Kathmandu, April 30 :     What Jayalalitha has done to India, Nepal-born Bollywood actress Manisha Koirala is attempting to do in Nepal. If the Tamil star-turned-politician set in motion a chain of events in Delhi which brought down the BJP-led government, Mumbai-based Manisha Koirala?s aim here is to prevent the ruling Nepali Congress from getting a majority in Parliament as Nepal gears up for its third elections in eight years on Monday. Manisha is not a candidate in Nepal?s elections. Nor is she campaigning. But voters across the country are discussing a two-page, emotional appeal which the actress has distributed here in defence of her father, Prakash Koirala, who has been denied a ticket by the Nepali Congress. In typical filmi style, the appeal recalls what Prakash Koirala had told his daughter when she was a little girl. ?Politics is the way to fulfil your dream for your country?, he had said. She goes on: ?Do tell me, daddy, what happened to your dream? Are you less qualified or less deserving than others? Are you not a nationalist? Are you a thorn in the side of many who want to use the election platform to fulfil their own greed whilst our nation suffers?? In an election which is surprisingly devoid of anti-Indian rhetoric, Prakash Koirala sticks out like a sore thumb. But the Nepali Congress, which is upset with his antics, has neutralised him by discreetly exposing the hypocrisy of his anti-India platform. Prakash Koirala, Nepali Congress insiders say, has been railing at India in public, but he has been lobbying in private in Mumbai and New Delhi to get the Reserve Bank of India to exempt his actress daughter from paying in foreign currency for purchases of property in India. They say Prakash Koirala?s dissidence is no threat to the party, his ancestry as the son of B.P. Koirala, founder of the Nepali Congress notwithstanding. But his actress daughter?s popularity here is another thing. Manisha?s is one of the best known faces in Nepal, where access to people is difficult and politicians do not often get to meet their voters because of the terrain and inhospitable weather. Manisha, though, is not the only Bollywood actress who has become a talking point here in a closely fought election. Some time ago, as Nepal was drifting towards an election because of a fractured Parliament elected in 1994, actress Madhuri Dixit arrived here for a much-publicised world-wide audio release of the movie Arzoo. At the release, she talked of Nepal being the most beautiful part of India and got her Nepali history all wrong. For India-baiters here, it was just the opportunity they were waiting for. A theatre where her movie was playing was attacked and she was besieged by angry crowds at her hotel. Her hosts quickly smuggled Dixit out of Nepal and once she was back in Mumbai, she sent a public apology through a signed statement. ?I was deeply saddened to hear that my comment about Nepal was misunderstood,? she stated. Like Manisha?s appeal, Dixit?s apology provides a colourful aside to voters here who are otherwise apathetic towards an election campaign which, many expect, will produce yet another divided and indecisive verdict. With Dixit and Manisha in focus, Nepali film producers have also jumped into the sidelines of the poll campaign, hoping to make some good business of politics. Upset that their films are at the receiving end of Bollywood, they recently organised a boycott of Hindi cinema, hoping to cash in on any nationalist sentiment. But alas, the campaign was short-lived, with even hard-headed nationalists preferring Hindi films.