Background
Lalit Bhusal was born in Butwal, Nepal and spent his childhood both Nepal and India as his father was in the Indian Army, He is a resident of United Kingdom since 2000.
Lalit Bhusal was born in Butwal, Nepal and spent his childhood both Nepal and India as his father was in the Indian Army, He is a resident of United Kingdom since 2000.
Bhusal worked for various film projects since 2001 and he started his own Film making career in 2012 with a short film "TRASH Oregon TREASURE". He works as a Cameraman, Director of Photography, Producer and Director., Also worked in production management for various Asian and English film projects. He is a creator director of the award winning Short film "Leeches".
The film was awarded "Award of Merit" in the International film festival in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The film highlights the unnoticed illegal Human Trafficking for sex trade in the United Kingdom. Lalit says " The idea of making of "Leeches " came across in his mind when he visited Mumbai, India some years ago. There he noticed many young girls/women are being forced into prostitution, sold to sexual slavery.
He furthers says "When I moved to United Kingdom, I thought sexual slavery wouldn"t exists in in the Western countries but shockingly I heard the horrific stories of young western girls too being trafficked & sold to sexual slavery. The situation and circumstances were different but problem was similar in the West too.
The western girls are being lured by promises of love, excitement, deception, groomed, drugs and alcohol and eventually they are forced into sex trade." He added "I felt I had to do something to raise awareness on this serious issue here in the United Kingdom".
After spending 4–5 months on finalizing script of the film, he finally teamed up with 28 hard working creative Cast and Crew from United Kingdom and Europe made the Short Film Leeches. According to Lalit. his intention behind The film was to raise awareness about the issue of Human Trafficking in the United Kingdom, he emphasis that "it"s not just a third world issue. Human Trafficking is happening in here in the United Kingdom too and it is a serious crime and a violation of Human Rights.
He hopes that this film may contribute to educating and preventing human trafficking thus bringing about psychological change in the Human Traffickers."
2016: CRUSHED Workplace Integration Nurturing Good Students: Bhusal is currently working on a "Crushed Wings".
This film is fully dedicate to raise awareness on issues about abuse on women, domestic violence, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and force marriages.