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INTERVIEW: Bhaskar Dhungana

BHASKAR DHUNGANA Bhaskar Dhungana, one of the owners of the Jai Nepal Cinema Hall, talked with Sushma Joshi of the Nation Weekly about the hall’s history, upcoming plans for digital exhibition, and the potential for Nepali films to be more widely distributed with new digital technology. Jai Nepal Hall is doing successful business at a time when most cinema halls are barely breaking even. We are surviving. Why is cinema not doing so well in Nepal? Cinema is not cinema anymore. It was a social event before. Now it’s a place where people are herded together in a commercialized space. We have to recreate the social aspect, in my opinion. We have to make it fun. And by this I mean a clean environment, and a place where families and children are welcome. Cinema is also about light and sound as well, and the technology has to be good. How did you get interested in starting a cinema hall? I always thought it would be nice to have theatres like the one in foreign countries in Nepa