Kunjana Ghimire

Kunjana Ghimire (Nepali: कुन्जना घिमिरे), popularly known by her serial name Suntali is a Nepali comedian, actor and even a social worker. She is one of the main characters of the Nepali TV series Meri Bassai. She is considered as one of the Nepal's talented and good comedian ever because she had played various roles in her own sitcom Meri Bassai. She is highly active in social work too.

Kunjana was born in Lalitpur District of Nepal where her early life and schooling was completed. She used to help her father in his field during her schooling. She used to perform dancing during her school life. Her dances were well appreciated by many people. So, she ran away from this field hoping to be a good dancer, actor and a comedian. Her first successful career as an actor was Meri Bassai. There, she met Sitaram Kattel and fell in love with him. They got married in 2009.

Kunjana started to play the role of Suntali, love interest and later the wife of Dhurmus in the Nepali television program Meri Bassai from 2006. Her acting career got popularly highlighted as her role, acting and the television program got high acclaimed among the Nepalese citizens.

DhurmusSuntali Foundation

Kunjana Ghimire, along with Sitaram Kattel is the founding member of DhurmusSuntali Foundation. It is the very foundation which has recently completed Sindhupalchock Giranchour Integrated Model Colony Construction Project (Nepali: सिन्धुपाल्चोक गिरान्चौर एकीकृत नमुना बस्ति निर्माण परियोजना). The formal handing ceremony was held on the date of 28 October 2016 in the presence of present President of Nepal Bidhya Devi Bhandari, parents of Sitaram and Kunjana, Madan Krishna Shrestha and Hari Bansha Acharya. The construction project has built a colony of 67 houses with dedicated areas for children parks, public taps, public toilets, parking areas and health post. The colony is dedicated for the victims of April 2015 Nepal earthquake.

Cleanliness programs

They are providing information related to cleanliness all over the Nepal. They have run a campaign for cleaning the Bagmati river of Kathmandu, one of the holy river of Nepal that flows beside Pashupatinath Temple. Appreciating and following the path of DhurmusSuntali, many different groups and social clubs are been established in Nepal to carry on the various cleanliness and social awareness programs in various places. Suntali (Kunjana Ghimire) and Dhurmus (Sitaram Kattel) are cleanliness ambassador of Nepal Government.

Television

• Meri Bassai