Tripti Nadakar is a Nepalese film actress. Tripti has performed in more than a dozen Nepali films. Her hit movies were Samjhana , Kusum...
Tripti Nadakar is a Nepalese film actress. Tripti has
performed in more than a dozen Nepali films. Her hit movies were Samjhana,
Kusume Rumal, Saino and Lahure. She and Bhuwan K.C. were dubbed the first
golden couple of Nepali film industry.
Tripti Nadkar
came from a family of directors and film makers. The actress made her first
television appearance when she was just two years old. The innocent toddler
actress was featured in various advertisements like Nirma washing powder, Zandu
Pachan Shakti, gripe water and other products. After success in advertisement
she also did modeling and acting in documentaries.
Tripti made
her debut in big screen cinemas in a Marathi movie when she was
eight-years-old. Tripti had managed to gain fame in Gujrati and Marathi movies
before acting in Nepali movies. In Nepali movies, Tripti debuted in ‘Kusume
Rumal’ when she was fifteen-years-old. At the age of 16 she already had two
blockbuster movies an a huge fan-base. Tripti was featured in successful movies
like ‘Samjhana’, ‘Koseli’ and ‘Lahure’. The director Tulsi Ghimire is credited
for introducing Tripti in Nepali movies and he is also Tripti’s uncle.Tripti took a
break from acting in 1988 after finishing Nepali movie ‘Koseli’. After that she
remained full time housewife and mother for the next 17 years.
ACTRESS PROFILE
Name – Tripti
Nadkar
Date of Birth
– January 2, 1969
Place of
birth – Darjeeling, India
Children –
two sons
Tripti’s
father met her mother, a singer, while he was posted in Darjeeling. They got
married and Tripti was the only daughter of her parents.While shooting for
‘Bhar Chha Bhedi’ in Rajkamal Studio, her uncle Tulsi Ghimire and Shambhu
Pradhan proposed her to play a Nepali movie.Tripti didn’t have any affairs and
she did an arranged marriage. She was engaged while shooting ‘Kusume Rumal’.
Her husband did export-import business. She got married while shooting ‘Saino’.
While doing ‘Koseli’ Tripti had already given birth to the elder son.
While
shooting of ‘Koseli’ Tripti felt guilty of leaving her son alone and working
while he cried. So, she decided to retire from acting and become a full time
mother. After leaving acting Tripti started learning and teaching dance while
tending her two sons. When her elder son grew up, he took over Tripti’s dance
class.Now the elder son of Tripti is running a dance institute in Mumbai and
studying in Multimedia. The younger son is still in school and has worked in a
number of advertisement and television serials.At the time she left acting,
Tripti had decided not to do any movies in life. But, when the director of the
movie ‘Aamako Kakh’ presented the script of the movie to Tripti, she accepted
it and returned to acting.Tripti is a
very good and beautiful Nepali actress but, she can’t speak Nepali properly.
She has Hindi and Marathi ascent. That was the reason all the movies from
‘Kusume Rumal’ to ‘Kosheli’ were dubbed by Bharati.She says, when she talks in
Mumbai, she adds Nepali in-between and when she talks in Nepali she adds Hindi
and English in-between.
SOME INTERESTING FACTS
Tripti’s
mother Mayadevi had also acted in movies with Tripti. In Kusume Rumal, Mayadevi
was featured as the villain’s mother and in ‘Samjhana’ she was featured as
Tripti’s mother.It was not
only her mother, her father had also acted in ‘Samjhana’. He was featured as
the doctor in the hospital in the movie.Tripti was
paid Rs. 150,000 to act in ‘Saino’. That was two decades ago, and there are still
a very few actress who get that much money for a movie.
