Aama is the first Nepal

Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

i movie produced in Nepal, starring Shiva Shankar

Shiva Shankar

Shiva Shankar Manandhar was a singer, music composer of Nepali songs and the chief actor in the first Nepali movie, Aama. For nearly a half century beginning from 1950 to late 1990, his name has probably been mentioned more often in books, journals, lectures and conversations about Nepalese music...

 Manandhar and Bhuvan Chand (Thapa) as the leading actors. The movie was produced by the Information Department of the Nepalese Government and released on October 7, 1964.

Plot

The story revolved around a typical household of a Nepalese village where a desperate young boy flees home to earn money and to alleviate agony of his poor widow mother. He served in a foreign army for a couple a years, returns home as a grown-up, energetic young man but only to find that his mother has died. The elders of the village persuade him to stay behind in the village and serve the community, reiterating the saying that “service to the motherland is equally virtuous as service to a mother”.

Cast

• Shiva Shankar
  Shiva Shankar
  Shiva Shankar Manandhar was a singer, music composer of Nepali songs and the chief actor in the first Nepali movie, Aama. For nearly a half century beginning from 1950 to late 1990, his name has probably been mentioned more often in books, journals, lectures and conversations about Nepalese music...
  
  
• Bhuban Thapa
• Indra Lal
• Basundhara Bhushal
• Chaitya Devi
• Uttam Nepali
• Hari Prasad Rimal
• Hira Sigh Khatri
• Bhim Bahadur
• Bimala Kumari

Crew

Story: Chaitya Devi

Script: Upendra

Director: Hira Singh Khatri

Music Composer: V. Balsara (Theme song by Nati Kaji/Shiva Shankar)

Producer: Information Department, the Government of Nepal

Production

Since there was no precedence of movie making in Nepal, there were no professional movie actors to be recruited for the leading roles. The leading actor, Shiva Shankar

Shiva Shankar

Shiva Shankar Manandhar was a singer, music composer of Nepali songs and the chief actor in the first Nepali movie, Aama. For nearly a half century beginning from 1950 to late 1990, his name has probably been mentioned more often in books, journals, lectures and conversations about Nepalese music...

 was a music composer/singer (www.shivashankar.org) and actress Bhuvan Chand was a theatre performer. According to Shiva Shankar

Shiva Shankar

Shiva Shankar Manandhar was a singer, music composer of Nepali songs and the chief actor in the first Nepali movie, Aama. For nearly a half century beginning from 1950 to late 1990, his name has probably been mentioned more often in books, journals, lectures and conversations about Nepalese music...

, most of the shots were approved at the first single take.