A film writer is waiting for someone in a restaurant with a script in hand. In a moment a person arrives. He is a famous film director of Nepal as is evident from his mannerisms, clothes and speech. He has no time to listen to the writer, nor any interest!

The writer is in the process of telling the screenplay. The director is more interested in the writer's pitching than the story itself. Even after listening to the director's rebuke, the writer opens the screenplay, the title reads - 'Actor: Take One'!

Directed by Rajan Bhusal, 'Actor: Take One' begins with the same scene as above, in the story of Kushal (Pradeep), a character who is trying to become a star. Before moving on to Kushal's story, let's go back to the opening scene. The director, who did not show much interest at first, was drawn towards him within a few moments of telling the story. The writer narrates the story in such a way that the director has now entered the story. What will be the end of the story now that the director came to meet the writer for a short time? How will the life of the character who has become a star take a turn? He listens to the author with eagerness. The writer narrates the story with so much fun that the story keeps the director hooked from the beginning to the end.

Ironically, this scene shown on screen is the exact opposite, director Bhusal's

. Bhusal has failed to tell the story of 'Actor: Take One' the way the author has told the story in this scene. As a result, the way the director's attention is drawn to the scene, his narration does not draw the audience's attention. With a flimsy screenplay, weak dialogues and poor performance, Pradeep starrer 'Actor: Take One' does not reach even one side of this scene. After all, where did the reading of Bhusal's story go wrong? 

is the element that all story readers in the world are grasping, especially in story reading, struggle and goal attainment. For example, a character has to climb Mount Everest, but the character does not have both legs. The character is so poor that buying a prosthetic leg is another challenge for him. However, the character goes to great lengths to achieve his goal and finally acquires a prosthetic leg. But buying legs does not mean that the character will easily climb Mount Everest. As other problems arise on his journey to this end, the character struggles with an even bigger problem as he moves forward. When you reach the point where your dreams come true, you have to climb another mountain of challenges. Taking this element of story reading, the author weaves the story in such a way that the audience's attention becomes concentrated in the story. However, director Bhusal has forgotten to weave this element of storytelling in the film. 

Kushal, the character who grew up in a lower class family, somehow becomes a big screen star. However, he is far beyond the hard work, perseverance and exercise required to become a star. All he has is 'over confidence'. With the aim of abusing his 'over confidence', director Vivek (Divyadev) tries to make Kushal a star.   Kushal doesn't have to struggle to become a 'star' in the

film. Like, Vivek suggests some ways to Kushal to become a star from jail. To expose Dheerajang (Rajballabh) who has trapped them, his daughter Prerna (Divya) will be trapped! But Kushal doesn't have to struggle for that. Prerna gets attracted to that skill. Whenever Kushal moves forward towards his goal, his problem is the same 

s are getting solved. A friend comes to Kushal when he needs them. What happens when the main character of the story starts getting everything easily to fulfill his purpose? Screenplay  The

becomes intriguing. The audience's attention wanders from the story. Due to this weakness of the film, the audience's attention is diverted from Kushal's story. The subplot that can be easily guessed also weakens the reading of the story. 

The story of two girlfriends in the same house could have been presented in an interesting way. One scene of the film reminds me of the scene of 'Money Heist'. Towards the end of the film, some attempts have been made to open up the audience. That might have been an attempt for the second part (!) of the