Last week, actress Rekha Thapa was promoting her latest release ‘Kali‘ in ‘Meri Bassai’. This week, actor Aryan Sigdel is going to be promoting his new release, ‘Madhumash’ in another comedy serial ‘Tito Satya’. ‘Madhumash’ is releasing in theaters on October 25, 2013.

Aryan will be featured in two episodes of the popular comedy serial in Nepal Television. In the past, other actors like Rajesh Hamal, Prashant Tamang, Bhuwan KC, Keki Adhikari etc. had also appeared in television screen to promote their big screen movies.

Aryan Sigdel says that the television screen is one of the most effective medium to reach to the viewers. (Photo credit – Nirmal Sharma)

After being removed from the candidate list, actor Bhuwan KC has released a press statement about his future direction. In the statement the CPN UML member and actor told that he will remain faithful to the party and support it in the election.

Right after Bhuwan was selected to represent the party in the election, the party members had started to protest his candidacy resulting on the withdrawal of his name from the election candidates. Before that, he had implied that he would join the rival RPP party if he wasn’t made a candidate in the election. Although the political move had convinced the leaders to offer him candidacy only to be withdrawn within a day of it’s publication.

  

Another Nepali film artist, Rekha Thapa, went through the similar situation when she realized that her name was not in the voter’s list in Parsa.

After protests from the party workers, Bhuwan KC was removed from the CPN UML election candidate list. Although he was stated to represent party in Kathmandu constituency 1 in the initial list, he was removed after protest. In the final list, Bidhya Neupane will represent the party in the constituency.

In the similar manner, actress Rekha Thapa was also removed from the final candidate list of the CPN Maoist. When Rekha’s attempt to get ticket in Kathmandu failed, she was successful in getting the recommendation from Parsa district. But, in the final list she was replaced by Baliram Shah in Parsa 1 constituency.

A lot of artists had joined party politics in hopes of active participation. But, after these incidents, interests of artists in party politics is sure to wane. Artists have a huge public backing and ignoring them in election can have counter productive outcomes.

The real impact of these incidents will however be seen only after the election.

Actor Bhuwan KC had joined party politics in hopes to win in an election and start his political career. Bhuwan has used all political tactics to win the CPN UML nomination.

In the nomination list of UML released on October 1, Bhuwan KC is named the candidate in Kathmandu 1 constituency.

Earlier, when he was not in the shortlist of the nomination, he publicly announced about joining rival RPP Party. At that time, Bidur Mainali was recommended to represent the party in Kathmandu 1. But, Bhuwan’s strategy worked and he succeeded in getting the nomination.

Bhuwan KC’s opposition in the election are CPN Maoist’s Renu Dahal (the daughter of Prachanda), Congress leader Prakashman Singh and RPP leader Bharat Jangam.

Actor Bhuwan KC announced the making of the sequel of his movie ‘Karodpati’ named ‘Karodpati 2′ on his birthday. The movie will feature his son Anmol KC in the leading role.

After the success of ‘Hostel’ Anmol has raised in popularity among youngsters and is viewed as a next superstar in Nepali movie industry. Bhuwan has written the script of the movie with his son in his mind. Bhuwan says that the movie will go on floor after Dashain.

‘Karodpati 2′ will be the seventh movie of Bhuwan’s home production company, Kajol Films. He told that the movie will feature two actresses but he didn’t reveal the names of the leading actresses. The movie will also feature Bhuwan as a director for the first time.

Nepali movie ‘Hostel’ was released on August 30 in theaters all over Nepal. The movie is produced by Sunil Rawal under Durgish Films. The movie features the friendship of three characters played by Anmol KC, Salon Basnet and Gaurav Pahadi. Actresses Rista Basnet and Prakriti Shrestha are also featured in important characters in the movie. Although the movie is advertised as a college love story, it is more about friendship and relationships. The movie is directed by Hemraj BC.

 

The movie is the story of Aditya Bikram Rana (Anmol KC), Junge (Salon Basnet) and Shree (Gaurav Pahadi) – three medical college students living in a hostel. Aditya is from a rich family, Junge is from a medium income family and Shree’s background is not clear in the movie. They go through every ups and downs a young student goes through hostel life. There is love, tragedy, betrayal, friendship, family relationship, classroom, hostel warden and so on.

The producer of ‘Hostel’ Sunil Rawal was successful in winning the hearts of viewers in his debut movie ‘Saayad‘. Based on the the initial crowd in the theaters, ‘Hostel’ is going to be much more successful than his previous movie. In addition to producing good movies, he is also known to debut new talents in Nepali film industry. He introduced Samyam Puri, the son director Narayan Puri in the last movie. In his second movie he experimented in a huge way by introducing some high profile star sons and daughters in ‘Hostel’.

Although Anmol Kc, the son of actor Bhuwan KC, was featured in a very short role in ‘Sathi Ma Timro‘, ‘Hostel’ is his debut movie in leading role. With the success of the movie, Anmol is believed to be the next big star in the Nepali movie industry. In the movie, Anmol is featured as a son of a rich father and is the central character in the movie. He is a bit disconnected with his family, often ignoring his mother’s call.

Salon Basnet, the son of actor/director Shovit Basnet is featured as a student from a medium class family. The family had to borrow money to pay for his tuition. He is careless of his study and is humorous in the movie. In the first half of the movie Salon gets a lot of focus in an entertaining way. In the past, Salon had worked as child actor in a lot of movies and he had also acted in ‘Janzeer’.

The role of Gaurav Pahadi, the son of actor Tika Pahadi, is not that well defined. He is featured in a serious character. Gaurav had debuted as the lead actor in ‘Manjari’.

The movie is strong in portraying the life of college going youth, their hardships and problems in an entertaining way. The attempt to present the college life is a challenge the director has fulfilled successfully. The youth actors have done a very good in portraying the characters they represent. The movie is going to liked by youth as some might see themselves in one of the characters in the movie.

The weakest point in the movie is the script or the presentation of the story. Unrealistic scenes like the MBBS students get to wear stethoscope on the first day of college, or unrealistic dialogues, lack of coordination between the dialogue and actions are some of the things the director has overlooked.

If you have ever been through a college life, there might be something entertaining in the movie to go for. ‘Hostel’ is an entertaining relief in a long list of failures. It has a potential to be successful in spite of some weakness.

I recommend going to the movie for entertainment although I wish, the script were written in better manner.