Media Release
Mangaluru, May 2: Award winning Mangalurean filmmaker Sandeep Malani has created not just one record but several records with his latest venture ‘Maa – yeh cinemaa hai’. This Hinglish film of 3 hours 45 minutes duration has been entirely shot on an iPhone camera. This film is scheduled to be telecast as a weekly series on Daijiworld 24x7 featuring more than 100 actors in it. Malani had initially planned to title it as ‘Filmalani 100’.
Says Sandeep Malani, "I have grown up watching films since my childhood as my family atmosphere was always filmy. While my maternal side was into theatre, music and dance, my father was a film distributor and a theatre manager for several years. Also, through my growing up years we owned a music shop of record players, audio cassettes, video cassettes, 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 four years ago, I had given a special tribute with an event in Mangaluru and in Sydney with my production house Malani Talkies. That is when I decided to make a film with newcomers giving a tribute to cinema and titled it ‘Filmalani 100’. Although the plan commenced, due to some circumstances, it did not take off. 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 industry, television industry of Bollywood and South Indian films, besides newcomers, models, dancers, theatre artistes and common man who are working professionals and housewives, not connected to the entertainment industry. A whole lot of talents from the city are also in the series with those from Tulu, Kannada and Konkani film industry.
The entire cast in the film from the first scene to the last scene 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 K T, 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 G K, Sarojini Shetty, Chittranjani, Janu Arasu, Shridevi B U, 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 parishioners of Milagres Church, Lions Club members and Ladies Social Service League members.
Maa – yeh Cinemaa Hai is a film on a mother's sentiment. It also has a special segment on woman empowerment for which several celebrities and models have been actively given a video message which will be featured in the series. These 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, team support by Vignesh Thanupillai, Srinivas Srikanth, Ravi Yadav, music composed by Karthik Venkatesh, Nitin Acharya, Punit Ranganath, Prajoth Dsa, Ameya Nayak and Ishaan Arora, production by Ranjeet Jha and co-produced by Edward Dsouza, Santosh Chawla and Sandeep Malani, the few technicians above are also co-owners of the project which has been made under the banner Malani Talkies, RKJ Productions, The Studio Agency and Punit Studios. News Karnataka, Baalkani Live and Daijiworld are the media partners. The film series has been by conceptualized with screenplay, dialogues, camera and direction by Sundeep
Malani.
Daijiworld 24x7 telecasts ‘Maa – Yeh Cinemaa Hai’ from May 14 every Sunday at 7.30 pm.
Mangaluru: Maa – Yeh Cinemaa Hai weekly series to be telecast on Daijiworld 24x7 from May 14.