Neer Bikram Shah, also known as Nir Shah, is a Nepalese film actor, director, producer, poet, songwriter, and businessman. He is considered one of the leading actors in

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history and an actor with multiple identities. He is related to the royal family of

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Film career

Neer Shah is the producer or co-producer of many Nepali movies. He has also directed several Nepali movies produced by himself, including '' Basudev'', ''Pachchis Basanta'', ''Basanti'', and a

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movie Rajamati. He is also a co-producer of the

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-nominated film '' Himalaya – l'enfance d'un chef'', which was co-produced and directed by the French movie maker Eric Valli. The film, also released as ''Caravan'' (in Canada) and ''Himalaya'' (in Denmark and France), was the first film from Nepal to win an Oscar nomination. Shah has also played

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movies as a guest artist. Shah has also penned down many Nepali and

songs. He has also done the scriptwriting for a few of his films. In 2001, he served on the jury of Film South Asia '01, the festival of South Asian documentaries, along with Firdous Azim and

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Filmography

As an actor

Service

Shah was the first head and founder of

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(NTV), the first TV station in Nepal, and is the chairman of Shangri-La TV (STV), a film production and microwave TV distribution company. STV produced many programmes for NTV and also provided the cable television network in

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valley. Shah holds 33 per cent equity in a United Kingdom-based firm, Galaxy, which is involved in telecasting Nepalese TV channels overseas. Along with Nirmal Nicholas Paul, he set up a production company called "888 Films", that produces Nepalese and Hindi films. Another of his companies, National Studio, provides training in various fields of cinema production. He is also one of the proprietors of New Century Pictures Pvt.Ltd., a film production company. Shah also serves on the Governing Council of College of Journalism and Mass Communication in Nepal. In 2002, he was felicitated by the Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation in recognition of his contribution in the "promotion of Nepalese art and culture and tourism industry". He currently lives in London.

Royal affiliation

One of his two brothers, ''Kumar'' Khadga Bikram Shah, was married to one of three former King Gyanendra Shah's sisters, Princess Sharada Shah. Both his brother and sister-in-law were killed in the infamous Royal Massacre of 2001. His other brother is Lalit Bikram Shah.

Politics

Shah is also affiliated with the

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. Earlier, close to

CPN (Maoist Centre) The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) (), abbreviated CPN (Maoist Centre) or CPN (MC), is the third largest political party in Nepal and a member party of Samajbadi Morcha. It was founded in 1994 after breaking away from the Communi ...

, he became close to the

after he was appointed as director of

during the period of Minendra Rijal as communication minister.

Awards

* Chinnalata Geet Puraskar (2011).

References

External links

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