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Mahesh Tripathi

Actor

Mahesh Tripathi is a Nepali actor. He studied engineering before turning to acting, started out in television serials, and made his feature debut in *November Rain* (2014). He studied film at Oscar College in Kathmandu, where he went on to teach acting for about ten years. His breakthrough came with Bikram Sapkota's *Halkara* (The Postman), in which he played Ram, a troubled postman. The film premiered at the 55th WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival in 2022, where he won Best Actor, and after its Nepali release in 2023 it was chosen as Nepal's entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. His other films include *Chapali Height 3* (2022), *Prasad 2* (2023) and *Khajure Bro* (2024), and in 2025 *Laaj Sharanam*, in which he played a young man from Karnali, *Feri Resham Filili*, *Outlaw: Dafa 219* and Deepak Acharya's box-office hit *Paraan*. In 2026 he took a lead role in Gyanendra Deuja's *Jhinge Daau 2*. He plays Madan Krishna Shrestha in Milan Chams's biopic *I Am Madan Krishna*, which began shooting in September 2026, and is in the cast of Basanta Niraula's *Panch Pandav*, due in cinemas on 6 November 2026. He has also signed to star in *Shirjara: Song of Grandmother*, a Nepal, US and Poland co-production directed by Bikash Subedi.