Friday, March 30, 2012

Namrata: Rise, Fall & Rise again


Being a celebrity in a movie industry like Nepal’s, is not an easy task. Neither is it worth the time and effort for most, nor does it offer any lucrative incentive. With fame that does not really pay the bills for the lifestyle you embrace; the stardom is artless, somewhat cheap, inelegant and rather short-lived. One reason why the industry sees less “creative” urban yuppies interested in Kollywood (a cheap borrowed version of Bollywood) and a critical mass for an audience, for most here in Kathmandu, it’s not even worth it. Very few take calculated risks and have the courage to bear the brunt of being a star. One is Namrata Shrestha.


And her life is as dramatic as a bad Nepali movie. Or at least the beginning of her career. The month of August 2009 was abuzz with an earful gossip of Namrata’s private sex video, leaked, shocking her newbie fans and supporters of her recently launched career. Few journalists who watched the video callously broke the story in their tabloid, without thinking of any possible unwanted consequences. An actress had committed suicide six years ago over the publishing of her nude photo in one of the weekly tabloids. Many suspected and rumors were afloat that she committed suicide. Most came to the presumptive conclusion that her career was doomed for life, before it even started. Namrata became the talk of the town, but not because of her blossoming career. Her wellwishers were saddened with the whole affair. Her sympathizers stood by her. Most mainstream dailies kept the news out of their priority.

For everyone else, it might have been juicy chatter, but for Namrata, it was her worst nightmare, come true. And the timing could not have been any worse. It happened right after a few days of the release of her second movie “Mero Euta Saathi Chha.” The movie was faring good reviews and people were thronging in to see a somewhat independent movie, which was targeted at Kathmanduites and the urban youth. As she was receiving the waha wahis and syaabash-es from different corners of society, things went spiraling down in her personal life, and that seemed to doom her professional life.

Everyone came up with their own stories, mostly exaggerated or rumored, related to the incident. Some said she died when she went off-the-radar for almost six weeks, while some said she would never again do films.
After almost a year, Namrata says she is “alive,” and “was never gone” and that “life is beautiful.”
Busy shooting Prachanda Man Shrestha’s big-budget debut “Purple Days”, based on a real story, Shrestha shared with Republica, all that she went through during these many months at her restaurant Attic Restro and Bar in Lazimpat.
For someone who was looked upon in the Nepali film industry as a change of guard, whose career was at taking her to make the best of her abilities, that tragic incident took away all that she had worked for in these many years. Formerly a model, a music video actress and a theatre actress, her dreams of making it big in the Nepali movie industry and “changing the way Nepali actresses are viewed” were shattering and her career became that castle of sand by the sea that got swept away by the tide.


“It came to me as a great shock,” she recalled. “Once my private video was out, there were millions of thoughts that went inside my mind ,” Namrata enunciated, remembering those early days after her personal sex tape was released unfortunately. “Definitely, it wasn’t easy to take that lightly. Definitely the road ahead was a tough journey to make”
With the tabloid dailies and weeklies in town printing the footages and publishing the news about her (not to forget blogs with thousands of comment posts), she had millions of thoughts coming to her now and then, leaving her indecisive to do anything. She had thought of calling a press conference, but later changed her mind.

This all happened as she was preparing for her further studies abroad, to study journalism.While all doors of hope were closing before her, surprisingly it was Namrata’s family who stood by her to make her stand on her own again. “If my parents were not there by me, I would not have been able to fight again for my existence,” staring at the attic of the restaurant, she shared.
Those family members of hers who kept on insisting her to fly abroad for her studies until the video scandal, asked her to drop the idea of going abroad and stay back to fight and face the consequences.
For a graduate in journalism, it was unwelcoming to see the tabloid and the dailies of the town assassinating her personal character over a very personal affair. “I had studied yellow journalism just the earlier year. I found out, the hard way, what it really was,” she added relating to the news published in different papers in town during that time.
In a society like Nepal where women are still preferred to live a discreet, chaste and submissive life with much expected of them; it was an ardent task to come out in the open and fight for one’s self respect. And because Namrata Shrestha was an actress, it became even more difficult to deal with the whole situation.

Namrata, who thought there would be helping hands for her in her difficult time, it was a shock to her to realize how many that she thought would always be there for her, turned their heads away. “It really turned me down when people whom I trusted did not show up while I needed them the most,” her moist eyes spoke the rest.
It, however, does not mean that she did not have enough people to support her morally.
“It happens in life. All that matters in the end is how you deal with it. Will you run away from it or will face it is totally in your hands,” the bold and beautiful actress made it loud and clear.
In retrospect, she has come to terms with the realization that perhaps she wasn’t able to handle the situation more appropriately and maintain the stardom as she should have, but she never blames herself for the guilt.
“What was my mistake? Making love! To trust someone! To become an actress! Or to have been born a girl in this orthodox country?” she questioned.
Back to a somewhat normal life now, Shrestha recently showed up as a brand ambassador at the Beach Cricket Tournament that recently took place in Kurintaar. Besides, she also enrolled in some upcoming music videos. Despite the fact that she has moved on, the memories from the past still haunts her today. But she says she will live with that pinch so she can carefully walk ahead in the days to come.
“I learned a lot,” she says, adding the whole ups and downs in her life have helped her grow as a better human being; also to be more responsible of her duties.
“I’ve learnt to live life properly. I’ve realized how important I was and I am to so many people. I’ve started loving myself even more.”

Accepting all that comes before her, this daring actress says she will never give up. She has a few names to thank for making her realize that her life is still worth living. First, it obviously has to be her parents, and then she will never forget what her best friend RJ and model Raymon Shrestha did for her, what the station manager of Kantipur FM did, and the moral support she received from lawyer and constituent assembly member Sapana Pradhan Malla, managing director of Quest Entertainment and film producer Bhaskar Dhungana, and her movie producer Prabhu SJB Rana.

“I won’t die unsuccessful. I’ll never step back. I still have a lot more to do,” the spark in her eyes made it ever so clear.

Source: Republica

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Chapali Height Poster Change----SERIOUSLY????

Well I have to say this is really really really absurd....To begin with I dint think for a second that the original posters of Chappli Height were that disturbing....but when the police didn’t allow the posters and hoarding board advertisement of Chapali Height to be displayed in the public, the film makers were forced to re-design the poster.

In the new poster the nude actors are featured wearing clothes. The designers have photoshoped the posters to add cloths... WELL WHAT CAN I SAY......I GUESS WHAT EVER IS BEST FOR JANTA..:)



Better comparison of the posters:

2 lakh – Binita Baral’s New Rate



After the success of ‘Chapali Height’, Chapali girl Binita Baral has told that she has set her rate to 2 lakh per movie. Binita claimed that that was what happened in Bollywood when Vidya Balan increased her rate after the success of ‘Dirty Pictures’.

I didn't the pay is so low in Nepali Film Industry. After the immense success of Chapali Height, Binita Baral rate hikep up to just 2 lakhs...I am happy for her, but at the same time was shocked to know the low pay scale of Nepali Actors and Actresses. I hope the Nepali Movie Industry grows in coming years in a very constructive and creative way...

All the best to Nepali Movie Industry.......

Rekha Thapa’s favorite role in movies




Nepali actress Rekha Thapa is considered one of the top actress in Nepali movie sector. She has acted in more than 100 movies and she has acted in different roles in them. She has acted in the roles of housewife, lover, leader, police woman, sister, action, sissy girl, teenager, matured woman and likes. Out of them, her favorite role is the role of a lover girl.
In a talk with Sourya Daily, Rekha told that she wants to be a lover in real life and being in love has a sweet feeling inside. In movies, viewers love the scenes featuring frustration related to love and love stories. If given a choice, Rekha chooses role of a lover in any movie she does.



She also told that she feels comfortable doing roles of a teenager. As she has passed that stage, she understand every aspects of being a teenager.
Although Rekha is in a role of a housewife in her upcoming movie ‘Rawan’, she hasn’t done much movies in that role. In another upcoming movie ‘Lanka’, she is in a role of a leader. She has also done roles of police officer in various movies and she likes being featured as a police officer. She has also acted as a younger sister in various movies.



Although she has received an award for her role as an action actress she doesn’t like fight scenes and violence in movies. Rekha has also done serious roles of helpless woman in a lot of movies. The character cries a lot in movies and she doesn’t like crying. Although she doesn’t like such roles, she believes viewers like her in such roles.


Source:filmnepal.net

Dawa Lama Sentenced to 10 years Imprisonment


Who is DAWA LAMA???????
Dawa Lama, 23, a Nepali immigrant residing in Queens, New York has been convicted of murdering her newborn daughter and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by Queens Supreme Court on Monday.Lama was working as a beautician in New York city after arriving in the United States four years ago with her mother.

DAwa Lama's Crime?
She dumped her newborn baby in trash at a hospital in New York, USA.

Why did she commit the Crime..?
According to sources she afraid to tell her mother that she was pregnant, hence she decided to dump her new born in the trash.

Here is what had happened.....
Dawa Lama, 23, abandoned her full-term infant daughter in an emergency room trash can at Elmhurst Hospital. Lama hid the entire pregnancy from her boyfriend and mother and when she delivered, she got rid of the baby. What’s so disturbing about this story is just how close this baby could have been kept safe. Lama was already in a hospital and under New York State law, mothers can leave a baby within five days of its birth at any city hospital or fire house with no questions asked. The baby could have been alive and healthy right now. Instead, the newborn girl who had been on life support since May 10, died on Wednesday.

Nepali hairy mum Devi Budhathoki, 3 children treated for werewolf syndrome





FAMILY which suffer from a condition called 'werewolf syndrome' have arrived in Nepal hoping they can be cured.

Devi Budhathoki, 37, her daughters, aged 13 and five, and 12-year-old son say they have endured constant humiliation because of hypertrichosis, a rare genetic condition which causes hair to sprout between their eyes and across their brows.

"My children have talked about a new life ever since we received word that the hospital was going to treat us," said Ms Budhathoki, a farmer from the remote northwestern village of Khare, near the border with the Tibetan border.

Sufferers from hypertrichosis, also known as "werewolf syndrome", have in previous centuries been used as freakshow performers at circuses.

"My son is fed up with the mockery he is subjected to and he has told his friends that he will be back with a new face so they can no longer tease him. More than myself, I'm worried about my children," Ms Budhathoki said.

"But I am very happy that the treatment is going to be possible. We have lived under constant harassment, my kids wouldn't want to go to school because of the hair," she said.

Ms Budhathoki and her husband Nara also have a seven-year-old son and 17-year-old daughter who have not been affected by the condition.

"The best procedure for them will be laser treatment to remove the hair," said Shankar Man Rai, a surgeon at the Kathmandu Model Hospital who will supervise their treatment.

SOURCE: news.com.au

Nepali Guy Arrested for killing Girlfriend


I am not sure how to react on these kinds of news anymore....Its such a shame that killing each others has become a norm in our country. I am stunned by these sort of heinous crime committed by our so called new generation or lets say youth of our country.

A guy makes a girl pregnant and the only way he saw himself getting out of the situation is by killing her. WOW!!! When things like this happens I fail to understand whom to blame for this whole situation. There is no doubt in my mind that the GUY is solely responsible for taking someone else's life. In this case killing two lives. One of the girl and one of the fetus. I hope he rots in hell for doing this....

I hope the Victim in this case the Girl Rests in Peace. I am truly saddened by the below news....



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Police arrested 21 years old youth on charge of killing his girlfriend.

Saughat Dhakal from Kapilbastu currently living in Kupondole has been charged for killing his girlfriend Bhawana Karki. 25 years old Karki, a native of Gatthaghar Bhaktapur, was living in a rented room at Jwagal, Kupondole and used to work at a call centre of Baneshwor.

The incident was occurred on March 23, but, the murder came to the light only after the week-long-closed door of the room was opened yesterday. There was a deep cut on her throat by a sharp Khukuri, according to police.

During investigation, it has been found that Karki was five week pregnant and she was constantly pressing Dhakal and his mother for marriage. According to police, Dhakal has confessed of murder and during interrogation he has said that Karki has warned him to kill his mother if he did not marry her.

It is also learnt that Dhakal had been in relationship with another girl as well.

Earlier in August also, girlfriend was murdered and Lalitpur closure was announced in protest against it which has heated the capital.