Our Team

Chairman

FOUNDER/CHAIRMAN,
MR SANTOSH SAPKOTA currently holds the position of Chairman and Event Director for Eplanet Private Limited, the official organizer of Heritage Pageants. Mr Sapkota, a man with plans and the vision to execute them effectively, he raised the company from domestic pageantry to International level. Mr. Sapkota started his career as a camera person in Movie House in the year 1999 AD. In the very next two years of span of time, Mr. Santosh was able to run the Movie House on his ownership and expanded it as a complete professional production and event management House.All those years, Movie House spearheaded by Mr Sapkota was one of the leading production houses, providing complete audio visual pre and post production services. The company was overwhelmed with contracts of various major events and beauty contests. With his foresight, Mr. Sapkota finally prioritized Movie House focused majorly on organizing beauty pageants with innovative concept. In the year 2064BS, the premier event was launched being related to school-going girls aged 6 to 13 years of age, known as ‘Little Miss Kathmandu’ and in the same year another title ‘Miss Teen Kathmandu’ branded by a leading stationery product called Point Line, to mention here, on the following years both the events initiated by Movie House became a brand name and got established as one of the highly acclaimed pageants in the domestic scene of Nepal.
 

Movie House started a reality show based on singing and dancing competition which was telecasted on Nepal Television and NTV 2 called CHAMPS NEPAL. This was another major achievement for the company and Mr. Santosh himself. The successful journey moved on for Mr. Sapkota with the responsibility of managing the SILVER JUBILEE CELEBRATION of Nepal Television (NTV NITE 2066) which was the mega celebration by NTV.With his successful accomplishment of his responsibility Mr. Sapkota was repeatedly hired by NTV for managing and executing their annual events. By 2010 Mr. Santosh was able to establish Movie House as a leading event management & event organizing company of the nation.In the year 2011 Mr. Sapkota formed another company named as Eplanet Private Limited as the sister concern of Movie House. Thereafter, Mr. Sapkota was more engaged in organizing various pageants in different regional areas of Nepal.In the year 2016 Eplanet extended its branch to Singapore and successfully conducted first ever Miss Mermaid Singapore 2016 under franchise of Eplanet Singapore, the winner represented Singapore at Miss Mermaid International 2016 held at Egypt. Miss Mermaid Singapore made a huge buzz at Singapore was able to set the record at Singapore book of records for presenting maximum number of mermaids at a time on the same stageIn the year 2011, from the initiation of major events like Mrs. Nepal, Little Miss Nepal and international affiliated events like Miss Teen International, Miss International, Mr. Sapkota was able to establish Event Planet Inc. in New York, USA, joining hands with his counterparts residing in USA. It started a pageant based for the Nepalese women residing at USA and Miss Nepal USA 2011 was borned and so far the event is running successfully getting better and bigger in its preceding editions.In 15 years, we are proud to announce that Mr. Santosh Sapkota is now the country director for more than 40 numbers of International beauty pageants for Nepal, India and Singapore. He is the Chairman of International pageant called Pageants of Heritage and the recipient of various international awards He was honored with many international recognitions, which including ASEAN POLITICS AND BUSINESS TITANS AWARD 2015 (SINGAPORE), GOLDEN PHOENIX AWARD 2015 (MALAYSIA), MARS AWARD 2015 (MALAYSIA), ASIA HONESTY ENTREPRENEUR AWARD 2015 (MALAYSIA), ENO YOUTH AWARD 2015 (MALAYSIA).The grandest honour for him happened in the year 2016 16th April, a title conferred to Mr. Sapkota as Dato’ Seri Paduka Santosh Sapkota by Maharaja of Kutai Mulawarman held in his kingdom, an ancient and historic kingdom in Indonesia, witnessed by thirty thousand mass of Indonesians in their National Stadium. This title honours him as a VVIP and assigned him with the designation as an Ambassador of Royal Kutai Mulawarman in Nepal. Mr. Sapkota was given a royal treat with VVIP escort to the Palace of the king where he was presented with the official Certificate of Ambassador of Royal Kutai Mulawarman in Nepal.In October 2016, Mr. Sapkota was honored as Ambassador of Peace for Nepal by World Organization of the Human rights Defenders – OMDDH, Brazil. Professional Status of Mr. Santosh Sapkota Affiliations:

  • Founder/Chairman – Eplanet Private Limited- Nepal
  • Chairman, Event Director- Heritage Pageants
  • Founder/Chairman – Movie House Pvt. Ltd – Nepal
  • Promoter Shareholder, Director – Event Planet INC. – USA
  • Founder/ Director – Eplanet Pte. Ltd – SINGAPORE
  • Founder/ Director – Event Planet Limited – MAURITIUS
  • Promoter Shareholder, Director – Sanjivani Hospital – Nepal
  • Founder/Chairman – We for All (Non Profitable Organization)
  • Founder/Director – Sahakarmi Cooperative Ltd.
  • Founder/Director – Training and Research Cooperative Ltd.
  • Member – FNCCI (Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce)
  • Member – Nepal Chamber of Commerce)

President

Mr Culvin Mavunga, the man with vision and plans full of energy and enthusiasm, determined to execute his plans to make things happen in an effective way. As the founding President of Heritage Pageants, Mister Culvin has played a role of guardian to nurture and bring up Heritage Pageants to this level with his knowledge, experience and dedication.Holds the position as Heritage Pageants President & International Relation CEO to Sipiti Media, Zimbabwe Founding President- Fashion League Founding President- Miss Environment

Organizer

EPLANET
Eplanet Private Limited is a one stop solution to plan memorable event moments globally. We provide our clients with our customised integrated in-house service portfolio that caters to all kinds of events. We manage events that bring people together for a common purpose, ensuring you that this purpose is achieved seamlessly. Eplanet has been in the pageantry scenario since it was established in 1999; it has successfully organized and managed several pageants at local, regional and national level, achieved diversified events like musical and cultural events, award functions, expos, conventions and corporate events. The organization is spearheaded by Mr Santosh Sapkota, he foresighted the demand for beauty awareness among the women, and he first initiated beauty pageants such as Little Miss Nepal, Miss Teen Nepal, Miss International Nepal and Mrs. Nepal. Eplanet expanded its boundaries and is able to achieve much success in co-organising numerous international events. Eplanet’s delegates were travelling worldwide to participate in international competitions; they were able to bring glories to the nation. Some have been represented are Little Miss Universe, Children of the Universe, Miss Teen Universe, Miss Teen Asia Pacific, Miss Intercontinental, Mrs. Universe, Mrs. Globe, Little Miss and Mister Eurasia, Little Miss and Mister World and Mrs. Top of the World. Eplanet is the co-organizer of Miss Nepal USA pageant since its inception in the year 2011.
 
Besides achieving the success at international pageant level through its representatives, Eplanet Pte Ltd, represented by Mr. Santosh Sapkota was felicitated by Asia Pacific Prestigious Business Brand 2015 at Singapore Orchid Country Club on 5th of January 2015. Whereas Mr Santosh Sapkota was acknowledged by An Inspiring Politics and Business Award.In the year 2014, Eplanet moved one step ahead to set a new dimension in the field of beauty pageants, it staged its first International Beauty Pageant in Nepal with its brand name ‘Miss Heritage International 2014’. The objective to promote Nepal and it’s richness in art, culture, tourism and heritage at global level, with the slogan,’ Buddha and Mount Everest are the identity of we Nepali’, eventually, heritage, culture, tourism promotion and conservation become our motto.Miss Heritage international event was been hosted with the aim of promoting tangible and intangible heritage while conserving the world heritage sites as been listed by UNESCO. In the year 2016 Eplanet extended its branch to Singapore and successfully conducted first ever Miss Mermaid Singapore 2016 under franchise of Eplanet Singapore, the winner represented Singapore at Miss Mermaid International 2016 held at Egypt. Miss Mermaid Singapore made a huge buzz at Singapore was able to set the record at Singapore book of records for presenting maximum number of mermaids at a time on the same stage