Star is a Nepali feature film that was released in theatres on 18 October 2013. The film was directed by Mahendra Budhathoki, who also wrote the story, the screenplay and the dialogue, and the executive producer of the project was Laxman Subedi. The title of the film points directly to the world of cinema and celebrity, and the story dealt with the ambitions and the life of the people connected with the film industry itself.

The cast of the film included Sumina Ghimire, Niraj Baral, Ramesh Budhathoki, Ganesh Upreti and Ram Keshar Bogati in the main roles. Ganesh Upreti was among the most respected actors of Nepali cinema at the time, and his presence gave the film a strong link with the older generation of the audience, while the younger performers of the cast connected it with the newer viewers of the period.

Star was released in the month of October 2013, in the middle of the theatre season of the year, at a time when the Nepali industry was producing a large number of films of every scale. The film was presented as an entertainment picture with the usual elements of the commercial cinema of the day — drama, humour and music — and its promotion was carried out through the film portals and the media of Kathmandu.

The film is now part of the catalogue of the Nepali films of the year 2013, a year that is remembered in the industry for the many productions that were released. The complete movie has been officially uploaded on YouTube and is available for free viewing, which allows the present-day audience to watch the work of the actors and the crew of that era. It remains an example of the entertainment films of the early 2010s in the Nepali industr

Star was one of the many new releases the Nepali industry presented in the year 2013, a time when the halls of the country were filled with films of every kind, from the love stories to the family dramas of the season. The picture was brought to the audience of the whole country through the regular distribution of the period, and the trailers and the posters of the film were shared by the local media in the weeks before it reached the theatres of Kathmandu and the rest of Nepal.