kathmandu in movie posters! vivacity 30
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photo feature
This is a work of fiction, meant only for infotainment. Any resemblance to any person living or dead is purely coincidental
A tongue in cheek, humorous and wacky photo feature through posters, on popular, mundane or bothering routines & happening that remain invested in the
daily life, style and pop culture of Kathmandu…fashion, smog, power cuts… Showing live, or could someday be showing in a theatre close to you
Various sources of the press recently reported the sale of Ten Nepali statues and artifacts, valued at approximately $200,000, put up for bidding at Christie’s, in the United kingdom and the United States. The artifacts are believed be lost from their country of orgin at some point of time. government offi cials
admit sharing and relying on information from the Interpol. Such auctions continue somewhere
IF KATHMANDU WERE A MOVIE WHAT WOULD THE POSTERS BE LIKE!!
STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN ON THE RING ROAD OF THE CITY’S SUBURBS, BIKES AND CAR ENGINES STOP, SENSING AN UNSEEN
BARRIER…ARE THE DEAD OF THE ROADS GATHERING…?
A study “global burden of Disease by Who reported road traffi c accidents as one of the fastest growing “epidemics” in Southeast Asia.
A UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the pacifi c (UNESCAp) report in 2011 estimated that road traffi c accidents in Nepal had increased fourfold in the last decade by 2010
2012-13 shows a decline in minor incidents down to 2,760 from 3,317 for kathmandu Valley. Major ones dropped from 396 to 206 in the last year.
she rose Like A nemesis For the WArLorDs oF the Art WorLD kAthmAnDu Lost more thAn 50 percent oF it’s ArtiFActs in the LAst 50 yeArs... OF
THELOSTLAST
Wardrobe Lipsy, BhAtBhAteni,
4437586
model mAmAtA prADhAn
photographer rAjiv
shresthA
make up & hair
sumAn LAmA
stylist suBAni B. mAgAr
creative Director
Arun khAnnA
Wardrobe Lipsy, BhAtBhAteni,
4437586
model mAmAtA prADhAn
photographer rAjiv
shresthA
make up & hair
sumAn LAmA
stylist suBAni B. mAgAr
creative Director
Arun khAnnA
Arun khAnnA
A Production of ViVAcitY MAgAzine
A Production of ViVAcitY MAgAzine
photo feature
A lone crusAder finds her wAy through smog...her only chAnce of sAving A populAtion from pArticulAte mAtter over seven times higher thAn the required...
Having paid a fortune for parkings’, and witH spaces squeezing up by tHe day, a lone rider
drives in town looking for parking…
With more parking rates, more vehicles - both growing at an almost 20 percent annual rate, and less parking lots, parking is certainly no park
Vehicular traffic is increasing in the country at an annual rate of about 20 percent. Till 2011 Nepal imported vehicles based on the Nepal Vehicle Mass Emission Standard 1999 equivalent to Euro I.Raised to Euro III since 2012
A study by Yale University, Centre for International Earth Science Information Network and Columbia University listed Nepal in the third last position among 132 countries with a score of 18 out of 100 points provided for air pollution.
A D A r k c o m e D y
Wardrobe Lipsy, BhAtBhAteni, 4437586
model mAmAtA prADhAn
photographer rAjiv shresthA
make up & hair sumAn LAmA
stylist suBAni B. mAgAr
creative Director Arun khAnnA
Wardrobe Lipsy, BhAtBhAteni,
4437586
model mAmAtA prADhAn
photographer rAjiv
shresthA
make up & hair
sumAn LAmA
stylist suBAni B. mAgAr
creative Director
Arun khAnnA
A Production of ViVAcitY MAgAzine
A Production of ViVAcitY MAgAzine
HEIST WITHCITY
photo feature
““The whole fashion scene, with models in different roles from runway to billboards, will gradually style a a vibrant consumerism and upscale advertising. Fashion
designing needs to find an international market endorsement before the local market gradually takes the impact and follows suite. It’s an outward to inward trend, rather
than the other way round, with a serious need of retaining originality”
DARk DEEDS hAVE hAppENED DURINg ThE DECADES olD poWER CUTS oF ThE CITY. oNE pERSoN hAS loST MoRE ThAN jUST A REgUlAR SUpplY oF ElECTRICITY…AND WITh VENgEANCE bRINg bACk lIghT To END ThE DARkNESS…
An unknown
strain of the
‘runway virus’
invades the
fashion hubs
of Kathmandu
valley creating
clone models who
walk runways
long after the
lights are out…One model is out
to meet her clone
and take back
her identity.
OF PASSIONRUNWAYS
The first power plant in Nepal was built at pharping 1910. The 500 kW plant was built by the Rana prime Minister Chandra Shumsher to supply power to kathmandu’s elite.
Ironically a country with a tremendous potential of hydropower, still suffers for electricity, with power cuts having reached upto 16 hours a day in the recent past.
LIGHTS
Wardrobe Lipsy, BhAtBhAteni,
4437586
model mAmAtA prADhAn
photographer rAjiv
shresthA
make up & hair
sumAn LAmA
stylist suBAni B. mAgAr
creative Director
Arun khAnnA
Wardrobe Lipsy, BhAtBhAteni, 4437586
model mAmAtA prADhAn
photographer rAjiv shresthA
make up & hair sumAn LAmA
stylist suBAni B. mAgAr
creative Director Arun khAnnA
A Production of ViVAcitY MAgAzine
A Production of ViVAcitY MAgAzine