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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Keki Adhikari – ‘you won’t see me in valueless movies’

Newcomer actress, Keki Adhikari, is considered an actress with a lot of potential in the Nepali movie industry. Although, none of her movies are released till date, she has managed to gain a considerable amount of publicity in the media. She made news when she announced of not acting in movies till Swor is released. Her accident in Phewa lake during the shooting of I am Sorry also made headlines in the entertainment segments in newspapers. Our friend Raunak had a brief conversation with the actress about her upcoming movie Swor.

Q. How would you you introduce Swor?

A. Swor is a movie consisting of a totally new taste in the Nepali film industry. It’s a musical movie about the friends of college who forms a band and the movie is about the band and their dreams.

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Q. Tell us about your character in the 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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