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Muna Madan (film)
Muna Madan is a 2003 Nepalese tragic romance film, directed by Gyanendra Deuja. The film is based on novel of the same name written by Laxmi Prasad Devkota. The film is produced by Nabaraj Dhakal under the banner of N.B.A. Chalchitra. The film stars Deepak Tripathi, and Usha Poudel in the lead roles alongside Subhadra Adhikari, Vijaya Lama, Mithila Sharma, Neer Shah, Dinesh D.C., and Shivahari Poudel. The film was selected as the Nepalese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards but it wasn't nominated. Plot The movie describes the life of a man (Madan) who leaves his wife (Muna) and goes to Lhasa to make money. Madan represents all the youths of Nepal who go abroad to earn money to earn their living. The wife of Madan, Muna is the queen of love and sacrifice. She loves her Madan a lot so she is upset as she has to send him to a place, Lhasa, where there are lots of obstacles and risks. But finally, she accepts this challenge and stays in the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyanendra Deuja
Gyanendra Deuja (born 5 May 1967) ( ne, ज्ञानेन्द्र देउजा) is a Nepali film director and screenwriter. He directed his first movie, ''Rakshak'', in 1997. It contained the first instance of an underwater action scene in a Nepali movie. He then started adding a novelty to each of his movies. One of his notable movies is ''Muna Madan'' () based on the long poem of the same name by Laxmi Prasad Devkota. This movie was Nepal's submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2004 Oscars. As of May 2016, he was shooting his latest film, ''Buddha - born in Nepal'', which is a story of a struggling Nepali student In America. Early life Gyanendra Deuja was born in Kapan, Nepal. He is the youngest of Mr. Dev Bahadur Deuja and Late Mrs. Kanchhi Deuja's four children. He has two sisters and a brother. His father is a farmer and a Nepalese Army veteran. He went to school at the Pashupati School in Chabahil, and to college at the Nepal Commerce Campus in Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laxmi Prasad Devkota
Laxmi Prasad Devkota ( ne, लक्ष्मीप्रसाद देवकोटा) (1909-1959) was a Nepali poet, playwright, and novelist. Honored with the title of Mahakabi ( ne, माहाकवि) in Nepali literature, he was known as a poet with a golden heart. He is considered to be the greatest and most famous literary figure in Nepal. Some of his popular works include the best-selling ''Muna Madan'', along with ''Sulochana'', ''Kunjini'', ''Bhikhari'', and '' Shakuntala''. Life Early life Devkota was born on the night of Lakshmi Puja on 13 November 1909 (27 Kartik 1966 BS) to father Teel Madhav Devkota and mother Amar Rajya Lakshmi Devi in Dhobidhara, Kathmandu. His father was a Sanskrit scholar, so he attained his basic education under the custodianship of his father. He started his formal education at Durbar High School, where he studied both Sanskrit grammar and English. After finishing his matriculation exams from Patna at the age of 17, he pursued B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Usha Poudel
Usha Poudel (born 29 August 1977 in Janakpur) is a Nepalese dancer and movie actress. Usha debuted in Nepali movie industry as an actress in Nepali movie "Karma". Her second movie "Muna Madan" made on a popular book titled Muna Madan, by Laxmi Prasad Devkota in 1999. Usha Poudel married a Nepali actor Sudhanshu Joshi in a ceremony held in Virginia, USA on 24 November 2016. Rukmani Kumari Paudel (Usha) is a highly renowned actress from Nepal with over 40 feature films including ''Karma'', ''Muna Madan'', ''Godhuli'', ''Timro Maya'', ''Pyari Bahini'', ''Ganga'', ''Jetho Kancho'', ''Ram Laxman'', ''Baaz'', ''Krodh'' and ''Maya Nagara'', ''Jwalamukhi''. She has done 8 television series, 36 music videos and over a dozen television commercial films, carving a niche for herself as a power house of talent with a huge fan following base in no time. She received a "Best Actress" award in 2003 for her outstanding performance in a television series. One of her films ''Muna Madan'' was sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vijaya Lama
Vijay Lama ( ne, विजय लामा), also known as Captain Vijay Lama : a senior Nepali pilot:one of the first Nepalese pilots to become the instructor on Airbus A330 is singer, actor, television presenter, and social activist. Acting career He has worked in more than 30 Nepali movies such as Raanko, and Truck Driver. His debut movie was the Nepali film ''Aadarsha Naari'' (1984). He appeared in the Hollywood film ''Everest'' featuring an ensemble cast including Josh Brolin and Jake Gyllenhaal. He played the role of rescue pilot Col. Madan KC. Vijaya Lama also participated as a solo singer in Melancholy song by 365 Nepali Artists which set the Guinness World Record ''Guinness World Records'', known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as ''The Guinness Book of Records'' and in previous United States editions as ''The Guinness Book of World Records'', is a reference book published annually, listing world ... for "Most Vocal Solos in a Song Recording". Filmogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mithila Sharma
Mithila Sharma ( ne, मिथिला शर्मा) is a Nepalese actress and dancer. She has been acting in Nepali films, tele-serials and dancing at different stage programs and doing various musical dramas. She is known for '' Mukundo:Mask of Desire'' (2000), ''Karma'' (2006) and ''Undone by Love'' (2004). She teaches singing and dancing at Kantishwori and St Mary's High School. Personal life and education She was born on 16 October 1963 (30 Ashoj, 2020 BS) in Kathmandu. Sharma is a graduate in Home Science and Dance who has worked in more than hundred films, more than a dozen serials, several musical dramas and numbers of stage shows. Mithila was married to Ex-IGP of Nepal Moti Lal Bohora in 2014. Career Sharma started her career at the age of 9. She performed in Gopal Yonzan's song in front of the late King Birendra on his birthday. She was first screened in the film ''Biswas'' directed by Chetan Karki for a role of a dance teacher which widened her path in the Nepali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neer Shah
Neer Bikram Shah, also known as Nir Shah, is a senior People of Nepal, Nepalese film actor, director, producer, poet, songwriter, and businessman. He is considered one of the leading actors in Cinema of Nepal, Nepali cinema history and an actor with multiple identities. He is related to the royal family of Kingdom of Nepal, Nepal. Film career Neer Shah is the producer or co-producer of many Nepali language, Nepali movies. He has also directed several Nepali movies produced by himself, including ''Basudev (film), Basudev'', ''Pachchis Basanta'', ''Basanti'', and a Nepal Bhasa movie Rajamati. He is also a co-producer of the Academy Award, Oscar-nominated film ''Himalaya – l'enfance d'un chef'', which was co-produced and directed by the French movie maker Eric Valli. The film, also released as ''Caravan'' (in Canada) and ''Himalaya'' (in Denmark and France), was the first film from Nepal to win an Oscar nomination. Shah has also played antagonistic as well as other character rol ... [...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] |
Shivahari Poudel
Shivahari Poudell ( ne, शिवहरी पौडेल), popularly known as Asina Prasad, is a Nepali comic actor, writer and director of Nepali weekly comedy television series Jire khursani & Brake Fail. He has also acted in the 2013 Nepalese movie '' Chha Ekan Chha'' and guested on the comedy show ''Tito Satya Tito may refer to: People Mononyms *Josip Broz Tito (1892–1980), commonly known mononymously as Tito, Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman *Roberto Arias (1918–1989), aka Tito, Panamanian international lawyer, diplomat, and journal ...''. References Living people Nepalese male television actors 21st-century Nepalese male actors Nepalese film directors Actors from Kathmandu Nepalese male film actors Year of birth missing (living people) Nepalese male comedians 21st-century Nepalese screenwriters {{Asia-actor-stub ... [...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] |
Muna Madan
''Muna Madan'' ( ne, मुनामदन) is a 1936 Nepali-language episodic love poem written by Laxmi Prasad Devkota. It is about Madan, newly married to Muna, who leaves for Lhasa in Tibet to make his fortune, despite protests from his wife. Synopsis ''Muna Madan'' follows the life of Madan, a Chhetri man from Kathmandu who leaves Muna, his wife, to go to Lhasa to earn a fortune. He is cautioned against leaving by both Muna and his elderly mother, but he decides to leave anyway. While he initially intends to spend just a few weeks in Lhasa, he spends a longer time there, becoming entranced by the city's beauty. He finally sets off for Kathmandu but falls sick with cholera on the way. His travelling companion, Ram, returns to Kathmandu and tells Muna that her husband has died. But Madan is rescued by a 'Bhote', a Tibetan man. Tibet is called 'Bhot' in the Nepali language, drawn from the classical Tibetan name for Tibet, Bod. The Tibetan nurses Madan back to health, leading ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deepak Tripathi (actor)
Deepak Tripathi, (born 1951) is a British historian of Indian origin with particular reference to South Asia, the Middle East, the Cold War and the United States in the post-Soviet world. Life and career Tripathi's grandfather, Pandit Vishwambhar Dayal Tripathi, was a leader in India's independence movement, Member of the Constituent Assembly, and later of the Indian Parliament. His father, Krishna Dev Tripathi, was also a parliamentarian and an academic. After a year at Aligarh Muslim University, he wrote a book on Afghanistan. In 2012, Tripathi received his doctorate in social science from the University of Roehampton, where he was an Honorary Fellow at the Crucible Centre for Human Rights Research from 2012 to 2015, and later an associate. Reception of his work Tripathi has received praise from various reviewers for his writings on world conflicts, such as in Afghanistan, notably for his trilogy of books ''Breeding Ground'', ''Overcoming The Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afgh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Nepalese Submissions For The Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
Nepal is among over one hundred countries that have submitted films for consideration for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Nepal made its first submission in 1999. The Foreign Language Film award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. , eleven Nepalese films have been submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Nepal's initial submission, ''Caravan'', was nominated for an Oscar. Submissions The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1956. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Following this, they vote via secret ballot to determine the five nominees for the award. Below is a li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
