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Bollywood
playback singer Udit Narayan, who left his village home in southern
Nepal almost three decades ago to carve out a flourishing career in
neighbouring India, plans to return to his roots with a film in Nepali.
Udit
Narayan Jha comes from Bhardah village in Saptari district in Nepal's
Terai plains that have become the most trouble-prone region in the
Himalayan nation currently.
Though Nepal is proud of the success
of its boy in the mega-billion Indian entertainment industry and has
often honoured him along with actress Manisha Koirala - another Nepali
talent who made a name for herself in Bollywood -, the last visit to
Nepal by Udit Narayan had ended in controversy.
His first wife Ranjana, who also comes from the plains, created a furore saying the singer had abandoned her and married again.
Udit
Narayan first denied having married Ranjana but letter reportedly
admitted in a letter written to a women's commission in Nepal that she
indeed was his first wife.
However, now with the dust having
settled down, Udit Narayan's film production company UD Movie
Productions plans to shoot a film in Nepali from September.
The
singer's second wife Deepa, who was in Kathmandu on a three-day visit
to shoot music videos, told a local daily that the film will be
directed by Anand D. Gahataraj while the music will be by Alok Shree,
who is credited with bringing ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh's songs to
the Nepali audience.
The shooting will start after a much-hyped Bhojpuri film made under the banner of UD Movie Productions, releases next month.
The
film, "Kab Kahava Tu I love You", stars Amar Upadhyay, known to
watchers of Indian soap operas for playing Mihir in "Kyunki Saas Bhi
Kabhi Bahu Thi". However, it is better known for roping in Miss World
1999 Yukta Mookhey to perform in a song and dance sequence, known as
item number, in Bollywood parlance.
The sequence has been heavily panned by the Indian media, even before the release of the film, as "sleazy".
Besides
the new film, the Jhas also plan to launch in a big way their son
Aditya, who has already acted and sung in Hindi films as a child
artiste.
Aditya left Bollywood in 2001 after his voice started breaking. Later, he was sent for vocal training in a London school.
"You will be seeing him soon," his mother told the Kathmandu Post daily.
Indo-Asian News Service
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