An Indian tv personality and actor, Monika Bedi now has been conformed to act in a Nepali movie. This is the first time of Monika is acting in a Nepali movie and she hasn’t missed a chance to make it more memorable.
Thirteen years after she acted in her last film of note, ‘Tirchhi Topiwale’, Monica Bedi, better known as the companion of jailed mafia don Abu Salem, has begun a new innings in Nepal
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The 36-year-old actress , whose glamorous looks survived her long ordeal in the past when the Indian government sought her extradition from Portugal along with Salem, and her subsequent stay in prison for passport forgery, starts shooting in a Nepali film, "Parichay", directed by Mumbai-based director Akash Pandey.
On Saturday, soon after she flew into Kathmandu and dumped her baggage in a hotel in Thamel, the prime tourist hub in the Nepali capital,she was followed by nepali journalist. It was in the same neighbourhood that Nepali media tycoon Jamim Shah, alleged to have close links with underworld king Dawood Ibrahim, was gunned down in broad daylight in February 2010. Bharat Nepali, another mafia hit man who claimed responsibility for Shah`s killing, was himself shot dead in Bangkok nine months later.
Monica, whose links with the underworld have remained the subject of unquenched speculation, looked unaware of the gangster history of the area as she smilingly posed for photographers in dark skintight trousers topped by a dark Reebok jacket over a jazzy T-shirt, boots and a pair of large sunglasses.
While refusing to comment on the fake passport charge that landed her in prison in India, Monica was, however, happy to talk about the new celluloid venture that has cast her opposite Nikhil Upreti, Nepal`s action hero who last year left the Nepali film industry to carve out a niche in Bollywood.After getting released from the jail Monica bedi had participated in different reality shows of Indian television.
Much of the shooting will be done in idyllic tourist town Pokhara, where earlier Govinda, Priyanka Chopra and decades ago Dev Anand and Zeenat Aman had flocked to shoot their new films.
In "Parichay", Monica plays a girl from a middle-class family who works in an office but is driven by dogged ambition to become a film star.
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It could be the true life story of the girl who was born in a village in Punjab and then taken, as a babe in arms, to Norway
Being made in Nepali and believed to have the investment of non-resident Nepalis, "Parichay" unfolds after Monica meets Nikhil at a dance bar and the two fall in love and marry, only to be parted by her unbridled ambition.
Years later, when both have carved out their own identities they meet again, leading to a twist in the plot.
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The rest of the film will also be shot in India and Thailand
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