Prem Geet 2, is a Nepalese romanticcomedy drama film, under the banner of Aasusen Films Production with HighlightsNepal, Kindle Cine Studio and Tauwa Creation. It is the sequel to 2016's Prem Geet. The film is directed by Ram Sharan Pathak and produced by Santosh Sen and Om Gurung, screenplay, story, dialogue is from Ram Sharan Pathak. The film stars Pradeep Khadka and Aaslesha Thakuri in the lead roles. Prem Geet 2 premiered around Nepal's big cities including Kathmandu, Butwal and Pokhara on July, and was released in Nepal on 28 July 2017 in 4K High Definition format. The film received mostly positive feedback, with praise for the performance of Pradeep Khadka and its cinematography, background score and music, but criticism of the screenplay. The film was All Time Blockbuster at the box office. The film was third highest-grossing film of the year and one of the highest-grossing of all time with total box office collection of over रु 8.5 crores.
Plot
Prem is a salesman from Kathmandu who lives with his mom. One day he sees Geet and starts following her and comes to know more about her. Eventually both of them fall in love with each other. However Geet was born in Myanmar and was raised in Thailand. Since she wanted to return to her grandmother's motherland Nepal, she had run away from Thailand to Nepal. Now Prem has to encounter many people and fight in order to be with Geet.
Cast
Pradeep Khadka as Prem
Aaslesha Thakuri as Geet
Santosh Sen as Angad
Kabita Regmi as Geet's Grandmother
Rajaram Paudel as Prem's Dad
Kailash Katuwal as Geet's Brother
Sishir Bhandari as Pankaj
Shraddha Prasai as Prem's Mom
Kumar Karki as Geet's Uncle
Production
Pre-production
After the successful film Prem Geet the director and producer announced the squeal of the Prem Geet in the function, in the function the director said "The film is a love story. We have this challenge to make the film better than its predecessor, and we will be working for that." and told everyone the film will star Pradeep Khadka and Aaslesha Thakuri in the lead roles, the film was expected to be in theatres around September, 2017.
Casting
After announcing the film the director choose Pradeep Khadka and Aaslesha Thakuri in lead roles but originally Puja Sharma was chosen for role of Geet but she was declined. Everyone thought the film wasn't going to be good in the box office but the director kept in believing himself and told the audience I've done my best in the film so if it fails in the box office i wouldn't mind and the producer supported the director as well.
Filming
The filming of Prem Geet 2 began on December 12 and the film was shoot in Nepal, Thailand and Myanmar.
Soundtrack
Cover song competition
The director the film set out a competition which was for the best cover song of Kahani Yo Prem Geetko which was awarded in special occasion of 51st day of the release there were 10 people nominated for the award but two people won the award Neeta Thapa Magar and Badal Thapa with a prize of one lakh each.
Release
Prem Geet 2 was released in Nepal on 28 July 2017 than on 1 August 2017 it was released worldwide. After the release of the film in Nepal the cinema was running house full in 80 different Nepalese cinemas to surprise the audience the cast of the films were watching the film with the audience in the release date. The trailer for the film was released in June 18, 2017 in a trailer launch function and duration of two minutes.
Critical reception
My Republica wrote Hope for true love, hope for better films and telling the audience the film is worth watching and its a landmark for Nepalese movie industry, but Republica criticised acting of Aaslesha Thakuri saying when her dialogue of Thakuri it looked fake and sloppy also need to work in her acting skills.
Controversies
Nepalese actress Barsha Raut leaked some images of Prem Geet 2 which saddened the director and the producer of the film told Ekantipur "The images are crucial ones. They are from the film’s most seminal moments, and they hold the all the suspense. We are sad about the incident." The image leaked showed main character Prem's fight scene which was the one of important scene of the film. While promoting the film, Aaslesha Thakuri had a wardrobe malfunction on stage with team of Prem Geet 2 while dancing after she was interviewed the actress where she was crying about the wardrobe malfunction. After the release of the trailer on YouTube, it received more dislikes than likes, however, it was no. 1 trending in Nepal. This led to speculations that someone paid to get the dislikes. Most of the dislikes came from foreign countries, leading to beliefs that there was a plot to bring film down.