History of Nepali Cinema

Cinema halls
Kathmandu talkies (Kathmandu Chalachitra Ghar)
Touring talkies
First movie (in Nepali language) – Satya Harishchandra, 14th September 1951
• Release – 1951
• Starring – Prem, Kanta, Sheela, Sandow, Pariyar
• Director – Sangh Rathi
• Producer – TP Chaurasiya, SP Mookarji
• Banner – Bihar National Movietone

Directed by – D.B. Pariyar
Made in Kolkata
First movie made in Nepal – Aama, 7th October 1964
Produced by the Information Department of the Nepalese Government

Maitighar – first movie made under a private banner (Sumanjali PVT. LTD) in 1966
Starring – Mala Sinha and Chidambar Prasad Lohani
Royal Nepal Film Corporation (Estd. 1971)
Mannko Baadh – first film under RNFC.
• Release date – February 18, 1974
• Starring – Salyan KC, Sushma Shahi, Mina Singh, Jagannath Timilsina, Hari   Prasad Rimal, Subhadra Adhikari, Bhairav Bahadur Thapa, Basundhara Bhusal, Nir Shah, Himalaya Lohani, Gopal Bhutani
• Director – Prakash Thapa
• Cinematographer – Baikuntha Man Maskey
• Story – Shreedhar Khanal
• Script writer – Prakash Thapa
• Dialogue – Pradip Rimal, Laxminath Sharma

Kumari – the first colour film made (1978)
• Release date – February 18, 1978
• Starring – Salyan KC, Chaitya Devi, Gautam Ratna Tuladhar, Keshav Manandhar, Anand Thapa, Laxmi Shrestha, Shaitoremi Singh
• Director – Prem Bahadur Basnet
• Cinematographer – Shyam Mohan Shrestha
• Story – Bijaya Bahadur Malla
• Script writer – Prem Bahadur Basnet
• Dialogue – Pradip Rimal

Basanta Shrestha - choreographer
Paraalko Aago – Pratap Subba, under Devkota films
Jaar -1941
Learning phase for Nepali technicians – (approx. 2021 BS to 2030)