Nepali actress Rekha Thapa inaugurated the publication of a local bi-weekly, ‘Dodhara Chandani’ newspaper on December 17 at Mahendranagar. Other well-known personalities like Puskar Bhatta and Sudarshan Gautam had jointly unveiled the newspaper.
The news-based newspaper will also cover research based news and view in the local level.
Actress Rekha Thapa is currently in Far Western region of Nepal for the social works under Rekha Thapa Foundation. On Sunday, Rekha was honored at Bal Jagirti College in Mahendranagar. In the college she raised the National flag of Nepal and lighted candle to inaugurate the program.
During the event Rekha Thapa donated Rs. 50,000 on behalf of Rekha Thapa Foundation to support disabled students in the college. The 10+2 college educates a number of disabled students.
While in Hong Kong, Rekha Thapa had announced to support the backward communities like Raute and Chepang. Now, she has converted her words to deeds by meeting the members of the community and supporting them with materials of their daily needs.
Rekha Thapa shows her love for the Raute community
To meet the people of Raute community actress Rekha Thapa had headed towards Surkhet on Friday. Rekha and the Rekha Thapa Foundation members met 52 families of Raute in remote Surkhet. She distributed 52 sacks of rice and some money to the families of the community. The people in the Raute community appreciated Rekha for the community and told that now she has become one of the community member.
During the premier of ‘Kali’ in Hong Kong, Rekha Thapa had announced her desire to start active participation in social work. In the event, Rekha had announce about spending some quality time with Raute children and help the children in their upbringing and education. As per the announcement, actress Rekha Thapa has headed towards Western Nepal, Surkhet on Friday, December 13. She will spend 24 hours in the area.
Rekha is planning to adopt four Raute children in her non-government organization, Rekha Thapa Foundation (RTF), for the upbringing and to provide education. Raute is a primitive community living mainly in forests in the Western Nepal. They mainly live in Surkhet and Mahendranagar area. Rekha will choose four 5 to 9 years old children to give shelter in RTF in Kathmandu.
Well known producer, Chhabi Raj Ojha is releasing his new movie ‘Loafer’ on December 6, 2013. The movie poses both challenge to Chhabi in various aspects. There are a few first times attached to the movie. To name some:
‘Loafer’ :
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The current election is considered to be one of the most important step towards the future of Nepal as a country. For that reason, most of the artists of the Nepali film industry have been actively participating in the election awareness. Most of them have joined one of the many political parties and those who haven’t joined any party are also actively participating in the awareness of people about their voting rights.
Nepali superstar Rajesh Hamal is going to vote in the constituency no. 6 in Kathamndu. He is not affiliated to any party and he is also asking everybody to vote in the election.
Actress Karishma Manandhar is voting at Kathmandu constituency no. 3. Karishma is also one of the few artists who is not a member of any political party. She has also been asking every Nepali to vote the truthful and capable person in the election.
Chhabi Raj Ojha is not only the ex-husband of Rekha Thapa, he is also a very successful producer. He is credited for creating the environment to make Rekha the top actress. Rekha also respect Chhabi as her guardian in the industry.
In a talk to a journalist of a weekly, ‘Saptahik’, Chhabi pointed out some good and bad points of the actress. In this post, we will only quote the good points and will write another post to discuss the bad aspects of the actress.
Here are some highlights of Tihar celebrations of Nepali celebrities.
Actress Namrata Shrestha celebrated Bhai Tika:
Actress Rekha Thapa celebrated Bhai Tika in Morang with two of her brothers and returned back to Kathmandu to offer tika to Kamal Krishna and others.
A group of actresses celebrated Bhailo at Karishma Manandhar‘s home on the occasion of Deepawali on October 3, 2013. Among the actresses were Rekha Thapa and Namrata Shrestha.
The following photos shared by Rekha Thapa shows Namrata, Karishma and Rekha lighting sparkles fire works. The nearness between Namrata and Rekha is considered the new development in the relationship between actresses in Nepali movie industry.
After Dashain, Tihar is the second biggest festival in Nepal. One of the most colorful festivals of all time, Deepawali is celebrated by worshiping the goddess of wealth, Laxmi. Both male and female worship the goddess but women draw rangoli and other colorful arts on floor to invite the goddess in the house. Here are some photos of Nepali actresses who have done the worshiping and celebration of Deepawali.
Actress Namrata Shrestha celebrated Laxmi Puja in her home and at her restaurant – Attic Bar in Lazimpat.
Rekha Thapa doing the Laxmi puja (photo credit – rekhathapa.net).
Actress Karishma Manandhar decorates to celebrate Deepawali (Photo creidt – karishmamanandhar.com):
Actress Rekha Thapa is doing a guest role in ‘Damdar’ with actor Sabin Shrestha. The movie directed by Kamal Krishna will also introduce Shreeram Pudasaini in main role.
In ‘Damdar’ Rekha is featured as a patriotic ex-police officer who was laid-off. The movie produced by Chandra Gautam features action of Chandra Panta. The cinematographer of the movie is Saurabh Lama. The director Kamal Krishna has also written the script and composed the music of the movie.
Nepali actress Rekha Thapa has won the best actress award in HTV Filmykhabar D Cine Award. Rekha was awarded the award for her role in her movie ‘Lanka’. The best actor award was awarded to Jiwan Luitel for his role in ‘Notebook’. In the best movie category, ‘Rhythm’ was awarded the best in the year.
In this year’s award, ‘Maya’s Bar’, ‘Rhythm’ and ‘Notebook’ bagged most of the awards.
The release of Rekha Thapa‘s latest movie ‘Kali‘ posed a lot of threats. Some threats Rekha might have felt are:
Although Rekha’s ‘Kali’ was saved from the competition of Chhabi’s movie ‘Loafer’ it’s couldn’t escape from herself in ‘Damini’. The publicity of the movie paid off and ‘Kali’ remained in theater for more than two weeks.
We posted a big list of photos of Nepali artists celebrating the biggest festival in Nepal, Dashain. We have more photos to share with our readers so, this second update on the Dashain celebration of Nepali artists.
Actress Priyanka Karki wore red Tika and jamara in Qatar. Although away from home, she had a special celebration with actress/singer Komal Oli, actor Rajesh Hamal, actor/pilot Bijaya Lama and others.
Priyanka took tika from Rajesh Hamal:
Dashain is the biggest festival in Nepal. The festival is known for meeting family members, eating, playing and enjoying.
A lot of Nepali are working in foreign land and they can’t go back home in the festival, so some Nepali artists have gone to the foreign lands to make the foreign bound Nepali at home. Our friends at Nepaliactress.com have compiled a list of artist currently participating in various cultural programs abroad. Those celebrities had sacrificed their own festive needs for the entertainment of other fellow Nepali living abroad.
Today, we have compiled some pictorial presentation of Nepali artists celebrating the festival.
Actress Keki Adhikari also celebrated Dashain with her family:
The top actress in Nepali movie industry Rekha Thapa has celebrated Dashain with her ex-husband and the executive producer of ‘Kali‘, Chhabi Raj Ojha and the lead actor of ‘Kali’ Kishor Khatiwada.
