Career
His first film was Pinjada, released in 2000, in which he jumped off a seven storied building of Manipal Hospital. Nikhil is one of the four children, two girls and two boys, of Govinda Upreti and Bhoj Kumari Upreti. He was awarded with Rastriya Nagarik Swarna Samman in 2006.
Nikhil is well known for doing his own stunts.
He has been loved and appreciated by many nepali movie audiences ever since the release of his first movie. Some of his hit movies are Pinjada, Nikhil dai, Hami Tin Bhai, dhadkan, Bhairav and Lootera.
After years in Mumbai (Home of Bollywood), he was scheduled to direct and act in a Hindi movie called Commitment. He made a comeback to Nepali Film Industry with "Bhairav" in 2015, which was a commercial hit.
Nikhil was interested in sports like football (soccer) and Karate in his childhood days.
When he got a black belt in Karate, he moved to Mumbai to worked in different movies as an assistant fight director and a stunt boy. Apart from working in movies he was also studying acting in which he got a Diploma in acting from Roshan Taneja’s studio, Mumbai. He likes to mention his work experience as an assistant fight director in ABCL company of Amitabh Bachhan.
He started his career from the movie Pijada in 2000, in which he jumped from a building of Manipal Hospital for that movie and it was a superhit.
He has more than 45 films with lead role and regarded as one of the most successful and popular actor in Nepal. Nikhil’s next film was the 2003"s another hit movie Maya Ko Jaal.
Nikhil acted dozen of films including Nepal’s most popular director Tulsi Ghimire’s Desh and three Bhojpuri films from the Indian makers. He was welcomed with the award as a Best in First National Films Award 2005 from the movie title Hami Tin Bhai.
He was also awarded with Rastriya Nagarik Sworna Samman in 2006.
As a producer, he worked in Savadhan, a completely different track movie and it was also a hit. Similarly he played dual roles—police and criminal in the movie Abhimanyu. The action star made a comeback after 4 years to the Nepali Film Industry.
His movie Bhairav released on June 5th and was a bluckbuster.
The movie previously scheduled to release earlier in 2015 was delayed because of the shooting of Lootera.