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Bijuli Machine
''Bijuli Machine'' is a 2016 Nepali film directed by Navin Awal and produced by Rishav Acharya, Santosh Lamichhane, Bindu Timilsina, Sanjeev Neupane, and Navin Awal. The film revolves around two teenage friends who set out to solve Nepal's chronic “ load-shedding” problem with the innovation of a unique ‘Bijuli Machine’. Santosh Lamichhane is also the Science Advisor for the film. The film released on Mangsir 17, 2073 B.S. i..e December 2, 2016. The movie has been called a science-fiction film with a social story. Its teaser and trailer created positive response. In an interview, writer and director Navin Awal, mentioned that although he and the Scientific Consultant Santosh Lamichhane worked to make the movie scientifically logical, the movie is more a metaphor, that the voice of youth has the true energy and it should not be ignored, that every innovation begins with an imagination and perseverance against all unfavorable odds is what makes dream a reality. Reviewers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uttam Neupane
Surya Kumar Neupane (born 1987) known professionally as Uttam Neupane, is a Nepali sound mixer. He is the recipient of the 5th National Film Award of Nepal for Best Sound mixing for the feature film ''Mero Euta Saathi Chha''. Two films he did sound-mixing for, '' Bulbul'' and ''Talakjung vs Tulke,'' were Nepal's official entries for the 92nd and 88th Academy Awards respectively. Career Neupane worked on the short film '' Dadyaa'', which was nominated for Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and won a Special Jury Award. He also worked with CNN journalist Benjamin Best on his documentary film ''Dirty Games''. It won Feature Documentary Award of Recognition at the Hollywood international independent documentary awards in 2016, Best Documentary at Snowdance Independent Film Festival, New York festivals. Neupane also worked on Talakjung vs Tulke directed by Nischal Basnet, which was chosen as Nepal’s Official entry in best foreign language film category at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buddhi Tamang
Buddhi Tamang ( ne, बुद्धि तामाङ) (born 2 March 1982) is a Nepalese actor and a theatrical performer. He has appeared in numerous Nepali feature films, some music videos, television commercials and print advertisements. Career Buddhi Tamang started his career by joining a theater in Kathmandu and worked there for many years before making it onto the silver screen. He came to the limelight with the success of the hit film '' Kabaddi Kabaddi'' . His dialogue “Hait” started trending and helped him to gain recognition. He mainly works in a supporting role. He also had a role as "Hanumane" in the hit Nepali sitcom Television series '' Meri Bassai ''Meri Bassai'' ( ne, मेरी बास्सै) is a Nepali language, Nepali sitcom television series. It began in 2006 and still continuing and has become the longest running sitcom in Nepal. Sitaram Kattel is the script writer, co-direc ...''. Filmography Films References External links * {{D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajesh Hamal
Rajesh Hamal ( , born September 6, 1964) is a Nepali film actor (MAHANAYAK). He is regarded as one of the most influential and popular actors in the history of Nepalese cinema. He is popularly known as the "Maha Nayak"(megastar)of the Nepalese film Industry for being the highest-paid Nepali actor throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. He is the first Nepalese actor to receive popularity across South Asia, holding several box office records in Nepali cinema, including the most commercially successful film as lead actor, most consecutive hits, and most awards as an actor. Hamal debuted as an actor in his uncle's film '' Yug Dekhi Yug Samma'' in 1988, which was a huge hit and made him a nationwide star. But the 1991 Blockbuster '' Deuta'' marked a turning point in his career and launched Hamal to superstar status. Since then, he has appeared in over 200 films in a career spanning nearly three decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential personalities in Nepali cine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nepal
Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north, and India in the south, east, and west, while it is narrowly separated from Bangladesh by the Siliguri Corridor, and from Bhutan by the Indian state of Sikkim. Nepal has a diverse geography, including fertile plains, subalpine forested hills, and eight of the world's ten tallest mountains, including Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. Nepal is a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural state, with Nepali as the official language. Kathmandu is the nation's capital and the largest city. The name "Nepal" is first recorded in texts from the Vedic period of the India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nepali Language
Nepali (; , ) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Himalayas region of South Asia. It is the official, and most widely spoken, language of Nepal, where it also serves as a '' lingua franca''. Nepali has official status in the Indian state of Sikkim and in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration of West Bengal. It is spoken by about a quarter of Bhutan's population. Nepali also has a significant number of speakers in the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Uttarakhand. In Myanmar it is spoken by the Burmese Gurkhas. The Nepali diaspora in the Middle East, Brunei, Australia and worldwide also use the language. Nepali is spoken by approximately 16 million native speakers and another 9 million as a second language. Nepali is commonly classified within the Eastern Pahari group of the Northern zone of Indo-Aryan. The language originated from the Sinja Valley, Karnali Province then the capital city of the Khasa K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navin Awal
Navin Awal is a Nepali film director and writer. He has directed hundreds of ad films, a short film; 1 Percent and the first Nepali science fiction movie with a social story, ''Bijuli Machine''. Awal is the creative director A creative director (or creative supervisor) is a person who makes high-level creative decisions and, with those decisions, oversees the creation of creative assets such as advertisements, products, events, or logos. Creative director positions ar ... at Silhouette Media, Nepal. References Nepalese film directors Nepalese male writers 21st-century Nepalese film directors {{Nepal-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Load-shedding
Demand response is a change in the power consumption of an electric utility customer to better match the demand for power with the supply. Until the 21st century decrease in the cost of pumped storage and batteries electric energy could not be easily stored, so utilities have traditionally matched demand and supply by throttling the production rate of their power plants, taking generating units on or off line, or importing power from other utilities. There are limits to what can be achieved on the supply side, because some generating units can take a long time to come up to full power, some units may be very expensive to operate, and demand can at times be greater than the capacity of all the available power plants put together. Demand response seeks to adjust the demand for power instead of adjusting the supply. Utilities may signal demand requests to their customers in a variety of ways, including simple off-peak metering, in which power is cheaper at certain times of the day ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santosh Lamichhane
Santosh Lamichhane is a Nepali writer. He has authored a Nepali poetry collection, ''Porridge Eaters and Gruel Drinkers'' and a Nepali novel ''Ultimate Aakash''. Early life and education He was born in 1983 in Panchkhal, in the Kavre district of Nepal and he lived most of his adolescent years in Kathmandu. He has been living in the United States since 2002. He obtained his bachelor's degree in 2007 from the University of Texas at Arlington and his master's degree in 2011 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He currently lives in the United States. Literary career ''Porridge Eaters and Gruel Drinkers'' has been listed in the US Library of Congress and Nepal's Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP) book archive. The book was published by Janamat Prakashan, Kavre, Nepal. ''Ultimate Aakash'' was published by Samakalin Literary Academy, UK. His poetry collection was released in 2014 in a literary function in Madison, Wisconsin, where he currently resides. The collection has so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinesh D
Dinesh (Devanagari: ') is a common Hindu male given name. The Sanskrit word ' is a compound of ' 'day' and ' 'lord', meaning 'day-lord', an epithet of the Sun. Notable people with the name include: * Dinesh, Indian film actor * Dinesh Baboo, Indian film director, cinematographer, producer, actor and screenwriter * Dinesh Chand, Fijian golfer *Dinesh Chandimal, Sri Lankan cricketer * Dinesh Chandra Sen, Indian researcher on Bengali folklore * Dinesh D'Souza, Indian-American political commentator * Dinesh Gunawardena, Sri Lankan politician * Dinesh Gupta, Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary * Dinesh Karthik, Indian cricketer * Dinesh Kumar, Indian choreographer * Dinesh Lamba, Indian actor * Dinesh Mongia, Indian cricketer * Dinesh Nandan Sahay, Indian governor * Dinesh Nayak, Indian Hockey player * Dinesh Patel, Indian professional baseball player * Dinesh Prasad Singh, Indian politician * Dinesh Singh, Indian politician * Dinesh Singh, Punjab politician *Dinesh Subasinghe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seto Surya
White Sun or Seto Surya is a 2016 drama war biographical film directed by Deepak Rauniyar. Written by Deepak Rauniyar, David Barker and Produced by Joslyn Barnes, Danny Glover, Tsering Rhitar Sherpa, and Deepak Rauniyar, under the banner of Aadi Productions with Louverture Films, The Bertha Foundation, Doha Film Institute, The Film Kitchen, Hubert Bals Fund, Mila Productions, Netherlands Fund for Film and Worley Works. The film stars Dayahang Rai and Rabindra Singh Baniya in the lead roles alongside Asha Magrati, Sumi Malla, Amrit Pariyar, Deepak Chetri and Deshbhakta Khanal. The film is based on Nepalese Civil War's conflict between royalists and Maoists. It world premiered in the Horizons section at the 73rd edition of the Venice Film Festival. It was later screened at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. It was selected as the Nepali entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Plot When his father dies, anti-regime p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment industry worldwide. Given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the awards are an international recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements, as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette as a trophy, officially called the "Academy Award of Merit", although more commonly referred to by its nickname, the "Oscar". The statuette, depicting a knight rendered in the Art Deco style, was originally sculpted by Los Angeles artist George Stanley from a design sketch by art director Cedric Gibbons. The 1st Academy Awards were held in 1929 at a private dinner hosted by Douglas Fairbanks in The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The Academy Awards cerem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Science Fiction Films
Sixteen or 16 may refer to: *16 (number), the natural number following 15 and preceding 17 *one of the years 16 BC, AD 16, 1916, 2016 Films * ''Pathinaaru'' or ''Sixteen'', a 2010 Tamil film * Sixteen (1943 film), ''Sixteen'' (1943 film), a 1943 Argentine film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen * Sixteen (2013 Indian film), ''Sixteen'' (2013 Indian film), a 2013 Hindi film * Sixteen (2013 British film), ''Sixteen'' (2013 British film), a 2013 British film by director Rob Brown Music *The Sixteen, an English choir *16 (band), a sludge metal band *Sixteen (Polish band), a Polish band Albums *16 (Robin album), ''16'' (Robin album), a 2014 album by Robin * 16 (Madhouse album), a 1987 album by Madhouse *Sixteen (album), ''Sixteen'' (album), a 1983 album by Stacy Lattisaw *''Sixteen'' , a 2005 album by Shook Ones (band), Shook Ones * ''16'', a 2020 album by Wejdene Songs *16 (Sneaky Sound System song), "16" (Sneaky Sound System song), 2009 *Sixteen (Thomas Rhett song), "Sixteen" ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
