Tour 2010

When Prashant Tamang Cried

 from lexlimbu

 

Indian Idol winner Prashant Tamang was seen shedding tears at the press show for his recently released movie GORKHA PALTAN. The movie which was released in November 5 has taken Nepal by storm and super-cemented Tamangs status. Gorkha Paltan has done business of 75 Lakhs within its first two weeks and is still going strong as it enters the third week. Tamang shed a tear at the press show stating how he felt overwhelmed by the love and support he has received from the people. Indeed you all should check out the pictures, he has been treated like royalty, from garlands of flowers to gangs of crowd flocking the theatre, Prashant mania is in full-swing. Producer brothers Rajesh Banshal and Suraj Banshal who previously produced Kohi Mero are surprised by the success of Gorkha Paltan... they feel that the subject of Lahurey life has been the forefront in connecting the movie with the audience. 

 

This post is for the people who say Nepali movies are all box-office failures. There is enough Nepali movie viewers to make a movie a success...

From the shooting of " Kina Maya Ma"

Prashant Tamang to be single no more

BHARAT KOIRALA

from thehimalayantimes

POKHARA: The third Indian Idol Prashant Tamang announced on Thursday that he is soon going to tie the knot with his girlfriend Geeta Ale Magar hailing from Nagaland of India.

He informed that he will marry Geeta an air hostess of Kingfisher, an Indian airline in the upcoming year i.e. 2011 amid a programme in Pokhara.

"We will marry as per our tradition," he said.

He is in Pokhara to promote his upcoming first film Gorkha Paltan where he is playing the lead role.

मेरो नामले चलचित्र चल्दैन - प्रशान्त तामाङ

from filmykhabar

प्रशान्त तामाङ भारतीय टेलिभिजन च्यानल सोनी इन्टेर्टेन्मेन्ट टिभिबाट प्रसारण गरिएको 'ईण्डियन आइडल २००७' मा विजयी हुने प्रथम नेपाली मूलका भारतीय नागरिक हुन् । दार्जीलिङको तुङ्सुङमा जन्मेका प्रशान्त ईण्डियन आइडल हुनुभन्दा अगाडी संगीत सम्बन्धी कुनै तालिम लिएका थिएनन् । भारतिय सेनाका जागिरे यि गायक चलचित्रको नायक समेत भएका छन् । नारायण रायमाझीले निर्देशन गरेको चलचित्र 'गोर्खा पल्टन' मार्फत आफ्नो फिल्मी क्यारियर शुरु गरेका प्रशान्तले 'अंगालो यो मायाको' र 'किन मायामा' नामक चलचित्रमा अभिनय गरिसकेका छन् । प्रस्तुत छ यिनै गायक तथा नायकसँग फिल्मीखबर डटकमले गरेको कुराकानी - हिरो बन्न रहर लागेर गायकबाट नायक बन्नु भएको हो ? रहर लागेर नायक भएको हैन । निर्देशक नारायण रायमाझी दाईले मलाई कथा सुनाउनु भयो र कथाबस्तु राम्रो लाग्यो अनि त्यो कथामा न्याय गर्न सक्छु भन्ने लागेर मैले अभिनय गर्ने निधो गरेको हुँ ।    गायक, नायक र सिपाही मध्ये कुन पेशा गार्हो लाग्यो?  शुरूमा जुन पेशा पनि गार्हो नै हुन्छ तर आफूले मन लगाएर, मेहनत गरेर गयो भने कुनै काम गार्हो लाग्दैन ।   यी तीन पेशा मध्ये कुनै एकलाई रोज्नु परेमा कुन पेशा रोज्नु हुन्छ ? अहिले सम्म मैले जति नाम कमाएको छु त्यो सब गायनबाट नै हो । त्यसैले मेरो पहिलो रोजाईको पेशा गायन नै हुन्छ ।  हिरो बन्छु जस्तो लागेको थियो ? म हिरो भई सकेको छैन र पनि चलचित्रमा नायकको भुमिका निर्वाह गर्न पाउँछु भनेर मैले सोचेको पनि थिईन तर आज मलाई बिश्वास गरेर ३ वटा चलचित्रमा अभिनय गर्ने मौका दिनु भएको छ । त्यसको लागी म ति तीनै चलचित्रका निर्माण युनिट प्रति आभार व्यक्त गर्न चाहन्छु ।   'गोर्खा पल्टन' कस्तो चलचित्र हो ? दुई सय वर्ष इतिहास बोकेको गोर्खा फौजसँग सम्बन्धित छ 'गोर्खा पल्टन' । यस चलचित्रमा बेलायतमा कार्यरत तीन हजार पाँच सय ब्रिटिश गोर्खा सैनिकको जीवनमा आइपर्ने उतारचढावलाई वियोगान्तक रूपमा प्रस्तुत गरिएको छ । प्रशान्त तामाङको नामले चलचित्र चलाउन खोजेको त हैन ? मेरो नामले चलचित्र चल्ने हैन । मैले राम्रो काम गर्न नसके पक्कै पनि मैले अभिनय गरेको चलचित्र सफल हुँदैन ।  चलचित्रमा तपाईलाई व्यापारिक प्रयोजनको लागी प्रयोग गरेको जस्तो त लाग्दैन ? मैले त्यस्तो सोचेको छैन । मैले राम्रो अवसर पाएको छु र त्यो अवसरको सदुपयोग गर्ने कोसिस पनि गरेको छु । ईन्डियन आईडल लाखौं नेपालीबाट पाएको माया आज यो चलचित्रमा पुन: पाउने कत्तिको आश राख्नु भएको छ ? ईन्डियन आईडल हुन जुन माया, हौसला मैले पाएको थिएँ त्यो माया, हौसला मैले यो चलचित्रमा पनि पाउने छु भन्ने ठूलो आश गरेको छु ।  मैले आफ्नो तर्फबाट राम्रो गर्न सक्दो कोसिस गरेको छु अब मेरो कामलाई मन पराइदिने या मन नपराईदिने त्यो दर्शकको हातमा ।

Can ‘Indian Idol’ Prashant Tamang become Nepali matinee idol?

by IANS

By Sudeshna Sarkar

Kathmandu, Nov 10 (IANS) This is going to be a critical week for former “Indian Idol” Prashant Tamang. He is now aiming to become the new matinee idol of Nepal, the country that helped him win the popular Indian reality show three years ago.

The 27-year-old former constable from West Bengal Police Force starts his new innings as an actor with his debut film, “Gorkha Paltan”, running in almost 60 theatres across the country.

Though the film on a poor boy from the hills who joins the British Army to escape poverty was released Friday, the actual commercial run started Tuesday because the festivities kept the viewers away and the absence of newspapers meant no critical reviews of the movie.

Directed by Nepali singer Narayan Rayamajhi, “Gorkha Paltan” brought two unexpected visitors in Kathmandu to promote the film.

One of them is Prashant himself, who reportedly cut short a concert in the US to attend the premiere. The other is his mascot, who had boosted his morale in 2007 when he participated in the music reality show on Sony Television in India.

Prashant’s mother Rupa Tamang, who had crowned him with a traditional Nepali cap during the “Indian Idol” grand finale in 2007, flew in from Darjeeling to wish her son luck once again.

“My son is now transforming into an actor from a singer,” the proud mother told Kantipur daily. “I have come to give him my blessings. Let this journey of his too be crowned with success.”

As mother and son watched the film at the Ashtaranayan multiplex in Kathmandu’s busy industrial area Balaju, an overcome Rupa wept during the screening. At the end of the film, she said it was the story of her son, indeed, of their entire family.

Prashant’s father, who was with Kolkata Police, died when his son was still a teenager. The tragedy forced the teen to leave school and step into his father’s shoes to look after his mother and sister.

Though Prashant has two more films in the pipeline - “Angalo yo mayako” and “Kino mayama” - to buck up his career, “Gorkha Paltan” will play a decisive role in making or marring his new avatar.

The media has already started comparing him to other singers who also tried their hands at acting, but returned to singing.

Nepal’s best-known example is golden-voiced singer Udit Narayan Jha, from the Terai plains, who despite his acclaimed role in the blockbuster Nepali film “Kusume Rumal”, failed to carve a niche for himself as an actor in the Hindi film industry.

Though Bollywood rejected him as a hero, it opened its arms wide to him as a playback singer.

Indian singer Sonu Nigam too made an attempt to become a hero. His debut film “Love in Nepal” had a Nepal connexion as it was shot partly in the Himalayan republic and also starred the 1997 Miss Nepal, Jharana Bajracharya.

Sonu too failed as an actor and returned to his first love, singing.

Prashant’s other two films are being shot in India.

(Sudeshna Sarkar can be contacted at sudeshna.s@ians.in)