D Cine Award – Rekha Thapa and Jiwan Luitel best actors

Nepali actress Rekha Thapa has won the best actress award in HTV Filmykhabar D Cine Award. Rekha was awarded the award for her role in her movie ‘Lanka’. The best actor award was awarded to Jiwan Luitel for his role in ‘Notebook’. In the best movie category, ‘Rhythm’ was awarded the best in the year.

In this year’s award, ‘Maya’s Bar’, ‘Rhythm’ and ‘Notebook’ bagged most of the awards.

The award winners include:

• Best movie – Rhythm
• Best director – Bikash Acharya (Rhythm)
• Best Actor – Jiwan Luitel (Notebook)
• Best Actress – Rekha Thapa (Lanka)
• Best supporting Actor – Wilson Bikram Rai (Rhythm)
• Best Supporting actress – Karishma Manandhar (Maya’s Bar)
• Best Cinematographer – Puroshottam Pradhan  (Maya’s Bar)
• Best Editor – Bipin Malla (Addhya)
• Best Character Role – Tika Pahadi (Manjari)
• Best New Director – Deepa Basnet (Antaral)
• Best New Actor – Gajit Bista (Maya’s Bar)
• Best New Actress – Sima KC (Use)
• Best actor in Negative role – Jharana Thapa (Facebook)
• Best music – Arjun Pokharel – (Mero Jiwan Sathi)
• Best Singer male – Praladh Timilsina (Notebook)
• Best singer female – Milan Amatya (Notebook)
• Best Lyricist – Dr. Krishnahari Baral (Rhythm)
• Best Choreographer – Shankar BC (Mero Jiwan Sathi)
• Best Action director – Chantra Panta (Hemesha)
• Best Dialogue – Shivam Adhikari (Notebook)
• Best Script – Bikash Acharya (Rhythm)
• Best story – Yogesh Ghimire (Notebook)
• Best child artist – Anubhav Regmi (Rhythm)
• Best sound mixing – Manojraj Bhandari (Full Stop)
• Best background music – Alish Karki (Maya’s Bar)
• Best makeup – Nima Lama (Dhanda)
• Public choice Award – Gaurav Pahadi
• Jury Award (Actor) – Arpan Thapa
• Jury Award (Actress) – Nisha Adhikari
• Jury Award (Film) – Shirish Ko Phool
• Cine artist honor – Madandas Shrestha and Sharmila Malla

Ritesh & Ravi Represent Nepal At Global Student Entrepreneur Award

Ritesh and Ravi with Mr. Hitesh Golchha (Golchha Enterprises), Mr. Sanket Lamichaane (Linez Advertising), Anand Tuladhar (Blue Bird Mall) and first from right – Mr. Subodh and Miss Reetal Rana (Mid Valley International College for Hotel Management)

Young entrepreneurs Ritesh Marwadi of We Fear Silence Pvt. Ltd and Ravi Singhal from Social Aves Pvt Ltd managed to reach the Top 7 at the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards in Calcutta this week. The duo who were representing Nepal faced a tough competition against young entrepreneurs from over 40 countries. The winning entrepreneur will go onto receive exposure, professional contacts and US $10,000 cash prize.

Ritesh Marwadi from We Fear Silence has been organizing events of various types in Nepal for more than a year. From invitees only events to new years parties with international DJ’s, Ritesh has quickly built a name for his company and himself. The young entrepreneur is also currently in full-time education. During the initial round, Ritesh came second from Nepal with Ravi Singhal clinching the first position as the lead representative from Nepal. Singhal’s company Social Aves is the first social media company of Nepal. The duo will be heading back to Kathmandu on Monday.