Last year’s comedies also deviated from the ‘slapstick’ genre, effectively carried by popular television series, and instead used satiristic overtones to tell stories of ‘comedy of errors’. This trend, it seems, will continue this year as well with filmmakers like Nischal Basnet, Rambabu Gurung, Hemraj BC, Dpendra K Khanal, Ujwal Ghimire, Sudarshan Thapa, Nilu Dolma Sherpa, all experimenting with variations of the genre. But if history serves right, one single genre cannot sustain an entire film industry.
