Birth: 1952, Lalitpur 
Death: 2021, Kathmandu

Entertaining the Nepali audiences, most famously in his comic mien of ‘Mattare’, Ramesh KC contributed to the Nepali theatre and film industry for nearly 50 years. 

Born in Imadol, Lalitpur, KC grew up with singing, dancing, and acting as his hobbies. After tying the knot with Lila KC in 1970, he started his professional acting career. In the beginning, he used to be involved with a yearly cultural program. 

His journey as an actor started with his role in a play called ‘Anjaan’. In the following years, he acted in other plays like ‘Ke Sakkali Ke Nakkali’, ‘Muna Madan’, ‘Prithvi Narayan’, ‘Modi Aain’, ‘AKN’, and serials like ‘Nautanki Maailo’, ‘Khotai Khatal’ and many more.

Again, he was most popular among the Nepali audience in his role of ‘Mattare’, a drunkard character, in the TV series ‘Khottai Khane’. Most recently, he appeared in ‘Ekadeshko Churifuri’ and ‘Harke Hawaldar’ TV shows.

Altogether, KC acted in more than 40 stage plays, over 3,000 street and radio dramas and above 20 TV shows. He also made appearances in 13 popular Nepali movies and in numerous music videos. Besides this, KC taught music, singing and dancing at Mahendra Adarsha School before retiring from the job in 2000.

He had taken up acting at a time actors had to spend their own money on the roles they played. In the past few years, KC had thus expressed his great pride in witnessing the Nepali theater and film industry modernize and practice different kinds of storytelling.

As an artist, he always stood up for preserving the country’s artistic heritage. He urged the government to invest and pay more attention to protecting different languages, cultures, festivals, dances, attires, and songs.

KC, who had for long been suffering from heart disease, passed away at the age of 69, on 19 September 2021 on the set of Harke Hawaldar. He is survived by his wife, two sons, and three daughters.