Gaurav Pote

Gaurav Pote has been with M&S VMAG since the very beginning — first as a Contributor, and now as a Multimedia Producer with the Video Team and Sub-editor with the Editorial Team. He is our in-house food and tech writer, besides which he also writes longforms and features about art, music, movies and videos.


Latest from Gaurav Pote

Youthful theatrics

As Pathshala concludes its annual College Theatre Festival, we take a look at how Nepali theatre’s renaissance is invigorating the youth

Raging against the machine

The excellently stitched-together narrative and the video thus work together to light a fire under our behinds. And do something about changing our reality

Documentaries in vogue

As the 10th edition of Film Southasia (FSA) chugs ahead in full swing, documentary makers and enthusiasts are eager to celebrate and share the art of storytelling that documentaries are. But they have the rest—those new to the genre or non-inclined towards non-fiction films—wondering just what is it about these films that draws people to them.

Hauntingly perfect

The music video for Where Have You Been is a veritable groundbreaker. For much too long, large shares of Nepali music videos have been monotonous and unexceptional. Conforming to a traditional mantra of dancers performing in synchrony with a backdrop of picturesque landscapes, an undiscerning eye, at first glance, would accuse the industry of being stuck in a bygone era. Even as new exciting artists continue to transform Nepali music with tracks that fuse traditional sensibilities with modern tastes, their music videos seem stuck in the throes of a sappy and shallow formulae best consigned to the past.

From composition to completion

For a celebrity musician, Bipul Chettri is not all that great at being famous. He’s taken ages to come into the limelight. Having been so engrossed in classical music for over a decade and a half, mastering every chord and guitar thrum

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