Kathmandu, May 3: The Film Artistes’ Association of Nepal (FAAN) organised a press conference recently and pledged the association has reactivated itself for the professional rights and welfare of all the artistes.

It also denied that it has merged with the so-called unified Nepal National Film Artistes’ Association (NNFA).

The Association had even formed a committee for the unification move but later backed out from the process and reinstated itself since the NNFA had made such provisions under which only the artistes working for celluloid “big screen” movies could become its members, a FAAN press release distributed on the occasion stated.

The NNFA was not representative all the film artistes, the press release further reads.

Replying to journalists’ queries, founder president of the association Rabindra Khadka and member Mohan Niraula alleged that the so-called unified film artistes association included only 10 per cent of all the celluloid film artistes.

They said since all the records of the financial transactions of the NNFA were not maintained properly, the concerned persons should make the financial statement of the association public in a transparent manner.

Meanwhile in Bhadrapur, a gathering of litterateurs and journalists at local Birtamod recently set up “Niyatra Publications”, a publication house which aims to publish the best but yet unpublished works of various writers.

The publications would also contribute to the enrichment of Nepali literature by undertaking various promotional activities.

Prakash Budhathoki, Lok Raj Dhakal and Krishna Baral are respectively the Vice-President, secretary and treasurer of the institution set up under the chairmanship of Krishna Dharabasi.

The other members of the publications include Chhabi Lal Khatiwada, Bishnu Kumar Bhattarai, Komal Prasad Pokharel, Lekhnath Bhattarai, Laxman Dhakal, Ratna Mani Nepal and Deepak Dhakal. It is learnt that the institution will publish yet unpublished books of both Nepali and Indian writers writing in Nepali.