Chhabi’s new movie Lazza to feature Aryan Sigdel and Shilpa Pokharel

The inauguration of an upcoming movie ‘Lazza’ was held in the Ganesh mandir of Kamaladi on October 28. Producer Chhabi Raj Ojha and director Nawal Nepal inaugurated the movie by offering puja in the temple. Chhabi’s another movie ‘Loafer’ is releasing in theater on Mangsir 21.

Although the movie was inaugurated on Monday, the shooting will not start until after the Tihar festival. In the mean time the lead actor Aryan Sigdel is busy in his home production ‘November Rain’. The movie is the debut movie of Aryan’s opposite Shilpa Pokharel. Shilpa, a well known model in music videos, has taken a formal training on acting in preparation of the movie.

‘Lazza’ is to be made on a love story by Chhabi himself. The script and dialogue is prepared by the director Nawal Nepal. The movie features music of Chetan Sapkota and will be shot by the cinematographer Madan Kashyap Ghimire.

Chhabi Ojha is known for introducing most number of new actor and actresses in Nepali movie industry. The top actor and actresses in Nepali movie industry including Rajesh Hamal and Rekha Thapa, Aryan Sigdel etc. were introduced by Chhabi. 

Shilpa Pokharel to debut in Lazza (New Nepali Movie 2013)

A well known actress and model of music videos, Shilpa Pokharel is going to debut in big screen Nepali movie in Chhabi Raj Ojha’s ‘Lazza’. Chhabi is known to introduce successful actors and actresses in the past. Shilpa’s opposite in the movie Aryan Sigdel was also introduced by Chhabi in the past. The top actress Rekha Thapa and the top actor Rajesh Hamal were both introduced by Chhabi.

Actress profile:

Name – shilpa Pokharel

Height – 5 feet 2 inches

Home town – Pokharia, Biratnagar

Television debut – Gharbeti Ba, a comedy serial

Movie debut – Lazza

Television debut

In small screen, she had started her acting career in a comedy serial ‘Gharbeti Ba’ in Kantipur Television. She acted in a main role in 16-episodes of the serial. When Shishir Subedi left the serial, Shilpa also left it and started modeling in music video.

Music video journey

The first music video she did was of singer Purna Rai’s video. The music video titled ‘Halka Halka…’ was directed by Arjun Adhikari. But, the music video is yet to to released to public.

The first music video that was released to public was Anju Pant and Sworup Raj Acharya’s ‘Timi Kasko Hune…’ The video was an instant success. After the success of the video, she has become one of the most busiest music video models. She did about 100 music videos in a year’s time.

Shilpa has worked with various music video directors like Munal Shishir, Arjun Adhikari, Subash Regmi, Shiva BK, Umer Gurung, Diwas Pokharel, and Bikesh Subedi.

Shilpa, a beautician

In addition to modeling and acting, Shilpa is also a trained beautician. Shilpa has done an advance course in beautician from Neel David’s Saloon. Although she is a trained beautician, she is more inclined towards acting and wishes to be one of the successful actresses.

Rekha Thapa celebrates the success of ‘Kali’ by buying a new car

The release of Rekha Thapa‘s latest movie ‘Kali‘ posed a lot of threats. Some threats Rekha might have felt are:

• It was the first movie she had produced alone. All of Rekha Film’s previous movie were produced by Chhabi Raj Ojha.
• While Rekha was busy in ‘Kali’, Chhabi was producing his own ‘Loafer’. The media had termed the ‘Loafer’ actress Rajani KC the new Rekha. Some even speculated Chhabi marrying Rajani.
• The release date of ‘Loafer’ and ‘Kali’ was set on the same date – Fulpati of Dashain.
• These issueses led Rekha to approach Chhabi (or, the other way around) to let Chhabi distribute ‘Kali’. That saved Rekha from a tough competition. But, it also created another problem. The distributors Rekha had previously promised for the distribution of the movie got angered by the Rekha and Chhabi team. They found another movie featuring Rekha to release on the same date as ‘Kali’
• The Bhojpuri movie ‘Damani’ was a hit movie in Bhojpuri and it features Rekha in a guest role. The distributors, decided to highlight Rekha and release the movie to take away ‘Kali’ viewers.

Although Rekha’s ‘Kali’ was saved from the competition of Chhabi’s movie ‘Loafer’ it’s couldn’t escape  from herself in ‘Damini’. The publicity of the movie paid off and ‘Kali’ remained in theater for more than two weeks.

Rekha and the team say that the movie has made a good profit. According to media report, the movie has earned in excess of 1.5 crores. Rekha says that she has made a good profit after recovering the cost of production. To show-off the profit, Rekha has also bought a car costing Rs. 43 lakh. 

Kali and Damini release controversy in it’s peak

On the Fulpati day of Dashain two movies of Rekha Thapa are releasing. Such a release of ‘Kali’ and ‘Damini’ at the same time can divide the viewers causing loss of revenue to both of them.

It seems, the clash in release is started when Rekha choose Chhabi Raj Ojha to distribute the movie. Before that, distributor Manoj Rathi was supposed to release the movie. Manoj Rathi group lost the right when Chhabi Raj Ojha entered the scene. After that, Manoj Rathi group purchased the rights of Bhojpuri film ‘Damini’ to release on the same date.

It seems, Chhabi couldn’t take it anymore when ‘Damini’ replaced ‘Kali‘ in Bishowjyoti theater. Chhabi wrote a letter to the Film Development Board to intervene the issue and let the Nepali movie get a preferred treatment.

Manoj Rathi says that the movie was also shot in Nepali language along with Bhojpuri language, so it is not a foreign movie. In addition, the actors and crew members in the movie are Nepali so, he says, the issue of the movie being a foreign movie is baseless.