Gyanendra Deuja
| Gyanendra Bahadur Deuja | |
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| Born |
May 5, 1967 Kapan, Nepal |
| Nationality |
 Nepali
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| Years active | 1997 - Present |
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Gyanendra Deuja (born 5 May 1967) (Nepali: ज्ञानेन्द्र देउजा) is a Nepali film writer and director. He directed his first movie in 1997, Rakshak where the first underwater action scene was directed. He then started a trend of adding one extra feature in his all movies that had never been shot before. He is known for his movie Muna Madan (Nepali: मुनामदन) based on the poem written by Laxmi Prasad Devkota and Muna Madan. This movie was Nepal's submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars in 2004. He is known for his shooting with different camera angles and a different overall presentation in his films. As of May 2016, he is making his latest film, Buddha Born in Nepal, which is a story of a struggling Nepali student In America. The Nepali student in the film was being taught that Gautama Buddha was born in India. The student knew that this was wrong and changed the course manual by standing up and saying that he knew that the Buddha was born in Nepal.
Gyanendra Deuja was born in Kapan, Nepal. He is the youngest of two sons and two daughters of Mr dev bahadur Deuja and late mrs kanchi deuja. His father is a farmer, formerly in the Nepalese Army. He went to school at the Pashupati School in Chabahil, and to college at the Nepal Commerce Campus in Minbhawan.
He is married to Rosani Adhikari Deuja and is father of a son sulav pratik deuja and a daughter Samikshya deuja. Apart from being a writer and a director mr deuja is also a professional banker working as assistant director in Nepal Rastra bank – the central bank of Nepal since 1988.
While he was doing his undergraduate program, he was involved in theater called aarohan (nepali:आरोहण) now called gurukul (nepali: गुरुकुल) where he got acquainted with senior actors and directors such as sunil pokharel, saroj khanal, badri adhikari narayan puri and so on. The desire of being an actor changed into being a director after being impressed by the technical part of the theater and film making
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