NFDC National Film Award 2016 nominations

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.

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nfdc 2016 award nominations

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Friday Release – Lukamari

This week, on June 24, 2016, Nepali movie ‘Lukamari’ is the solo release. The movie on the story of a tenant in a Kathmandu home, ‘Lukamari’ is a suspense comedy movie. The actor Saugat Malla is featured in the role of a Madhesi guy. Actor Karma Shakya is featured in the role of the son of the home owner. Actress Surabina Karki is featured in the role of another tenant.

The appearance of Saugat Malla and Karma had been popular even before the release of the movie. Saugat is featured as a Madheshi youth with crooked eyes and Karma is a typical Newar guy of Kathmandu and he has yellow hair. The movie directed by Shree Ram Dahal features Saugat Malla with Bikram Singh Tharu, Karma Shakya, Surabina Karki, Rista Basnet, Krishna Bhakta Maharjan and others.
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Arpan Thapa, Saugat Malla film, Dying Candle wins an Intl Film Festival award

Nepali movie ‘Dying Candle’ has won an award at the sixth Queens World Film Festival, held in New York, USA. The movie was awarded Best Cinematography in a Feature award in the award ceremony held on March 19, 2016. The cinematographers of the movie were Rabin Acharya and Dipankar Sikder. Sikder is an Indian cinematographer.

The movie directed by Naresh Kumar KC, ‘Dying Candle’ was nominated in three categories including Best Actress In a Feature Award, Best Feature Narrative Award and Best Cinematography Award.

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Nepali Movie – Kabaddi Kabaddi

Nepali Movie – Kabaddi Kabaddi
StarringDayahang Rai, Saugat Malla, Rishma Gurung, Bijaya Baral, Buddhi Tamang etc.
Director – Ram Babu Gurung

A presentation of Black Horse Pictures and a production of Cinema Arts, Nepali movie ‘Kabaddi Kabaddi’ is the sequel of hit movie ‘Kabaddi’. Like the previous part, this part is also set in Naurikot Village in Mustang – about 400km away from Kathmandu. The story of this movie is set in the time one year after the events in the first sequel. The executive producer of the movie is Nischal Basnet. Nishchal Basnet has also given voice to one of the songs in the movie. ‘Kabaddi Kabaddi’ was released on November 27 2015. Nischal Basnet and Priyanka Karki are featured in cameo roles in the movie.

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Friday Release – Fanko and Kafal Pakyo (with trailers)

This week on January 15, 2016 two new Nepali movies are releasing in theater. Both the movies – director Sabitri Khatri’s ‘Kafal Pakyo’ and Suwarna Thapa’s movie ‘Fanko’ were highly publicized movies. Both the movies were shown to the Nepali viewers in foreign countries before their official release. The movies are being released on Magh 1, the Makar Sakranti festival in Nepal.

Kafal Pakyo

The movie ‘Kafal Pakyo’ features Jiwan Luitel, Barsha Raut, Mukesh Acharya, Laya Sangarula and Uttam KC in leading roles. The movie directed by Sabitri Khatri features the music of Bikash Chaudhary, script of Pradeep Bhardwoj and is made under Red Panda banner.

The movie is made on comedy theme. The movie shows the travel from Kathmandu to Gulmi in romantic way. The Actor Jiwan is featured as a village guy and actress Barsha Raut is featured as a modern tom-boy. The relationship between the two is the whole movie.

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Nepali Movie – Sadanga

Nepali Movie – Sadanga
StarringSaugat Malla, Priyanka Karki, Sauram Raj Tuladhar, A Gurung, Anup Baral, Bijaya Lama, Harshika Shrestha,  etc.
Director – Suraj Sunuwar

The Nepali movie ‘Sadanga’ was released in March of 2015.The movie is a presentation of Luminous Pictures banner.  The movie is made on a gangster story in which the role of actor Saugat Malla was appreciated by everybody. The movie is produced by Samir Sunuwar and written by the director Suraj Sunuwar. Actress Harshika is featured in a special appearance role.

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Fanko premier held in Kathmandu, Priyanka shows off her body in transparent dress

The red carpet premier of Nepali movie ‘Fanko’ was held on Wednesday, January 13 in Kumari theater in Kathmandu. In the event, the cast and the crew members of the movie joined the guests to watch the movie.

The movie has been highly promoted and a few premiers were done in some cities in Europe earlier. The movie directed by Suwarna Thapa is produced by Narendra Maharjan, Sahadev Gautam and Padma Gurung. The movie featured Priyanka Karki, Dayahang Rai, Keki Adhikari, Saugat Malla and Anup Baral in lead roles. The movie is made on the story of characters of living in highway for money.

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Sanrakshan to feature Nikhil Upreti ad Saugat Malla in Ramesh Kharel story

A new movie titled ‘Sanrakshan’ is going to feature actors Nikhil Upreti and Saugat Malla as police officers. The movie also features Ashishma Nakarmi and Malina Joshi in leading roles. The movie is being directed by Punendra Kumar Jha. Pradeep Uday, Narendra Maharjan, Sweta Shah and Nandu Shreevastav have invested in the movie.

The movie features the cinematography of Purushottam Pradhan, editing of Nimesh Shrestha, action of Himal KC, choreography of Basanta Sapkota and the music of Prabesh Mallik. Other main actors in the movie are Ramesh Ranjan Jha, Pramod Agrahari, Sushanta Shrestha, Nandu Shreevastav and Pawan Mhato.

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Dying Candle, Nibhna Lageko Diyo, an introduction

A friend in Twitter asked if I had heard of the movie ‘Dyning Candle’ or ‘Nibhna Lageko Diyo’ in Nepali language. I hadn’t. But, I did a quick search and loved the trailer available in IMDB website (trailer is embedded at the end). The movie set in a remote location seems to be the story of a loving sister and her varied emotions towards her brother and others. I am writing about all the stuffs I could gather from the trailer and the information available online. There is no definitive release date of the movie as the post production and re-shooting seem to be going on.

The movie ‘Dying Candle’ is written and directed by Naresh Kumar KC. The original screenplay was 145 pages at the time of the start shooting. But, first 88 pages completed the movie although the ending was an unplanned one. The crew lived in the remote village for 45 days to complete the shooting. Every food item except potato had to be imported from Kathmandu. So the crew had mostly to live on potato throughout the shooting.

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A special show of Sadanga held on Friday, released all over Nepal

On the day of release, a special show of the movie ‘Sadanga’ was held for film artists, producers, directors and journalists. The artists of the movie Priyanka Karki, Sauramraj Tuladhar, A Gurung and director Suraj Sunuwar were present in the special show.

After watching the movie made on a gangster story, the role of Saugat Malla was appreciated by everybody. Saugat has effectively added the life to the character he is featured in. The glamour image of Priyanka Karki in the movie was also appreciated by the viewers. The movie is expected to appeal the viewers of the multiplex cinema in Kathamndu. The viewers of Kathmandu have liked the movie and appreciated the effort of the whole team.

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Nepali Movie – Badhshala

Nepali Movie – Badhshala
Starring – Anup Baral, Arpan Thapa, Saugat Malla, Dayahang Rai, Sarita Giri, Samuna KC etc.
Director – Manoj Pandit

A presentation of Smashing Apple, ‘Badhshala’ is a film on the torture of Maoist combatants at Bhairavnath barrack of Nepal Army. Released on April 19, 2013, ‘Badhshala’ went through a political controversy after being banned by Nepal Army. The film makers went to street to protest the unjust banning of the movie citing March 8 as the black Friday.

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Nepali Movie – Fitkiree

Nepali Film – Fitkiree
StarringSaugat Malla, Diya Maskey, Nischal Basnet, Anup Baral etc.
Director – Anup Baral

The film ‘Fitkiree’ is the debut movie of Anup Baral as a director. The film written by Yangesh is categories as a crime thriller film. The director Anup Baral married actress Diya Maskey after the release of the film. The film is a presentation of Mega Entertainment.

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Nepali Movie – Saurya

Nepali Film – Saurya – Rise of Hero
Starring, Saugat Malla, Hema Shrestha, Anup Bikram Shahi, Ravi Basnet, Puskar Bhatt etc.
Director – Markanday Dipbim Basnet

The action movie by Hakim Entertaimnet, ‘Saurya’ with sub-title Rise of Hero is a 2.5 hours long movie. The movie features the screenplay of Subash Singh Basnet / Markanday Dipbim Basnet, cinematography of Rameshowr Karki, Editing of Chandra Dutta / Bishal Koirala, action of Shankar Maharjan and produced by Surendra Gurung ‘Hakim’. The movie is the debut movie of Hema Shrestha (Hema Shrestha profile in NepaliActress) and Anup Bikram Shahi.

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