The overflow of crappy movies recently has kept me away even from Nepali Cinesansar. Anyway, upon constant request of the director Pradeep Shrestha, I had to watch last friday release – ‘Sapana’, starring Nandita K.C., Rajesh Hamal, Arjun Karki, Sunil Dutt and Aryan Sigdel in lead roles. Before I stepped into the theater with complimentary tickets, I...

  When Rajesh Hamal & Sumina came to the premier of Dulahi like a real-life newly wed couple, audience were stunned. Later it was found out it was nothing but another gimmick to attract press and fans to promote absolutely hallow cinema titled – Dulahi. Sorry for the strong words but after wasting your money and time on the premiere you don’t expect to...

It was time once again for Gopi Krishna Movies (GKM) to celebrate as their much awaited film Pal: Moments in Life was being premiered at GKM on May 17. The journey of Pal, a film written by entrepreneur cum writer Karna Shakya, boasts of an original story line. Krishnaman (Ramesh Budathoki) is a Constituent Assembly member, who under the pressure of his wife Champa (Tripti...

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration calling 2067 a dud year for Nepali Movie Industry. Out of 75 movies released around the nation, only 6 of them were able to place them as commercially successful. Political turmoil, lack of investment oppurtunity, high inflation, bleak security might be some of the reasons for the failure of those movies but the prime and most important...

In recent times there are some movies which try to take road never taken by; like Batch No. 16, Sick City, Swor, etc. Its different things some of them didn’t work at box office, some panned badly by the critics but at least gen-next director are trying something that they want to make movie upon, not just for the front benchers. Unfortunately, the movie this week...

For a change, a Nepali film’s premiere at the QFX Cinema Hall had a different line of audiences. A majority of people who turned up for the premiere of the much talked flick Batch No 16 were not those who are often spotted at turnstiles. Directed by Pitamber Pandey and produced by Bikrant Shrestha and Surendra Poudel, the flick had drawn an unbelievably huge turn out. Any...

After good response from outside the valley Swor, starring Raj Ballav Koirala hit the screens this week within the valley. Directed by debutant director Prasanna Poudel, who had already made hundreds of music videos, Swor – The Melody Of Dreams is a musical journey of youth which seems to be loosely inspired from Bollywoodd hit ‘Rock On’. Fresh faces...

With the lawn of the Jai Nepal Cinema Hall filled with well-wishers, promoters, distributors, the crew and actors of “Ek Dik Ek Raat”, casting director of the film and one of the lead actors – Anup Baral – looked both anxious and confident. Busy handing over the invitation cards to the guests, it was another big day for Baral after the success of “Dasdhunga”,...

When every tom, sam and rammy starts making movies, what can you expect from them. Specially, when not so happening actor cum director Dinesh D.C. makes the sex-convicted notorious Prakash Ojha as goody goody naive millionaire bumpkin lead actor ? Is movie making business actually flourishing so much that you can serve anything you like and you can make money out of it? With...

After super success of Dhadkan, Naresh Paudel comes with highly ambitious project ‘Deepshikha‘ starring Arunima Lamsal, Niraj Baral, Jiwan Luitel in major roles. Deep Shikha is a journey of a dreamy girl in search of her knight in the shinning armor. A simple boy meets girl story turns into love triangle after introduction of another actor in the story. Scripted...