Neer Bikram Shah, also known as Nir Shah, is a Nepalese movie actor, a poet, lyricist, movie director,Producer and businessman. He is related to the Royal family of Nepal. Film career
Neer Bikram Shah, also
known as Nir Shah, is a Nepalese movie actor, a poet, lyricist, movie
director, producer and businessman. He is related to the Royal family of Nepal.
Film career
Neer Shah is the
producer or co-producer of many Nepali movies. He has also directed several
Nepali movies produced by himself, including Basudev, Pachchis Basanta,
Basanti, and a Nepal Bhasa movie Rajamati.
He is also a
co-producer of the Oscar nominated film Himalaya - l’enfance d’un chef, which
was co-produced and directed by the French movie maker Eric Valli. The film,
also released as Caravan (in Canada) and Himalaya (in Denmark and France), was
the first film from Nepal to win an Oscar nomination.
Neer Shah has also
played antagonistic as well as other character roles in the movies such as Prem
Pinda and Balidan. He has also appeared in a few Bollywood movies as a guest
artist. Shah has also penned down many Nepali and Nepal Bhasa songs. His songs
such as Prem ko maalaa pahiraai diye, samhaali raakha yeslaai…. have even been
recorded by the critically acclaimed singers such as Narayan Gopal. Being a
literary person he has also done the script writing for few of his films.
In 2001, he served on
the jury of Film South Asia ‘01, the festival of South Asian documentaries, along
with Firdous Azim and Shyam Benegal.
Business career
Neer Shah was first
head and founder of Nepal Television (NTV), the first TV station in Nepal and
is the chairman of Shangri-La TV (STV), a film production and microwave TV
distribution company. STV produced many programmers for NTV and also provided
the cable television network in Kathmandu valley. Shah holds 33 per cent equity
in a United Kingdom-based firm, Galaxy, which is involved in telecasting
Nepalese TV channels overseas.
Along with Nirmal Nicholas
Paul, he set up a production company called “888 Films” that produces Nepalese
and Hindi films. Another of his companies, National Studio, provides training
in various fields of cinema production. He is also one of the proprietors of
the New Century Pictures Pvt.Ltd., a film production company. Shah also serves
on the Governing Council of College of Journalism and Mass Communication in
Nepal.
In 2002, he was
felicitated by the Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation in
recognition of his contribution in the “promotion of Nepalese art and culture
and tourism industry”.
