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Rajesh Shrestha

Cinematographer/(DP)

Rajesh Shrestha's camera work sits inside some of the most visible Nepali films of the last decade and a half. His credits include Mero Love Story, November Rain, Parva, Prasad, Prakash, Prem Geet 3, Prasad 2 and Pujar Sarki, a range that moves from romance and mainstream drama into socially grounded stories. The awards and nomination record around his cinematography helps separate the verified career from ordinary credit listing. Mero Love Story brought him a NEFTA cinematography award, November Rain received further award recognition, and later work such as Parva, Prasad and Prakash kept his name in conversations around visual craft. Prakash is especially useful as a recent anchor because its production record identifies him as cinematographer on a film built around the landscape and life of Jumla. Shrestha's biography is not only a catalogue of titles. It is a record of a cinematographer repeatedly asked to translate different emotional worlds into images: urban romance, family pressure, rural aspiration and ensemble social drama. His continuing presence across major releases shows an image-maker whose work has become part of the visual infrastructure of contemporary Nepali cinema.