Kathmandu, Jan 8 (IANS) Bollywood's current top-grossing film '3 Idiots', which has replaced James Cameron's 'Avatar' in Nepal's cinemas, has now made its mark on the country's politics as well.
On Friday, when the three leaders of Nepal's major parties agreed to form a 'high-level political mechanism' to end the protracted impasse created by the fall of the Maoist government last year, a popular weekly compared the politicians to the '3 Idiots' - the trio of bumbling students played by Bollywood icon Aamir Khan, Sharman Joshi and R. Madhavan.
In a regular column, the Nepali Times weekly reprinted the photograph used in '3 Idiots' promos, showing the three engineering students perched on brightly coloured portable commodes mean for children.
However, 'The Ass' column replaced the three students with the photographs of Nepal's top three politicians: current Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, his challenger Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, whose Maoist party has called an indefinite nationwide general strike from Jan 24, and former premier Girija Prasad Koirala whose Nepali Congress (NC) party can make or mar governments in Nepal.
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