At present, America has the most successful movie industry, Hollywood. After hollywood, comes the Indian cinema or Bollywood. Bollywood movies are popular in many south asian countries including Nepal. This heavy popularity of bollywood movies has caused serious damage to Nepalese film industry.
Movie making in Nepal started in the 1960's with the patronization from Royal Family. The first movie was "Satya Harishchandra",made by nepalese living in india in 1951. The first successful movie in Nepal was "Aama", produced by His Majesty's Government of Nepal. At the beginning, Nepalese film industry produced quite a number of successful movies like Basanti, Prem Pinda, Maitighar. In 2000, "Caravan" produced jointly by Nepal and France, was nominated for Academy Award.
Nepal movie industry has been operating for more than fifty years but these fifty years were not very smooth. There's high competition with the Indian movies industry. Comparing with bollywood in terms of quality, quantity, technical equipments and know-how, nepalese movie industry is considered as Goliath fighting against a David named 'Bollywood". Five years earlier, condition of the industry was quite good, it produced 55 movies per year. But now hardly 12-15 movies are poroduced at a nose-dive. There were 450 cinema halls out of which only hundreds are operating at present out of which only 11 are operating with permanent license, 38 with temporary and the rest are mobile or make-shift cinema houses. At present, investment per movie is between Rs.3 million and 10 milliopn, which is higher compared to the past. However, present day movie do not have good collection. In terms of making collection, the successful movie of Nepal was "Darpan Chhaya" released 8 years ago, it made a collection of 20 million.
In the past, to record songs a singer had to go to India. Now many music studios have sprung up in Nepal although they are not of that high quality but India is still preffered. Nepali film makers had to hire cameraman, dance directors, make-up man from india,although now the trend is being changed. Before editing, dubbing and mixing were done in India but now newly developed Nepal Film Development Company Ltd. has all the technical facilities. In the film industry of Nepal, the Film Development Company Ltd. is the only one with all the necessary infrastructure needed for film production. "Muna Madan" which was released 8 years ago is one of the recent example.
Movie making in Nepal started in the 1960's with the patronization from Royal Family. The first movie was "Satya Harishchandra",made by nepalese living in india in 1951. The first successful movie in Nepal was "Aama", produced by His Majesty's Government of Nepal. At the beginning, Nepalese film industry produced quite a number of successful movies like Basanti, Prem Pinda, Maitighar. In 2000, "Caravan" produced jointly by Nepal and France, was nominated for Academy Award.
Nepal movie industry has been operating for more than fifty years but these fifty years were not very smooth. There's high competition with the Indian movies industry. Comparing with bollywood in terms of quality, quantity, technical equipments and know-how, nepalese movie industry is considered as Goliath fighting against a David named 'Bollywood". Five years earlier, condition of the industry was quite good, it produced 55 movies per year. But now hardly 12-15 movies are poroduced at a nose-dive. There were 450 cinema halls out of which only hundreds are operating at present out of which only 11 are operating with permanent license, 38 with temporary and the rest are mobile or make-shift cinema houses. At present, investment per movie is between Rs.3 million and 10 milliopn, which is higher compared to the past. However, present day movie do not have good collection. In terms of making collection, the successful movie of Nepal was "Darpan Chhaya" released 8 years ago, it made a collection of 20 million.
In the past, to record songs a singer had to go to India. Now many music studios have sprung up in Nepal although they are not of that high quality but India is still preffered. Nepali film makers had to hire cameraman, dance directors, make-up man from india,although now the trend is being changed. Before editing, dubbing and mixing were done in India but now newly developed Nepal Film Development Company Ltd. has all the technical facilities. In the film industry of Nepal, the Film Development Company Ltd. is the only one with all the necessary infrastructure needed for film production. "Muna Madan" which was released 8 years ago is one of the recent example.
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