Media Release
Mangaluru, Aug 18: This week’s episode emphasises on woman empowerment with various topics and issues that the celebrities talk about.
It all begins with Ayushmann (Silver Malani) addressing his classmates in the college, talks about successfully completing the video project which he was working upon from a long time, and finally, releases it. He thanks his lecturer Sanjay Sir (Dilip Malani) and his family members Mahesh (Mahesh Dulam), Namrata (Anita Dulam), Alia (Sanjukta Ghosh) and the little ones too (Aditi and Sriman) for supporting him. The project is revealed as ‘Bandagi’, fight for a woman’s freedom, to live peacefully.
The various topic that is spoken to create awareness in the society is about to stop child marriage, dowry system, rape, molestation, eve teasing, domestic violence etc. And to encourage girl education, adoption, rights for women in the society and woman empowerment.
The artists who give the strong social message include award winning actress/dancer Sudha Chandran, actress Adaa Khan (of Nagin fame), Mangalurean actress Sonal Monteiro, Kannada actress Harshika Poonachcha and model Komal Atmaramani.
The musical video ‘Jeene Se Pehli Hi’ features Meena Malani, Sanjukta Ghosh, Shubha Raksha, Reshma Malani, Anitha Dulam, Sharanya Jit Kaur, Jagruti Mehta, Jyothi Harindranath, Varsha Acharya, Cherrie Ash, Ranjeet Jha, Mahendra Pandey, Vishal Digani, Mahesh Dulam, Akash Hora, Bharath Lakshmikanth, Anant Joshi, Mann Hora, Chirag Kundapur, Vivek Mishra, Vivek Punjabi, Kkewal Vyas, Prayas Singh, Shivam Kataria, Shane Abhishek, Priya and Drushika Padmanabhan with Sheetal Malani & Silver Malani. The song has been sung by Soma Basu and Shrikanth Nair with lyrics by Roop Kumar and music by Jayant M Aryan.
The episode also has a special segment wherein Sandeep Malani speaks about the strong women in his life who influenced him in his career. He attributes and gives full importance to his mother Meena Malani and his wife Reshma Malani, the two strong women in his life because of whom today he is a successful filmmaker and besides the reason; he is in films is because of Sridevi; who he has been a fan since he was a child and has followed her films and that influenced the strong women character she played in all her films and same way, he has portrayed the women as strong characters in his films too; be it Jo Jo Laali, SMS 6260, Sulige Sikkidaaga, Shaayad, Janleva 555 and now ‘Maa - Yeh Cinemaa Hai’. The women in his films who have played strong centric characters namely Janu Arasu, Kalpana Pandit, Shona Chabbra, Jenica Kalra and all the female characters of ‘Maa’. The message Malani gives is - Respect women in your life, be it your mother, your sister, your wife, your daughter, your neighbor, your colleague or your friend.
The finale of the video showcases the entire journey of all the characters of the series in a musical presentation. The episode will be telecast on Sunday, August 20 at 7.30 pm and repeat on Friday, August 25 at 5.30 pm.
The series is edited by Vignesh Thanupillai. It is The Studio Agency and Malani Talkies presentation. Being co produced by Santosh Chawla, Ranjeet Jha and Edward D’Souza. The story, screenplay, dialogues, camera and direction is by Sundeep Malani.