Mangaluru: Award winning Mangalorean Filmmaker Sandeep Malani has created not just one record but several records with his latest venture ‘Maa – yeh cinemaa hai’. This Hinglish film that is of 3 hours 45 minutes duration has been entirely shot on an iPhone camera.
The film that is scheduled to be telecast as a weekly series on Daijiworld 24×7 features more than 100 actors in it. Malani had initially planned to title it as ‘Filmalani 100’.
Sandeep Malani, says, ‘‘I have grown up watching films since my childhood as my family atmosphere was always filmy with my maternal side on theatre, music and dance, my father was a film distributor and a theatre manager for several years. Also I grew up with a owning music shop that of record players, audio and video cassettes to CD and DVD library. Besides my profession of being a Film Journalist to theatre, music, dance, acting and direction – my life has been totally devoted to cinema. With the celebration of 100 years of Indian Cinema 4 years ago, I had given a special tribute with an event in Mangalore and in Sydney with my production house Malani Talkies. That’s when I decided to make a film with newcomers giving a tribute to Cinema and titled it ‘Filmalani 100’. Although the plan started, due to some circumstances, it didnot take off. And today, with an iPhone camera, I have completed a film, a dream of making it with 100 plus stars that turned out to be ‘Maa – Yeh Cinemaa Hai’.
The film series has actors from the film, television industry of Bollywood and South Indian films, besides newcomers, models, dancers, theatre artists and common man who are working professionals and housewives, not connected to the Entertainment industry. A whole lot of talents from Mangalore are also in the series from Tulu, Kannada and Konkani film industry.
The entire cast of the film that appears from the first scene to the last scene of the film features (in order of their appearance): Jyothi Colaco, Chitra Mitra, Vinay Saldanha, Melisha Monteiro, Deekshith Poojari, Rakraj Roshan, Lavanya Shetty, Ahanthem Anupama, Sujala Roy, Mohammed Aashiq, Danel Jaison, Ranjeet Jha, Velu Murugan, Meena Malani, Sanjukta Ghosh, Bharath Laksmikanth, Akash Hora, Abhishek Sen, Shona Chhabra, Harpeet Singh Wadhwa, Ivy Fernandes, Roy Sequeira, Divya Dais, Kamakshi Udaiyar, Violet Tauro, Baby Sharon E David, Vincent Tauro, Gita Suvarna, Tresilla Dsouza, Dinesh S, Denzil Pereira, Mohammed Kabeer, Clara Pinto, Deepali Khambadkone, Vishal Digani, Reshma Malani, Nigel Pereira, Kkewal Vyas, Reshmi Mirchandani, Bhavna Hemdev, Prayas Singh, Jyothi Thadani, Vishan Thadani, Meenu, Anita Vaswani, Juliet Savio Aranha, Roseline Sequeira, Joseph Rajan, Baby Isabelle, Baby Alvia Fugil, Meghana Shetty, Kasturi Shetty, Ananya Rao, Vaibhav Phuskele, Jagruti Mehta, Vivek Mishra, Meenu Chadda, Roshan Pandey, Priyanka Trilok Raina, Sachin Shetty, Subboo Singh, Raj Kesari, Raazesh Sharma, Bijoy Anand Shivram, Jayesh Lalwani, Riz Qureshi, Yeong Wu, Kuldeep Shashi, Shruti Alva, Sharmila Acharya, Dhanya Shetty, Dikeshi Rani, Canyut Fernandes, Nikhil Kulal, Anusha Pai, Asha Shetty, Asha Chandramohan, Saiheel Rai, Jamuna Amma, Arun Kumar, Tushara Jannat, Shivranjan K, Selvam Mathappan, Karthik Venkatesh, Manjula Pillai, Shree Ram, Madhura Nayak, Sarita Jannat, Master Sriman Dulam, Baby Aditi Dulam, Mahesh Dulam, Anitha Dulam, Silver Rensan Malani, Maria Sonali, Mohammed Sayeem, Dr Richard Castelino, Leena Castelino, Ivan Fernades, Vinny Fernandes, Jyothi Harindranth, Mahendra Pandey, Anant Vijay Joshi, Shubha Raksha, Mann Hora, Sharanya Jit Kaur, Chirag Kundapur, Cherrie Ash, Ajith Shetty, Umesh KT, Jaison Melroy, Jaison Dais, Avinash Poojary, Christopher Vijayanand, Marina Roopa, Sheetal Malani, Santosh Chawla, Kashish Chawla, Masahiro Monoi, Chanda Baburaj, Cliff Janke, Dilip Malani, Sandeep Kamath, Lavina Consalves, Ashwin Saraf, Leslie Fernandes, Anil Maxim Gonsalves, Melson Dsouza, Vivek Punjabi, Hameed, Clerry Menezes, Valerian Menezes, David Mathews, Shivam Kataria, Manish More, Abraam Pandey, Thirumalesh GK, Sarojini Shetty, Chittranjani, Janu Arasu, Shridevi BU, Shipra Nayak, Heena Tyagi, Syed Sad, Mohammed Hashim, Trilok Shroff, Sudha, Master Samuel, Master Daniel, Prince Malani, Alwyn Dsouza, Nishita Saldanha, Baby Angel Dsouza, Aurobindo Kiriyakere, Clement Joel Sequeira, Babli Shome Dutta, Deepak Ram, Ashwin Dcostsa, Geeta Sharma, Xavier Fernandes, Praveen Louis, Shylaja Louis, Baby Chyrislnn, Cynthia Lobo, Lily Dsouza, Nora Menezes, Helen Gonsalves, Daisy Lobo, Dhina Dsouza, Diana Tauro, Ashwin Rao, Sharan Shetty, Varsha Acharya, Lalita Kumari, Lily Pereira, Patcy Lobo, Gulobi Fernandes, Naina Fernades. Adding to this mega list are people from Milagres Church Parishioners, Lions Club members, and Ladies Social Service League members.
Maa – yeh cinemaa Hai is a film on mother sentiment and it also has a special segment of woman empowerment for which several celebrities and models have actively been given a video message that will be featured in the series and those include actresses Sudha Chandran, Adaa Khan, Pooja Gandhi, Sonal Monteiro, Ester Noronha, Harshika Poonachha, Geetha Sharma to name a few. The good wishes also come from Kalpana Pandit, Sowmya Murthy, Jaz Shabbir and Salome Pinto.
The ones behind the camera include popular Kannada actress Jayalakshmi and playback singer Deepa Narayan who have rendered their voice for characters in the film. The others include Rishi, Dhruv Soni, Sanidh Poojary, Abhishek Rajput, Sudarshan Reddy, Anil More, Ghata Panchal, Soma Basu, Shrikanth Nair, Vinoo Varghese, Nishant Varghese, Vivek Giree, Manoj Dsouza, Karthik, Gurudutt Srikanth, Govind Kurnool, Priya Yadav, Shwetha.
The technical team includes Editing by Santosh Chawla with team support by Vignesh Thanupillai, Srinivas Srikanth, Ravi Yadav with music composed by Karthik Venkatesh, Nitin Acharya, Punit Ranganath, Prajoth Dsa, Ameya Nayak and Ishaan Arora. Produced by Ranjeet Jha and coproduced by Edward Dsouza, Santosh Chawla and Sandeep Malani, the few technicians above are also co-owners of the project which is been made under the banner of Malani Talkies, RKJ Productions, The Studio Agency and Punit Studios, News Karnataka, Baalkani Live and Daijiworld are the media partners. The film series is conceptualized with screenplay, dialogues, camera and direction by Sundeep Malani.
Daijiworld 24×7 telecasts ‘Maa –Yeh Cinemaa Hai’ from 14th May every Sunday at 7.30 pm.
