Some of the comedy shows that we grew up watching like ‘Hijo Aaja Ko Kura’ and ‘Tito Satya’ made us laugh till our bellies hurt, but what made the actors of those epic shows laugh? Surely working on such funny skits must have been funnier. The Week talked to some of Nepal’s favorite comedians to find out what had them in splits while filming their shows.

Sitaram Kattel 

I had to do many mischievous activities due to the role I portrayed in ‘Meri Basai’. Dhurmus usually jumps around and creates chaos in the series. I can’t forget a specific moment during a live performance of ‘Meri Basai’ when I ripped my pants. I had just entered the stage and was calling myself ‘Don’ trying to show off to Suntali and at that moment my pants got torn as I was jumping and moving my legs vigorously. I didn’t know what to do so I stood in one corner of the stage and started delivering my dialogues. Suntali then started laughing at me and that had me laughing too. Later, the whole audience started laughing as well.

Deepa Shree Niraula

Many incidents have occurred which have made the whole crew burst into laughter during the shoot of ‘Tito Satya’. I remember one specific incident where we had to shoot a dinner scene. I had to serve dinner to Deepak and he had to eat it. The plan was to shoot the scene in one take but we had to do several re-takes. We kept on messing up the dialogue and as if that wasn’t enough, we also had to go through other technical disturbances. By the time, we had successfully completed the scene Deepak had finished an entire pot of rice. He later had to take antacids because of 
indigestion.

Jeetu Nepal

I was in London and had gone to the Krishna temple with Dilip Ryamajhi. We saw that there was a cow farm run by the temple and wanted to shoot a scene where ‘Mundre’ works in a farm abroad but lies to his father that he has a job in a well-reputed company in London. We didn’t want to take the hassle of getting permission to shoot so we sneaked into the farm. When we were about to return after the shoot, we met one of the staffs of the temple who was also a Nepali. He recognized us and when we told him about our situation he said we could shoot and that we didn’t need to worry about getting permission. And to think we went through so much hassle to be discreet in the first place. 

Hari Bansha Acharya

I have many hilarious moments, be it on-screen or off-screen but if I have to recollect any specific one, it would be my choice of taking up the character of Hari Bahadur who was a friend in real life. I used to be amused by the way he talked so I decided to adopt his style and thus Hari Bahadur was created without him being aware about it. When the show was screened on TV, he called me up and jokingly asked for royalty for doing his mimicry.  

Santosh Panta

We were shooting a scene for the comedy show ‘Kasto lagyo’ and were filming the portion at a village where a young girl was being forced into getting married. As the marriage ritual was been filmed, a resident of the village came and expressed his disapproval of what was happening. We had told the people there what was happening but this one person didn’t seem to know or understand. It was chaotic but really funny as well. 

Kamal Mani Nepal

We were shooting a scene for ‘Bhadragol’ when we couldn’t help laughing at each other. There was a scene where a character on screen had to slap someone. For the scene to look realistic, we ended up slapping each other really hard more than once. After wrap up, we couldn’t resist laughing looking at each other’s rosy cheeks as a result of our frequent slaps.

 
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