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Adhikary with his crewThey say Nepali tv industry has already entered into a declining phase. Creative juices are not flowing, not just in the context of fresh content, but presentation has also yet to improve.
Meanwhile, YouTube is slowly taking over the role tv played until the last few years. Unlike watching a show on the idiot box, YouTube doesn’t make you wait to watch your favorite shows, and you can watch them over and over again.
But the year 2017 saw something different. TV, for the first time in many years, excited young people–they actually wait for the shows to air on tv. It was first Nepal Idol that set the scene for reality shows in Nepal, then came Roadies.
The second episode of the show has already been aired, and we can already notice the difference. So, who is the brains behind it all?
He is a man who has been in the television business since the heydays of Nepal Television. Aman Pratap Adhikari, who is now the lead man of Himalaya Roadies, started off as a sports journalist and script writer. Following stints at Kantipur TV, where he anchored Scoreboard, the station’s main sports shw, Adhikary went to Scotland to study Media and Film making.
After rurning from Scotland he worked for Terai TV as a producer. The Flop Show and Kripa Unplugged were some of his most popular shows.Adhikary says he was excited. As an adventure junkie himself, he was over the moon. In a few weeks time, he was in Mumbai to seal the deal with Viacom 18, the owner of the franchise.
After several rounds of negotiations with the team, he was presented with a long list. One person he remembers talking to was director Debora, who had directed seven seasons of Roadies. Then, came the big question, “Will you guys be able to pull it off?”
Adhikary exactly knew that the fate of the project rested on the biggest question, to which he gave a big ‘yes’.
Adhikary wasted no time and started doing his homework after arriving in Nepal. His first challenge was to get the resources, mainly the cameras needed for the show.
An adventure-based show such as Roadies requires a lot of cameras.”The budget for the current season of Roadies India is around Rs 30 crore,” he says.
But in Nepal it was fixed at around Rs 6.2 crore and it was a big challenge for him to everything going with the amount. He used eight cameras: an NX5 for indoor shoot, three Gppros, 2 Ozmo (360 Degree) and Drones just for the audition round.
“Then, for the journey, I have two Sony Z10 cameras. But the biggest challenge was to operate 14-15 cameras at once,” he says.
But when Adhikary needed hel,p Pramod Karki, the director of photography, has been around. With some help from Karki Adhikari created a complete blue print of the whole show.
From drawing maps to making field visits, creating line ups, designing sounds, and lights, everything was planned. “The best part was the whole journey covered the mountains, hills and the terai. This will be reflected in the episodes to come,” he explains.
The Roadies team from India was supposed to come to Nepal tp observe the the shoot and the editing, but after going through Adhikary’s design, they loved it so much that not a single person form India has come to Nepal till date to tell Adhikary what needs to be done.
At the end of the day, Roadies is a franchise and the the judges of the show had to be similar with the ones in the Indian version. Roadies India presented a list of few names and Adhikary also had a list. After several auditions, Adhikary and his team came up with the best names possible. Roadies India also suggested that a female judge, Dia Maskey be made a judge. Similarly, Raymond Das Shrestha and Laure, big names among the youth were also selected.
During the first audition, the team was very scared. The location was Pokhara and the first-ever constant was a female. The turnout was good and Adhikary could see competition. Auditions in Kathmandu, Dharan and other places went better than expected and the number of contestants grew.
