Shanti Maskey, was a Nepalese actress who acted in more than 50 films.
18 Facts About Shanti Maskey
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Shanti Maskey was one of the first actors of Nepali film industry.
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Shanti Maskey was a recipient of Gorkha Dakshin Bahu, the second highest award awarded by the Kingdom of Nepal.
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Shanti Maskey had participated in the struggle for democracy in 1951.
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Shanti Maskey was a singer and a stage actor before she started her film career.
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Shanti Maskey first went to Kathmandu, and then to Calcutta, accompanied by her mother, in search of opportunities in the performing arts.
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Shanti Maskey acted in some stage plays in Calcutta but returned to Nepal when the 1951 revolution started.
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Shanti Maskey first reached Biratnagar where she sang revolutionary songs in Radio Democracy during the revolution.
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Shanti Maskey acted in more than 50 Nepali films in the subsequent decades.
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Shanti Maskey acted in Bollywood films Kissa Kathmandu and Panchvati.
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Shanti Maskey was an established stage actor before she entered the film industry.
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Shanti Maskey made her name as a singer of modern songs.
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Shanti Maskey was the founding coordinator of Nepal Cine Artists Association.
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Shanti Maskey had gotten injured when she jumped off Narayani bridge during the shooting of Santan in 1989.
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Shanti Maskey had to have a pacemaker installed after the incident, which she had had changed in 2006 and was in poor health in her last years.
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Shanti Maskey had been living with Latika, granddaughter, in the latter's home in Bhainsepati, Lalitpur, where she died from complications related to her heart problem, on 18 January 2011, at the age of 83.
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Shanti Maskey's body was kept at Nepal Pragya Pratisthan, Kamaladi for final tributes, before being cremated at Pashupati that same day.
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Shanti Maskey was the recipient of Gorkha Dakshin Bahu, the second highest honour awarded by the Kingdom of Nepal, among dozens of other awards.