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

Cast: Dilip Rayamajhi, Manoj Shrestha, Giri P Sunar, Sonu Ghimire etc.
Direction: Manoj Shrestha
Producer: Giree prasad Sunar

‘Bidhawa’ meaning widow, is a woman whose husband is dead. This Nepali movie depicts the cursed life of a girl (Gaumati) whose husband dies too early, and has to live a painful life as a widowed woman. The movie also features Dilip Raymajhi as Ram Gaire, who arrives at the village to spread the awareness against the discrimination against widowed women.

Single women are the most marginalized and abused sector of the population. Even her own family members abuse her and they are seen as a curse befallen on the family. It is also believed that if a widow marries another man, her deceased husband’s soul goes to hell. Such practice is still found in a lot of villages of Nepal. In ancient times, there used to be ‘Sati’ practice in which if a married man died, the widow is forced to join her husband in his funeral. But, if a wife dies, his husband can marry another girl. So, everything seems to go against woman.

The makers have managed to create a movie which presents a life of a ‘kamini’ woman in Nepal and how her life transforms when her husband dies, but it was far from being a successful movie. Quite a lot of things in the movie looked imbalanced, the script was poor, not so creditable cinematography and I can’t imagine a bad screenplay than this. From the start, it was a disaster. The movie starts as Dilip Raymajhi and Sonu Ghimire being chased by a group of villagers and it never looked natural. On many occasions, the mouth movements were not synced with the voice. Why on earth are we being so lazy to not test the entire movie twice? At few occasions, the background music was too high and irritating and even disturbing the dialogues. For instance, when Gaumati tries to pour the water from the feet of her husband, intending to drink it, they played awkward background music which was displeasing and disturbing the dialogues.

I also didn’t like the idea of repeating events on few occasions, like the marriage scene which was repeated in happy musical song as well as on sad songs. Similarly, when the Gaumati’s husband died, everyone was crying and few scenes were repeated couple of times. It seemed as if the director was out of idea on how to play the screen. One more thing that I was not pleased about was the speech program where Dilip Raymajhi gives his speech. I am not sure why the makers didn’t make any effort to compile a better dialogue for this. And finally, the finishing was a disaster. I was really shocked to see how everything changed so easily and hurriedly.

Thankfully, I loved the dance of Sonu Ghimire. Her moves were astonishing and for me, it was the only thing to cherish about the movie.

Plot:
The movie starts as Ram(Dilip Raymajhi) and Gaumati(Sonu Ghimire) being chased by villagers. Then the movie backtracks to a point when Ram arrives the village with a camera in his hand. Ram came to the village as a representative of ‘Ekal Mahila samaj sewa’ to help the single women of village from discrimination and abuse. But he falls in love with a young widow whose husband died very early. As he gets closer, he knows even more about her.

Watch or Not:
I wouldn’t recommend anyone to watch this movie.

Cast: Sangam Bista, Gajit Bista, Nishma Ghimire, Ashishma Nakarmi, Basanta Bhatta, Nirmal Sharma, Anmol Agrawal, Arjun Gurung
Director: Saugat Bista

How much do you love your father? I think it’s the most difficult question. Every father is the first ‘Hero’ figure of any child. Every father is special for their children. His role will be even more special if a child has no mother. ‘Love you Baba’ is an emotional movie about the relationship between a father, Sushant (Gajit Bista) and her daughter, Chanchal (Sangam Bista).

8 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. Well, he may have helps from seniors. It’s a very positive start for Saugat Bista, but that’s definitely not the end yet. How far can he go? Will he get more offers from other movies? Those are the questions striking on my mind.

The makers of the movie have managed to create a balance between humor and emotions. The movie has a very strong opening with a clash between daughter and her father. It drops at few occasions, but the finish was perfect. It was heartwarming story of the attachment and affection between father and daughter. The background music was very good and well placed. Gamvir Bista has done good job for dialogues of the movie. It was a gripping movie and had very few flat moments. Few actions in the end was little difficult to believe.

I loved Chanchal’s attitude and her performance was excellent from start. For instance, her attitude to start a fight with Gaida was very hilarious. And, oh my god, she is a graceful dancer. I was amused by her expressions and dance in the end. Gajit Bista as a humble man was equally good. There were few occasions when he looked to overact, like when he was shouting at his neighbors. But those were just minors and overall he looked good. I loved Nishma Ghimire flirting Gamvir. Her Maithili dialogues were too cute.

“अरो तोरीके, बेथल्छी बोरापर, नजर छे तोरा पर”
– Nishma Ghimire

Plot:
The movie starts as the daughter waking her father up in the morning and ordering him to make breakfast. Chanchal is the name of daughter and her father is Sushant. Chanchal’s mother dies after giving her birth and Sushant have a very hard time growing her up. But he never gives up and does whatever it takes to make her daughter happy. He would buy anything she wants and takes her anywhere she wants. But movie takes a twist when another girl comes to the life of Sushant.

Watch or not?
It’s a very beautiful movie. Go for it.

Here is the official trailer of ‘Love You Baba’

Cast – Jay Kishan Basnet, Sarika Kc , Rajaram Paudel , Laxmi giri , Puran Thapa , Laya Sangraula, Rajendra Khadgi , Ramesh Mattare
Writer,Director – Puran Thapa

Having a baby is considered a great joy to anyone. In a country like Nepal, it’s more than joy to have a baby. Infertility is considered as a curse. Occasionally, women who cannot give birth are bullied and harassed by society. There were trends of bringing new wife if their current wife couldn’t give birth to any child. Clearly its discrimination because a man could divorce or re-marry his wife on grounds of infertility but a woman could not divorce him if he was impotent.

Kanchi Matyang Tyang is movie about journey of a married man Krishne(Jay Kishan Basnet) to find a new wife as his wife is also infertile. But this time, the wife asks her husband to bring new wife herself. She is always harassed by the people around her and so wants his husband to bring a new wife as she badly wants to play with kids.

Kanchi Matyang Tyang is a comedy movie with few crazy of jokes and lots of hilarious moments. Although it is not the best script, the main theme of the movie seems fresh and creative. The movie has very few boring moments, which I think is very rare in Nepali cinema. Lots of senior actors they were all splendid. I loved Laxmi Giri as mother in law. She was extraordinary. There were lots of hilarious dialogues. In particular, here is Rajaram Poudel’s dialogue that I loved.

“Tapaiharu ko Jodi yesto jamchha ki yesto jamchha ki, testo ta bhaktapur ko dahi pani jamdaina.”

Well, the action in the movie was a minus. It’s hard to take one fat guy jumping 10 ft above and kicking 10 huge guys. Is it compulsory to have such action scenes in Nepali movies? Indian cinema has progressed a lot in their cinematography and vfx in last decade. So when they do action scenes, it easy to take. But I think for Nepali cinema, it looks awful, with poor cinematography and vfx.

Plot:

Krishne is a traffic police with a wife who is impotent. The movie starts as Krishne dreaming about lots of sexy girls around him and they were all dancing with him. As he awakes up, his wife scolds him for not being able to bring new wife. Well, she has a reason to ask her own husband to marry again. People around her think she is cursed and they annoy her. Now the journey of Krishne begins to find a new wife. It’s not easy to find a girl for a married man. Check the movie to know how he manages to find the solution.

Watch or not

Its a time pass and watchable movie.

Official trailer

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