Raunak Bikram Kandel
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Raunak Bikram Kandel was born on March 04, in Kathmandu, Nepal. He is a film producer know for, Kabaddi, Kabaddi-Kabaddi, Purano Dunga, Gham Pani and Mr. Jholay & Dimag Kharab. His father is a renowned businessman and he has two sibling. During his teen years, he went to Malpi International School & was very interested in extra curricular activities & sports. After finishing his studies, he then entered into event managing business, during event managing process in 2013 on of his closest friend (Maniram Pokharel) insist him to enter & try his luck on Nepalese film world. Then he debuted on a featured film Kabaddi as an associated producer under his friend (Nischal Basnet)'s banner Black Horse Picture. The film Kabaddi turned out be a huge success and managed to win two (2) National Award under the category of "Best film" & "Best Script" and many other awards. After owning so much of success from his debut film, Kandel decided to own his own production house with a group of professional film makers. Kandel along with his six more partners opened a production house called Cinema Art Private Limited & started producing films under the his own banner. Raunak Bikram Kandel is the Chairman of Cinema Art Pvt. Ltd. Kabaddi Kabaddi, a sequel of Kabaddi is the first film from his own banner in 2015. Kandel is a producer of the film. Kabaddi-Kabaddi again turns out to be a huge success with highest revenue collecting film, breaking all the previous record of Nepalese film history. Even Kabaddi-Kabaddi manages to win one (1) National Award under the category of "Best Actor" and more then ten (10) others awards on different categories. Kandel's third (3rd) project as a producer was Purano Dunga in 2016, which was also a successful movie and the song titled "Nira" was a hit song through nation & the film managed took some of the awards under the category of supporting actor and other category. Then following with his fourth (4th) project Gham Pani in 2017, was a join venture project between Cinema Art Pvt. Ltd, Hilight Nepal, Torch Light Production and Ashlesha Entertainment. The film Gham Pani was also a huge successful & manage to win National Special Film Award from Nepal Film Development Board (NFDB). Then coming up with is his fifth (5th) project Mr. Jholay, Kandel is an executive producer of the Film produced under the banner of Teken Khadka Production in 2018. Then comes his 6th movie Dimag Kharab which recently got released in fall 2023 & was another huge successful movie produced by Kandel. Raunak Bikram Kandel is also elected as an executive member of Nepal Film Producer Association 2 times in 2018 & 2023. Kandel has produced 6 movies through out his career. his credit are also included. Till date Kandel's produced films has won three (3) national awards, one (1) special film award and more then twenty (20) other awards on several other categories.