giri in leading roles.

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The movie features the cinematoraphy of Sushan Prajapati, music direction of Ujjwal Meghi Gurung, editing of Raju Dhungana, story/script of Subash Koirala, and dialogue of  Subash Koirala, Ujjawal Meghi, Shekhar Gyawali and Upendra Lamichhane.

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Movie Review – Phool

Nepali movie Phool is released all over Nepal on May 4, 2012. We had posted a pre-release review of ‘Phool’ earlier.

Featuring a lot of big star casts, New Nepali film ‘Phool’ is released all over Nepal. ‘Phool’ is the directorial venture of Shiva Regmi, popular of directing entertaining and emotional movies. ‘Phool’ features Raj Ballav Koirala, Niraj Baral, Garima Pant, Nir Shah and Yuvaraj Lama in leading roles.

Story:

‘Phool’ is a story of two army officers Dorje Lama and Birdhoj Karki. Both dream of getting married and living happily in a small house. Both of them both fell in love with a owner of a hotel, named Maya. Maya promised to marry both of them but eventually, she elopes with someone else. The frustrated two decided not to marry in their lives. In a temple of Hanuman, Dorje and Birodhoj found a new born child and took the child home as a God gift. The child Ashmi (played by Garima Pant) grows up to become a beautiful young girl.  Attracted to the beauty of Ashmi, two boys, Rahul (Niraj baral) and Avisekh (Raj Ballav Koirala), start chasing her. There is a twist in the story in the movie when Ashmi, Rahul and Avisekh met an unknown women. You need to go to theatre to get all these answers.

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Nepali Movie – Phool, Pre-release review

Nepali movie ‘Phool’ is releasing on  May 4, 2012. The movie directed by Shiva Regmi features Raj Ballav Koirala, Garima Pant, Niraj Baral, Nir Shah, Yuvaraj Lama, and Srijana Basnet in leading roles. The movie features the cinematography of Shambhu Sapkota, music direction of Rekha Paudel, editing of Bipin Malla, story of Shiva Regmi, script of Shiva Regmi and Bikash Acharya, and the dialogue of Shiva Regmi and Bikash Acharya.

Crew Background:

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Nepali Movie – Samjhi Diya Pugchha

UPDATE: Click here for the latest update of the movie.

SP Movie Makers present Suraj Pradhan’s

Nepali Movie – Samjhi Diya Pugchha
StarringRaj Ballav Koirala, Yuna Upreti, Ramesh Adhikari, Rajani Bhatta, Pooja Bhatta etc.
Director
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Dashain Tika of celebrities of Nepali movie industry

Nepali movie crew including the actors and actress were in festive mood in the Dashain. All the shootings were halted for the biggest festival in Nepal. Most of the crew members celebrated with tika and jamara.

Here are some of the highlights of how the film personalities celebrated their Dashain:

Nikhil Upreti and Sanchita Luitel celebrated their first Dashain together with their child as husband and wife.

Rekha Thapa also celebrated her Dashain with her mother.

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Snow Flowers – First Nepali movie to be based on lesbian lovers

A movie to be made on the story of two lesbian lovers, Snow Flowers (Hiuka Phoolharu) was inaugurated on August 17, 2011 in Kathmandu. The movie to be made under Idea and Images banner will be directed by Suwarna Thapa.

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Nepali Movie – Pritiko Phool

2022 UPDATE: The director of the movie Resh Raj Achary has died on February 16, 2022.

Nepali Movie – Pritiko Phool
Starring: Raj Ballav Koirala, Yuna Upreti, Garima Pant, Raja Ram Poudel, Nirmal Sharma, Shiva Shrestha (Guest) etc.
Director – Resh Raj Acharya

A presentation of Abhash Acharya for Gopi Krishna Movies. Produced by Uddav Poudyal, the film ‘Pritiko Phoola’ is made on the story Bijaya Chaudhary. Uddav’s son Nirak Poudel is said to be the Executive Producer of the film. Nirak later debuted as a director of the film ‘Kusume Rumal 2’ and he is planning to direct upcoming film ‘Homework’ featuring Namrata Shrestha and Aryan Sigdel in leading roles. The movie featuring Raj Ballav and Yuna Upreti in leading role also features noted actor Shiva Shrestha in guest role.
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Nir Shah making a movie on Masan by Gopalprasad Rimal

The actor and director Nir Shah has started making an art movie, based on the story of late Gopalprasad Rimal’s story "Masan". Gopal Prasad is a noted poet and playwright who ushered in a new era in Nepali literature. The drama, Masan is also taught as one of the electives in schools in Nepal and India.

The shooting of the movie has started on Ashad 1, 2068. Nir Shah had been preparing the set, representing the old setting of the story, for the movie.

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Movie Reviews – case study of Nepali movie Swor

As I had already talked on previous article about how Nepali reviewers review movies. And I also wrote about how is it done. During the release of the movie Swor, my notion about the irresponsibility of Nepali reviewers proved right.

Different newspapers published reviews of Swor and they tried their best to create to discourage audience not to watch the movie. I am not saying that those reporters did wrong reviews. They were were right in their point of views. They did their best to show all the negative points of the movie.

Most of the reporters were able to point most of the negative points of the movie. My thumbs up to the reporters whose reporting helped the director of the movie, Prasanna Poudel in realizing the weakness of his movie.

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Raj Ballav Koirala – Swor will rule with its simplicity, music, characters and presentation

A radio host, model, and actor Raj Ballav Koirala started his acting career with the movie Parkhi Basen in 2008. The movie was very successful and won him Best Debut Actor in KTV film Awards.

Raunak had a brief conversation with the actor in which, Raj talks about his upcoming movie Swor.

Q. How would you introduce the movie Swor? What is on it?

A. Swor is a musical movie. It is a movie about rising and falling of a dream. Enthusiastically presented and crafted movies full of life and colors that tells a life about a youth and his friends on how they follow their dream as musicians.

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Hasi Deu Ek Phera – Trailer

Nepali Film – Hasi Deu Ek Phera,
Director – Shiva Regmi
Music – Suresh adhikari
Lyrics – Dr Krishna Hari Baral
Producer -  Ramesh Twayana and Rajesh Swangamikha
ArtistHari Bansha Acharya, Madan Krishna Shrestha, Raj Ballav koirala, Sweta Khadka, Mithila Sharma, Shushil Kshetri, Shusil Pokhrel, Kiran KC, Raja Ram Paudel, Keshab Bhattarai, Uttam KC, Bishnu Sapkota, and Siru Bista.

Top Actors in 2066 – Biraj Bhatta acted in most movies

About one third of the movies released this year featured Biraj Bhatta. Out of 35 movies 14 had Biraj as actor. Rajesh Hamal came second with 9 movies in his credits. Nikhil Upreti did 8 movies. 

  1. Biraj Bhatta – 14 moives
  2. Rajesh Hamal – 9 movies
  3. Nikhil Upreti  – 8 movies
  4. Rajballav Koirala – 4 movies
  5. Ramit Dhungana – 4 movies
  6. Aryan Sigdel – 2 movies

Arjun Karki, Suman Singh, and Dilip Rayamajhi were average in the year. Shri Krishna Shrestha acted in only one, but most successful movie of the year, ‘Kaha Bhetiyala’ and is actually the best actor of the year.

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