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Manoj Adhikari
Manoj Adhikari is a Film Director, Producer who is making Nepali and Indie cinemas in Australia and Nepal. Adhikari has directed two feature films: Ritu (2014), Girl Addicted (2020). He has produced the film Dokh (2020) which is slated to release in mid 2020. He has worked as Executive Producer in Sunkesari (2018), Line Producer in The Winner (2016), Happy New Year (2017).

Adhikari debuted as a film director with romantic drama RITU, which is the first Nepali film produced and shot in Australia. Recently, he has directed independent film Girl Addicted with Australian Actors and Crew members which is slated to release on end of 2020. Adhikari started the Nepali Cinema Script Writing Competition in 2012. This competition encouraged hundreds of young writers to enter in the Nepali films. Ritu (2014) is the runner up script which turned up as feature film. Adhikari continued Nepali Cinema Script Writing Competition 2 in 2013, Nepali Cinema Script Writing Competition 3 in 2018. The feature film Dokh, directed by Anup Baral, is the winner script of Nepali Cinema Script Writing Competition 2.

Adhikari started his film career writing about films in Australia ko Nepalipatra. Adhikari along with film director Deepak Rauniyar started a facebook group: New Nepali Cinema, which became the discussion platform for film makers and new comers for development of Nepali cinema. The group organised different film competition like script writing, poster design, Sunday cinema etc. in Nepal and Australia. These days Australia is considered to be the second largest market for Nepali cinema. Adhikari has contributed a lot to create the market of Nepali cinema in Australia. He has distributed more than 20 Nepali cinema in Australia and organised many events related to films, Nepali music and food.

Early life
Manoj was born in 26 September 1987 in Gorkha, Nepal. He did his school from Saraswati Boarding Higher Secondary School, Chhetrapati, Kathmandu and joined Nobel Academy to complete high school. He moved to Sydney, Australia in 2008 for higher studies.