Let the Best Man Win What Makes a Real Man? at This Year’S Manhunt International, the Men Will Speak for Themselves on Being an “Alpha Male”
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www.fridayweekly.com.np Every Thursday | ISSUE 189 | RS. 20 SUBSCRIBER COPY | ISSN 2091-1092 2 OCTOBER 2013 !^ cflZJfg @)&) updates on fridayweekly.com.np in 9 772091 109009 EATING OUT KATHMANDU II 2013 On stands3 Oct LOOK OUT www.facebook.com/fridayweekly FOR YOUR FRIENDS. Let the Best Man Win What makes a real man? At this year’s Manhunt International, the men will speak for themselves on being an “alpha male”. Continued on page 2 Model: Bikram Koirala Bikram Model: Who’s the man? Grooming Maskey and Shruti Singh Shah Now how do we judge a man? Grooming involves session will be present at the event. The getstarted With our constant exposure to of personality development, Manhunt International event start off with our picks ladies’ pageants we know what motivational programs and will this year be held in China in a winner should look like. But youth awareness in creating good November. the line is vague when it comes individuals out of the contestants to man. Is he supposed to be whether they win the final title The winner Let the Best Man Win handsome or smart? Or both? or not. “These guys are working Besides the title and an “There are different criteria we very hard to learn and explore. opportunity to represent Nepal Anubhuti Poudyal judge the contestants on. We had It is important to be committed internationally in China, he an audition round in August where in the event. I think they are will be given an award of Rs. o the ladies have been event was first organized in more than fifty individuals took getting more motivated as we get 1,00,000 and a Honda bike appreciated nationally and Singapore and was the first of part. We chose the 16 we thought closer to the competition,” shares among other things. The first Sinternationally for quite its kind to help guys reach their were talented and presentable,” Saxena. and second runner-ups will some time now, for their grace, desired place with the elegance says Anup Saxena, CEO of GEE. be given gifts and national beauty, style and intelligence. and style they possess and learn Why a guy’s pageant? recognition. With shifting gender roles, during the course of the event. Criteria “So far, there have been only So Manhunt International is all we are witnessing more and In 1993, this event that gained The guys will be judged on a few platforms to train men prepared to set the stage on fire more involvement of women grand acclaim in Singapore the basis of their physique, and make them represent their as hunks take on each other and in man’s world. We call it turned into an international personality, hair, friendship, countries internationally,” adds compete to be awarded the title women empowerment. But how event where guys competed in popularity and talent. Hunks will Saxena. The organizers maintain of an alpha male. We wish them about including men in certain representing their countries have a tough time impressing that intentional training for all the luck. Let the best man aspects of the world that have internationally. judges if they do not have a men is limited, so Manhunt win indeed! seen mostly women? We take a In Nepal, it has been a personality and an attitude to be International started off as the closer look at the male pageant, trend to select the winner of able to represent Nepal. first of its kind to help men reach Manhunt International. Manhunt International each the international standard of year for eight years now. This The contestants competition. The history year, in collaboration with Dabur This year, there are 16 contestants The Manhunt Contest started Nepal and organized by Group between the ages of 16 and 27, The final event internationally in 1987 in of Event Entertainers (GEE), chosen from 57 during audition. The final event will be held Singapore when the absolute Prostyle Manhunt International They have been groomed in Army Officer’s Club on 28 need to create an international Nepal 2013 will be held where almost every day with a group September 2013 and will be aired platform for men became 16 contestants will compete for of individuals having immense live on Image Chanel. Artists too apparent to ignore. This the title. experience in this field. such as Indira Joshi, Deeya page3 make your statement under surveillance Hemanta Rana Hemanta Rana is a name synonymous to Sufi songs in Nepal. But all this fame didn’t come to him easy. After years of hard work and struggle, he finally skyrocketed to success with his song Laijaare. This week, Fr!day catches up with the soulful crooner and gets a glimpse of one day in his life. Akriti Shilpakar the early hours so he makes it just orange juice. He is also collecting a in time enough for his mom to not 10:10 am box of his album CDs here. 6:00 pm miss her flight to Nepalgunj. After thirty minutes of car grooming, “I am going to Australia tomorrow for The awards have been distributed he rides his squeaky clean Dihatsu a musical tour. So, the CDs are for with results as he expected earlier. Charade through the stretch of dusty distribution purpose,” shares Rana. But that won’t stop him from having Chabahil to reach Mid-Valley College a nice dinner with his friends. Rana 8:00 am in Gyaneshwor. It is the talent round and his friends drive down to GG He is back home and finally gets of Manhunt International Nepal and Machaan for an organic meal. some rest. A quick shower later, he he is among the three judges. sits down for a light breakfast. He 2:18 pm After lunch, he rushes to a friend’s On most of the weekdays, he is prefers black tea in the morning busy with live performances in along with some snacks. Today he home nearby and quickly changes into the shirt and jacket he had in some of the selected restaurants settles for the sacred bread and jam. 11:00 am around town. Judgement Day his bag. He needs to be at the Hits FM awards by 2:45 pm. He is a little early for the program. “I keep singing almost every day, in 5:30 am It doesn’t start till 11:30, so after an “I am nominated in a few categories one show or the other, so that actually Goodmorning Sunshine entire morning of running around, he but I am not expecting any wins,” makes up for the practice I need, “ Rana habitually wakes up every day finally settles down for a while and says Rana. He is assured of it confesses a blushing Rana. at this time. Getting up early means engages in some chit-chat with the because he doesn’t think that the he gets to do more things during contestants and his fellow judges. songs he has been nominated for the day. And today is a very busy day are of an award-winning caliber. for the Sufi singer. 9:00 pm 1:30 pm Party is over The two-hour long event finally After a long dinner with his 9:00 am ends. He seems to have enjoyed it, 2:55 pm friends, Rana drives back home. 5:45 am He dresses up in a blue shirt and especially the magic tricks involving He is quite worked up but he has He heads off to Yoster Gym located black jeans. He has a long day ahead cards. He poses for a group picture some unfinished business to take at Sinamangal. On regular days, he with two events to attend. He with the contestants and rushes to care of. would work out for two hours knows he will have no time to come Durbar Marg. He is starving. which includes cardio and normal back home and change so he packs “I have some packing to do. I need to gym routines. Today, he has to drop up another t-shirt and a jacket in a take ample clothes for the tour.” He his mom at the airport, so he cuts bag and leaves to get his car washed. sounds excited about the tour, but not the regime short and leaves for about the packing. home after an hour. 9:30 am Car Care 10:00 pm 7:15 am The traffic is unlike anything at this He reaches a little behind schedule Sleep tight Hurry up! hour, especially in this side of the but the show has yet to start. It has been a long day and a longer As soon as he reaches home, he town. He has to reach Chabahil to He settles for a seat beside the flight awaits him tomorrow. A stuffs his mother’s luggage in the get his car cleaned and it takes him 1:45 pm Sotang family, but decides to move goodnight sleep is what he needs car and speed drives his way to the about twenty minutes to reach there At Nanglo in Durbarmarg, he somewhere else. He finds a spot and thus, the Sufi singer hits the airport. The street is deserted in from his home in Old Baneshwor. orders noodles and a glass of amidst his friends. sack and calls it a day. people the buzz-makers Goal for a Goal Patrick Barclay argues that football, which has conquered the world, is the most “morally interesting” sport and we will have to agree on that, seeing how the game has united all Nepalis to cheer for our national team.