The Nepal Weekly 
March 8, 2022
Director Dins Palpali’s Chiso Ashtray is scheduled to be released in the theatres across the country from March 18, a day after the Fagu festival.
Director Palpali said that he was releasing the film seven years after he started working on it.
Talking to media persons in the capital on Sunday, Palpali said that he started writing the script of the film in 2013, and its shooting had started in 2015. According to Palpali his movie was influenced by late poet Bhupi Sherchan who had compared Kathmandu with a cold ashtray.
He pointed out that they have tried to portray different aspects of Kathmandu in the movie.
The film is a story of a rustic guy who turns into an urban man after staying in Kathmandu for many years. Over the years, he loses his true essence and becomes a city man.
Likewise, producer Mahesh Babu Timalsina said that the shooting of the film had completed in 123 days and coincidently, the film also consists of 123 scenes.
“I played a very positive character in the film and have tried to explore the creative aspects of the street of Kathmandu through my character,” remarked lead actress of the film Shrishti Shrestha.
She was hopeful that this film would add another brick in her acting career.
Meanwhile, the title song of the film written and sung by Rabin Tamang was released on Friday.
Tamang, who sang many rock songs before starring the film, is now more active in acting than in music. Some time ago, he played the lead negative role in Hindi series The Last Hour streamed on Amazon Prime, which became popular in India. After a long gap in Nepali film industry, Tamang is reappearing in screen with Chiso Ashtray.
