Navin Awal

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Navin Awal is a Nepali film director and writer. He has directed hundreds of ad films, a short film; 1 Percent [1] and the first Nepali science fiction movie with a social story, Bijuli Machine . [2] [3]

Awal is the creative director at Silhouette Media, Nepal. [4] [5] [6]

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