Cast: Anuvab Regmi, Priyanka Karki, Aryan Sigdel, Suraj Singh Thakuri, Sanchita Luitel, Garima Panta (Special Appearance)
Direction: Muskan Dhakal

Nai Nabhannu La 3 is a musical journey of a young boy, Rhythm and his bond with her mother. After the massive success of Nai Nabhannu La 2, this was one of the most awaited movie of the year. Directed by Muskan Dhakal, it features Anuvab Regmi, Priyanka Karki, Aryan Sigdel and Suraj Singh Thakuri in the lead role. The movie also features Sanchita Luitel and Garima Panta in special appearance.

If you ask me the importance of a mother for a child, it would be the easiest question for any fool to answer. I think the importance is priceless because a mother’s role is not just giving birth to a child, but also to raise them until they finally become a man / woman who can stand in their own feet and do something for himself and/or his family. Most important of all are the sacrifices that she makes to make her child happy. However, some do not have the luck of enjoying the warmth of their mother, but still few among them are lucky enough to get the mother’s love instead. Nai Nabhannu La 3 attempts to portray the affection between a mother and her adopted son. Besides the adopted son, the story also revolves round the guy she loves and a crazy guy that loves her madly.

“Bihe bhayeko chha chhora mai ho, bihe bhayeko chhaina gharma bau chhaina!”

First of all, I love to watch Nepali movies with good cinematography. Camera work and photography are the first impression for any movie that engages you and it was wonderful. Nai Nabhannu La 3 is has an average script, yet it has effectively offered the bond between mother and her son. The first half of the movie was excellent with a good balance between wit and story development. Second half of the movie was very emotional. but at a few occasions, it looked a bit over elaborated and some of the songs could have been removed. For instance, the romance of Samyam Puri and her girlfriend was spoiling the core story. Okay, I got that his presence was important for the script to carry on, but that song ‘Alikatti bold…’ for Samyam Puri was uninviting. Another thing about the movie that I can disagree about is how easily Anuvab learned playing guitar. It looked impossible. The Guitar is probably the most difficult instrument to learn. Had it been some other instruments like Madal or Tabala, I would have agreed. Finally the climax was too predictable. Bringing all the characters to the same place in the climax is the classic way of ending most of Desi movies. That said the work of the director and the crew was creditable.

As far as the performances are concerned, it’s a child actor, Anuvab Regmi who leads the film right from the word go. For a child actor, he has everything it takes to be a superstar in the future. Priyanka was fantastic and Aryan Sigdel was exceptional. His body language and facial expressions were charismatic and helped a lot to get the first half of the movie engaging. All the other actors were good too.

Plot:
Kusum (Priyanka Karki) is living with her adopted son, Rhythm (Anubhav Regmi). Prakash (Aryan Sigdel) is the best friend of Kusum and he loves her very much. Prakash has a beautiful daughter and his wife was died few years back. Sameer was a famous singer who is just back from jail. As Kusum sees Sameer, she falls in love with him. So she finds different ways to get closer to Sameer. She even forces Rhythm to learn guitar with Sameer. But as they get closer, she finds out many things about Sameer. So will Prakash be able to get the girl he loved? You will learn this only on the dramatic climax of the movie.

Watch or Not?
The movie is worth watching, purely because of the beautiful songs, witty acts of Aryan Sigdel and some amazing performances from a few actors.

Official Trailer of Nai Nabhannu La 3

Here we have listed the top 10 best and must watch Nepali movies of 2014.

10. Utsav

The movie, Utsav was a very vibrant story about college life and highlighted the power of friendship among youngster during and after college life. All cast gave an excellent performance. Saugat Malla and Gaurav Pahari carried the movie;  Menuka Pradhan, Sanjog Koirala and Prakriti Shrestha were perfect.

9. Sorry La

Directed by Rishi Lamichhane, ‘Sorry la’ was one of the Nepali movie that surprised us and exceeded our expectations. The movie presents the story about two best friends Anek and Sakaar, with opposite personalities. Anek was free, open minded and charming personality who wants to play with girls and enjoy, while Sakaar was very shy, introvert, lonely personality with a scar on his face, which makes him more depressed. The movie had surprising script, and it’s a different feeling after watching the movie.

8. Love you Baba

Eight year old boy has directed an excellent movie and it’s a great achievement for him. Truly, I was not expecting the movie of such level from a child who cannot even talk properly. ‘Love you Baba’ is an emotional story about the relationship between a father, Sushant and her daughter, Chanchal. This Nepali movie has a balance between humour and emotions. It was heartwarming story of the attachment and affection between father and daughter. We loved Chanchal’s attitude and her performance was excellent from start.

  7. Jerryy

After ‘Hostel’, the heartthrob of teenagers, Anmol KC is back with another classy movie and this time as a charming playboy with the same director of his previous movie, Hemraj BC. In a lead role, he seems to have gained more confidence and looks like more can be expected from his new projects in the coming days. Jerryy is the story about a cool, handsome and rich guy, Jaiveer Rana or Jerry  and his trip to mustang, where he falls in love with Aakansha(played by Anna Sharma).

The movie had very beautiful music and most of the songs seem to be apt for the film’s situations and helped in moving the story forward. The film’s editing was crisp, and so was a screenplay. This movie looked extravagant and visually stunning with beautiful scenery of Pokhara and Mustang.

6. Kohinoor

Kohinoor was the last movie of Shree Krishna Shrestha and the highest grossed Nepali movie all time. So, how can we forget this movie? The movie was about a girl named Kohinoor, who was sold in India, and a guy, Babu who helps Kohinoor run away from there to Nepal. The movie presents the dark side of our society with beauty.

5. Nai Nabhannu la 2

‘Nai Na bhannu La 2’ is a beautiful movie, with beautiful story, related to unpredictable life, full of emotions, affection, love and dreams, a cute romance between a boy and a girl of grade three, presented with perfection, and the heart touching, melodious songs is still unforgettable. This is a movie that’s going to make you laugh, cry and steal your heart. Priyanka Karki was sensational as a mother.

4. Mokshya

Director Prabin Shrestha has done a terrific job in showing the life of a guy in a rock band in Nepal. The music was extraordinary and performance by artists were perfect. Mokshya was a marvellous and a must watch movie of 2014. The movie was made on a story of four youths who wants to build a career in music. The director later declared that about 70% of the story matche with his own life.

3. Talakjung Vs Tulke

Talakjung Vs Tulke is another masterpiece by Nischal Basnet. I was really impressed by how he took care of every small detail in the movie. It was a remarkable journey from start to finish, a new taste. I have known Nishal Basnet for breaking trends in the movie industry, and yet again he has done so with another flawless Nepali movie. Besides the story, Khagendra Lamichhane was astounding from start till end. He carried out each dialogues and performance very well and deserves credit for how beautiful the movie has become.

2. Jhola

Jhola becomes successful in portraying the story of the most evil custom of Nepal, ‘Sati Pratha’ in a pleasing way. When new age Nepali cinema is characterized by glitzy packaging and fancy camera tricks, this sorrowful tale showing the cruel and inhuman practice of Sati in Nepal has broken many hearts and filled many eyes with tears.  Based on the well known writer Krishna Dharabasi’s novel, the movie also depicts the relationship between a mother and son delightfully. Garima Panta was sensational as a wife and a mother in this movie.

1.  Kabbadi

Kabbadi was the most entertaining, most creative and most well directed movie of 2014. With Dayahang Rai at his best, this movie was by far the best movie of 2014. The movie presents a true image of Mustang in terms of social and geographical beauty with the touch of wittiness and sentiment. All the characters in the movie were excellent and everything looked very natural.

Special Thanks

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12.  Binita Joshi

Cast: Garima Pant, Sumina Ghimire, Dikpal Karki
Directed By: Shambhu Pradhan

Legendary director, Shambhu Pradhan is back after 12 years with another complete family drama. Rang Baijani is a movie about two women. Rama is a wife and Devina, lover of same person. Or should I say it is an emotional story of a man, who loves a girl but is forced to marry different girl, his father’s choice.

Some say, being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. But I would agree that woman has the power to control a man and can take him wherever she wants. Rang Baijani has two different personalities of women; one who is polite, caring, and well-mannered typical Nepali village girl who is always behind his husband in any situation. Another is modern, seductive, open minded woman who follows her heart and would say anything to get his man.

Shambhu Pradhan has shown his class with this very well directed movie, but I think the script failed him. Not the worst script, but it lacks creativity and not the class we expect from the movie of such a legendary director. The music and songs were very remarkable. Most of the songs seem to be suitable for the film’s situations and helps in moving the story forward. The movie is very well choreographed and background music did go very well with the circumstances of movie did help in the flow of emotions.

In a lead role, Dikpal Karki was losing grips at few occasions. He made the emotions break at times, being unable to deliver his dialogues properly. For his first public appearance as an actor, it’s understandable but he should remember that he has a lot of room for improvement. Garima Panta was very calm, professional and didn’t lose grip from her character. It was a better performance from her. I think Sumnima Ghimire was in the very best. She looked elegant, stylish and honest. On other occasions, she was impolite and rude with I think no flaws. Sumnima looked really graceful when dancing as well.

Plot:
After the death of father, Rama (Garima Panta) stays at house of her father’s best friend who had a son, Binay(Dikpal Karki). Binay’s father thinks Rama is suitable for his son and asks Binay to marry her. But Binay reveals that he has a girlfriend, Devina (Sumnima Ghimire) who lives with her ‘fufu’. This triggers heart attack to his father. To make her father happy, he marries Rama. When Devina knows about Binay being married, she leaves the city. After three year, Binay finds Devina at hospital. Knowing that Devina has TB, and there is nobody to take care of her, Binay takes Devina to his house. And the drama begins.

Official Trailer of Rang Baijani

Cast: Garima Pant, Sumina Ghimire, Dikpal Karki
Story: Nutan Pradhan
Cinematography: Shashank Pradhan
Screenplay: Nutan Pradhan
Music: Deep Pradhan
Directed By: Shambhu Pradhan

Official teaser:

I believe everyone make mistakes, whether it’s a professional soccer player or president of USA. But you are more likely to make mistakes when you’re drunk. The movie “Thuli” is also about a mistake. A mistake that a guy(Jivan Luitel) unknowingly makes. He have sex with a girl named Thuli(Garima Pant) when he was drunk. Thuli is a girl of Badi community who vows to help other helpless girls who are force to do sex labor. Before starting anything about the movie, let me tell you something about Badi community that I know.

Believed to have once migrated from Baishali in India, the community used to earn its living entertaining royal families and courtiers by dancing and singing. With the passage of time, their old profession could not survive and some of them opted for sex trade as a last resort to sustain their livelihood. They are ranked at the bottom of Nepal’s caste system, even within the Dalit intra-caste hierarchy, which has given them the infamous label of ‘untouchables of the untouchables’. Badi women in particular are affected by discriminatory practices and social stigma due to their perceived association with prostitution.

The script was quite okay, but it was not a good movie. The first half was very boring, with very little fun, emotions and action was very poor. For a movie to be better, I think dialogues play very important roles, and dialogues we not better. Most of the time, movie was progressing with only one or two words and that was too boring to watch. So, there are lots of things to learn from this movie and hopefully, the director Surya Bohora makes a better movie for us. However, I appreciate the team for their effort to make people aware about the Badi community.

Star Performances

I had very high hopes from Garima Panta but she failed me. She was so good in the movie “Jhola”, and this time she wasn’t looking good as a fighter. May be she needs more training but I would like to blame the script and the director as it’s always up to him on how you present your actors. There was also nothing goods to take from Jivan Luitel. His dialogues were too flat and boring. He has a lot to improve if he wants to compete with the likes of Sagat Malla and Dayahang Rai.

Watch or Not?

Can’t find a reason why you should watch this movie.

Movie Trailer

Jhola becomes successful in portraying the story of most evil custom of Nepal, ‘Sati Pratha’ in a pleasing way. When new age Nepali cinema is characterized by glitzy packaging and fancy camera tricks, this sorrowful tale showing the cruel and inhuman practice of Sati in Nepal has broken many hearts and filled many eyes with tears.

Although the Sati system was abolished decades ago, Jhola is still relevant to today’s Nepal where, unfortunately, cases of sexual harassment, violence against women, trafficking remain all too common. The film may not be technically sound or perfectly enacted, but it succeeds in leaving an impact and inspiring viewers to take a stance.

Based on the well known writer Krishna Dharabasi’s novel, the movie also depicts the relationship between a mother and son beautifully. Director Yadavkumar Bhattarai presents each character with beauty and all the characters must be applauded for their outstanding performance. At the start, I felt there were few amateurish acts, but soon the movie takes rhythm and as the lead actors comes into action, the movie comes to life. Garima Panta performs an outstanding act and so was Laxmi Giri and other actors. Child actor, Sujal Nepal performed a breathtaking act to make all the audiences cry at moments.

The film begins in 1958 B.S. in Kathmandu, when an old man called Ghanashyam (Sujal Nepal) leaves his bag for a night at the writer’s home. As Dharabasi starts reading, story takes him to Nepal of the 18th century. We are introduced to a young Ghanashyam who lives with his mother Kanchi (Garima Panta) and his old, sick father (Desh Bhakta Khanal). After her husband passes away, Kanchi’s life becomes a nightmare. Expected to sacrifice herself on the funeral pyre, Kanchi enters almost a daze like state and goes from being a strong-willed, loving mother to a helpless widow. As she prepares herself for the ceremony and Ghanashyam comes to terms with being orphaned, the anguish of both mother and son becomes palpable on screen. While expertly depicting the pain of the protagonists, director Yadav Kumar Bhattarai also explores the tender relationship between a mother and a son, which imbibes the movie with a soul.