Craze for Nepali Film in the Foreign Soil

Saudi Arab - Past remencenses stay behind only in memory when one goes to the foreign land with big dream to make fat money. Hundreds and thousand of Nepali youths who were entertaining Nepali films to a great extent are working in the gulf countries. Due to the access to technology, as many people opine, there is an easy access to the foreign film as well, but the taste of Nepali film is far better than that of the foreign movies.

In most of the gulf countries it is extremely difficult, but not impossible, to view the Nepali films. Saudi Arabia is a hard line Muslim country where it is more dificult for the access of the Nepali film.Conduction of the film hall and program of entertainment is illegal in the eyes of the Arabi law. But still Nepali employees are quenching their thirst of Nepali film through television and other sources.

Nepali employees get together on the national holidays or on fridays- Muslim holiday- in parks and junctions. There is a further movement around Damam Nepali Garden, Zedda, Riyad, Battha and Juwel during the leisure time.From the grassroot level of helper to the high ranking technicians, these places remain a cozy intersection to exchange their sentiments, sorrows and happiness of their life. Some even make a good business at this time selling their CDs and VCDs of Nepali song, music and films.
In fact there is no any other alternative to acquire the entertainment than the kind mentioned above.There is an easy access to the Hindi, Arabian, and the TV channels of some other languages through satelite but Nepali satelite channels like Channel Nepal and Nepal 1 can not be viewed with normal disk antena in these places. So these satelite channels are also far from the access.Recently Nepali television broadcasted from London has raised some hope for the hungry audiences for Nepali programs. But sameness of the programs and short time frame have become other interruption for the audiences.

Thus the easiest way to view the Nepali film is the Friday get together where there is a sound business of the CDs and VCDs which is flourishing a great deal. One has to pay 5 to 10 Riyals to buy a CD of Nepali film which have been sold even against the law of copyrights yet ignoring their technical quality as well. When asked how they brought the CDs there, one of the suppliers said that they get the original copy from Nepal through courier services and produce the number of copies they need which is utterly illegal.

'Though this access is through the illegal technique, it is more important for them to quench the thirst of Nepali film in the foreign soil', some put forward their logics. However such films are not the recently released ones but are of two or three years back. Until and unless the concerned authority will make the Nepali film available through some legal process this trend will hardly discontinue, he further added. One of the audiences of Nepali film said that Nepali film industry is at the dilapidated condition because hundreds and thousands of Nepali audiences are deprived of having its access.

The directors and producers have to think the substitute way for the easy access to those thousand willing to view the Nepali film, states another employee .