Balidaan (1997)

Directed by one of the most successful Nepali movie director Tulsi Ghimire, the movie Balidan is one of the successful movies of its time. Balidan means ‘sacrifice’ and the story of the movie is also based on patriotic content. The originality of the story and it being based on the people’s movement for democracy was also one of the many reasons for its success. The story being related to the Nepali society and also a democratic storyline made it different than most of the other Nepali movies, especially of that time, so, the movie was loved by mass as well.