Walter Monteiro
Mussaffah, Oct 1: Konkani community of Mussafah, here on Friday September 29 at 1 pm screened its first Konkani/Tulu bilingual movie 'Ashem Zalem Kashem'/Incha Aand Ancha'(How this has happened) at Safeer Centre. This is the first production of Glorious Angelore Productions Mangaluru which turned out to be a great movie to be watched by all Konkani and Tulu loving people of coastal Mangaluru with their family and friends.
The show began by honoring and felicitating stars who attended the screening of the 267th show of the movie namely Jennifer D’Souza, Joseph Mathias and director Maxim Pereira with flower bouquet by the members of Konkani community. Suresh Saldanha, the main coordinator of the show at Mussafah introduced the movie stars and its director to the full house audience and appraised their commitment to keep up the spirit and rich heritage of Konkani and Tulu language in Mangaluru. Joseph Mathias spoke about their solo adventure movie and thanked all the people who supported it. He also mentioned that it is our responsibility to continue and keep the language alive and teach the language to our children. Maxim Pereira gave a brief introduction of the movie and why he opted to make it bilingual. The main actress Jennifer D’Souza requested all Konkani/Tulu loving people to watch the movie and encourage and support their future ventures as well.
The movie is the maiden venture of Glorious Angelore Productions and is being directed by well-known musician, singer, composer Maxim Pereira who has also written the story for this movie. Screenplay and dialogues have been written by John M Permannur.
The main star cast of the movie includes R J Rupesh Shetty in the lead role accompanied by Jennifer D’Souza, Sinol Menezes, Rohan D'Souza, Ranjitha Lewis, Nikith Kottary, Jeevan Vas, Joseph Mathias, Judith D’Souza, Roshan Lasrado, Colin Mascarenhas, Sapna Pinto Mundrel Cyril. In addition, the famous and popular Tulu stars Aravind Bolar, Bhojaraj Vamanjoor, Umesh Mijar, Gopinath Bhat among others.
Ashem Zalem Kashem movie is a comedy show which is the union of two families focusing on the fate of Amit who at a young age is separated from his family with no fault of his and destined to enter into a family which he never deserved. The movie is filled with action, comedy and drama and full of entertainment. Hats off to all the actors who did their job very well. Good direction by Maxim Pereira with his solo attempt on Konkani/Tulu movie. He has neatly picturized and well executed the movie. The movie kept the audience entertained throughout and at times the villain and hero conflicts kept the audience under suspense. The director has taken all precautions to keep the audience humorous.
Music and sound is provided by Bittu Singh, Mumbai. The songs and melodious music is composed by Patson Pereira. The lyrics are provided by Maxim Pereira Angelore, Wilson Kateel, Joe Rego Kulshekar and John M Permannur. The songs have been sung by the melodious voice of Lavita D'Souza, Wilma Pereira, Loy Valentine and Maxim Pereira.
The Tulu part of the script and artwork is done by William Pinto. Roy Castelino, Jossy Sequeira, Manu Bantwal, Anil D'Mello and Blany D'Souza are the supporters of the movie.
This is a movie worth watching with the family including kids and adults. It is packed with story, humor, good music, entertainment and above all free from violence. The theatre was filled to capacity and many people had to go back without watching it as the theatre was over booked. The movie ended around 3.30 pm and the people disbursed with a big smile on their faces. Hats off to the team of Ashem Zalem Kashem/Incha Aand Ancha.