Nepali Bruce Lee , Shuny Bee
There are some Nepalese who surprise us, who make us feel proud of them; Shunny Bee is one such name. Shunny who has been interested in martial arts from the very early age and has achieved a lot in this field. At a very young age he had already stepped into the limelight of performing, competing and demonstrating all over Nepal. During the same time, Bollywood superstar Mithun Chackrobarty was impressed by his demonstration and invited him to try his luck in the movie industry in India. With wings of fancy, he headed to Bombay. Master Shuny established himself as a martial arts movie actor in Bollywood, though the road to success was not as smooth as he had anticipated. His performances can be notied in movies like ‘Janbaaz’, ‘Gehar Kanunie’,’Pyar Karke Dekho’ and ‘Dadagiri’.
He also started teaching in a number of schools and colleges around Bombay. His time there opened up his eyes and broadened his horizons and made him realize that the world was a much bigger place filled with the vastness of knowledge. He was eager to understand and experience what the world had to offer and stepped into the American soil in 1992, Los Angeles, California. Thereafter he had the opportunity to instruct classes as well as interact with many Master and Grand Master exchanging techniques and styles. From California he movie to Portland, Oregon in 1998 and established the Bee Martial Arts Academy from where he teaches his art and philosophy to his students.
In his long career Shunny is ranked with many titles such as Certified International Referee (World Taekwondo federation), Certified International Master Instructor (Kukkiwon, Korea), 6th Degree Black Belt (World Taekwondo Federation), Master of Instructional DVD and author of the book 'The Way of the Nunchaku'. He also acted in Hollywood movies like ‘Blazing Force’ and ‘Wounded by Fear and has worked with Jean-Claude Van Damme and other international superstars.
Now Shunny has made a Nepali movie 'Gorkha Rakshak' where he shows his brilliant martial art skills. The movie 'Gorkha Rakshak' is running towards its finality under the direction of Aakash Adhikari with the casting of Rekha Thapa, Shiva Shrestha, Samrat Sapkota, Sangha Ratna, Ramesh Adhikari and Shuny Bee. He says that Nepali audience will get to experience the real taste of martial arts through the movie; not made up action scenes like other movies. In the movie there is no use of wire, animation or trampline. The movie will introduce to the world the Bajra martial arts, which are indigenous to Nepal. Bee plays Bir, a man who is been training physically and spiritually at a monastery in Lumbini, the birth place of the Buddha. When his education is complete, he moves to Kathmandu when he finds himself surrounded by drug dealers, gang members and prostitutes. Bir vows to use his martial arts training to fight crime and protect the innocent.
So let's just wait for sometime till the movie hits the theatres. We can sense that our Nepali Bruce Lee has finally arrived.
