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Struggle against censorship in Nepali cinema

Throughout my filmmaking journey in Nepal, I have faced one challenge more suffocating than budgetary or logistical constraints: censorship. The irony is that the very thing I value most in ...
While teaching at Kathmandu University School of Law, I ask my students if they or their seniors have danced to the Nepali song Maitighar. Nearly all students immediately raised their hands. Not ...
This 2008 film loosely based on W W Jacob’s 1902 horror story The Monkey’s Paw is perhaps best known as the first successful non-mainstream Nepali movie. Krishna returns from Malaysia and is reunited ...
Newcomer Kabita Nepali takes the co-leading role opposite the U.K.’s Jamie Bacon in “Eklo I,” a film which claims to be Nepal’s first sci-fi movie. Three months of production are now underway in the ...
The International Nepali Film Festival and Awards (INFFA) has announced its first film festival and awards, scheduled to be held in New Delhi, India, from February 1 to 3, 2026, with the support of ...