Christmas Special – Malani’s Yeh CineMaa Hai with Dance, Wine & Dine.

It’s Christmas. A feast of celebrating happiness, togetherness, excitement and enjoyment. A feast of family getting together and talking about it in Mangalore, it’s festivities around the city. Christmas Trees, Stars, Decorations, Crib, Church Bells, Santa Claus, Night Mass, Carols, Cake, Kuswars, Wine, Dine, Dance – all put in together, celebrating the Birth of Jesus Christ. And all this as a package is showcased with a song/dance number by Malani for his latest offering, Yeh CineMaa Hai.

Ring Ring Ringa, Jingle Bella

The musical track Ring Ring Ringa is about a Christmas Dance Party. The song is composed by Dr Nitin Acharya, Mangalorean singer composer. Nitin starts it with the Alleluia track and then with church bells and the Xmas feel the track moves to  Western, Indian feel as the music track has the essence of waltz, jive, lively birdie dance and a soft romantic tune to it.
Nitin himself sings the lines: Ring Ring Ring – Ringa!
Nitin had earlier composed music for Malani's award winning film 'Sulige Sikkidaaga' in which the Tulu song Daane Ponney was remixed and picturised on Kalpana Pandit and Vivek Punjabi.

The Concept

Ayushmann along with his sister Alia, sister in law Namrata and niece Preeti sit back and watch the YouTube video of the Christmas Party that they were part of a few days ago.

The Christmas party was arranged by Sonali for her family and friends. The video starts with the church bell, the mass atmosphere (St  Vincent Pallotti Church) and wishing and greeting the friends followed by the Party at the Terrace wherein the kids dance to the Birdie number, followed by jive by a couple and waltz by the rest of the couple. In between the dance number we also see Namrata and Jaya Maa talking about family matters, and Sonali joins too (all the happy moments is captured on photos by Ayushmann, who is a passionate photographer).

The Cast and Crew

The Video features Meena Malani, Reshma Malani, Silver Malani, Sanjukta Ghosh, Mahesh Dulam, Anita Dulam, Aditi Dulam, Sriman Dulam, Sheetal Malani, Sharon David, Velu Murugan, Isabelle, Marina Roopa, Christopher Vijayanand, Roseline Sequeira, Joseph Rajan, Santosh Chawla, Kashish Chawla, Asha Fernandes, Prakash and Anand.

Music by Nitin Acharya, edited by Santosh Chawla and Vignesh Thanupillai, Co-produced by Ranjeet Jha (RKJ Production), Malani Talkies, The Studio Agency and Edward Dsouza, it has script, concept, iPhone and direction by Sundeep Malani

Sundeep Malani with the entire team of Yeh Cinemaa Hai and Malani Talkies, wishes everyone – Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays ahead with a bright and wonderful start to the New Year 2018.

 The video can be viewed here:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Z-4qP8CQY

Karthik Venkatesh’s Jeele Jeele finds space in Malani’s CineMaa

Director Sandeep Malani is a true Mangalorean and his love for his mother land has always been showcased in his films. He has mostly shot his films in the coastal region. And that continues with his latest, Yeh Cinemaa Hai, in which some virgin locales have been shown in the romantic song, Jeele Jeele featuring Ranjeet Jha, Shubha Raksha, Sharanya and Mahendra Pandey. The music is scored by Karthik Venkatesh.

The Concept of Jeele Jeele

The two love bird couple Varun – Sonam and Ranveer- Deepika plan for a day out. They decide to go shopping, disco, dining, and beach, eat ice cream etc. But in a filmy way hence change costumes at every location they drop in. So with their bikes and car, they move around the city singing and dancing to the song ‘Jeele Jeele, Masti Main Jeele’ – live life happily.

The Locations

The song has been shot in beautiful locales of Mangalore. The song starts with visit to Kulshekar Church and then to Pabbas Ice Cream Parlor, later it moves to Tree Park Resort at Tanneer Baavi, followed by the roads of Mangalore to Ullal Bridge and then to Crave Cake Shop, to a discotheque and to Summer Sand Beach.

Cast and Crew

The song features Ranjeet Jha (Varun), Shubha Rakhsa (Sonam), Sharanya Kaur (Deepika) and Mahendra Pandey (Ranveer). Along with the foursome, the others who also perform in the song is the Mangalore Model Chirag Kundapur seen playing a guitar at Crave, Cherrie Ash and Ajit Shetty as dance partners at the disco along with Umesh KT, Jaison Dais, Jaison Melroy and Avinash Poojary as the choreographer.

Edited by Vignesh Thanupillai and Santosh Chawla (The Studio Agency),  the song sung by Govind Kurnool and Priya Yadav has music and lyrics by Karthik Venkatesh. Co Produced by Santosh, Ranjeet and Edward Dsouza, for RKJ Production and The Studio Agency;  the concept, iphone camera and direction is handled by Sundeep Malani for Malani Talkies production.

The Song can be viewed here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKirdUXzT1U

Its ‘Jim Reeves’ romantic track for Malani’s Cine-Maa!

Romance is just not the flavor for Valentine’s but it’s for all seasons in Malani’s films. Romance and love tracks has always been the USP for Sandeep Malani’s films. And it has to be noted that he gets a pure classic English track in his films. Be it SMS 6260 wherein two English tracks were composed for the film, and so be it Miss California, in which a Waltz number was used. Also for the Kannada film, Julie; the famous My Heart is Beating was repeated with his own style of beats recomposed. Ditto for his Hindi film Janleva 555, there was a total romantic Birthday track with waltz, jive, rock and salsa picturised on the entire starcast. And now, coming to Yeh CineMaa Hai, Sandeep Malani has got the famous Jim Reeve’s track ‘Welcome to my world’ the cover version sung and composed by Carl Correa.

Welcome to my world

The track by Jim Reeves, has been sung and music (re arranged) by Mangalorean Carl Correa, who has his base both in Mangalore and in Dubai as he keeps flying up and down every week managing his crave for baking. He runs a cake shop with the name ‘Crave’ in Mangalore. And his crave also has been for music, and one of his many tracks that he composed is ‘Welcome to my world’ which has been used in Malani’s Yeh Cinemaa Hai for the scene that has the song in the background which is based on romance and bonding of the artists.

The Bonding of the Characters

The sequence begins with Sonam and Varun being cozy at home talking about love and life while the bell rings and Varun opens the door for a surprise guest waiting on the other side. Deepika and Ranveer enter the home, as Sonam hugs Deepika and introduces as her would be sister in law. 

While Varun and Deepika greet; Sonam and Ranveer are happy too. Deepika being a modern girl of today’s generation still has high regards on family values. She respects and honors her fiance’ Ranveer’s departed mother’s portrait. And as they all settle down – thank each other for the little for being helpful, supportive and cooperation that through a small misunderstanding because of Shahid; who Varun had assumed that was having an affair with his sweetheart Sonam, was actually a gay. So, there ends the confusion and the foursome are happy being together once again. While the entire sequence is going on, the track is being played in the background – thus giving the scene a beautiful meaning.

The Cast and The Crew

The scene features Shubha Raksha as Sonam, Ranjeet Jha as Varun, Sharanya Jit Kaur as Deepika and Mahendra Pandey as Ranveer. It’s Mann Hora who is been referred to

as the gay, Shahid through his pictures. Cherrie Ash, has been sweet enough to lend her voice for Shubha Raksha. And the sequence has been shot in the beautiful house with wonderful interiors at Juliet Savio Aranha’s Kadri Hill residence in Mangalore. The portrait of the mother in the scene is that of Ranjeet Jha’s deceased mother.

Edited by Vignesh Thanupillai for Santosh Chawla and The Studio Agency, it is been co-produced by Ranjeet Jha, Edward Dsouza, Chawla Studios. Concept, iphone camera and direction by Sundeep Malani for Malani Talkies production.

The song can be viewed at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVK-MEgpI2M&t=10s

Reshma does a Sridevi act in Malani’s iPhone Cinemaa!

It is already well known to everyone since ages now, that Sandeep Malani, is an die hard Sridevi fan and this is since his childhood. He has lived his dream of meeting the diva not once or twice but umpteen times and this he always thanks to Boney Kapoor for this gesture.  Malani runs a Sridevi fan page and writes articles, post pictures, videos and details about her filmography as Sridevi Film Festival in social media which has a lot of followers. That is Malani as a true die hard Sridevi fan!

Now, as a filmmaker, Sandeep Malani has always from the very beginning in his films, brought a Sridevi connection, as he says, Sridevi touch to one or the other scene in his films, or may be use her reference or her poster in a sequence. Like his film, ‘SMS 6260’ he had his heroine Janu giggle like Sridevi does in Sadma; his heroine Sowmya dress up in Half sarees with flowers  in ‘Miss California’, and she says she likes to be referred such a way like Sridevi does; his heroine Kalpana Pandit do a Tandav with that costume similar to Sridevi’s Chandni in Jo Jo Laali and a entire film dedicated to Sridevi songs, costumes and Nagina flavor in ‘Janleva 555’.

And now, Malani has made his wife Reshma act in his latest film, Yeh Cinemaa Hai, entirely shot on an iPhone camera. In the film, Sandeep has shot a romantic song on Reshma titled “Heeriye” and in the song Reshma is made to give some facial expressions that usually Sridevi does in her films. As also, some shots and sequences reminds of Sridevi from Chandni.

The Song Sequence

The song is titled ‘Heeriye’ and it is about the character Salman (played by Vishal Digani) who expresses his love for his beloved, Sonali (Reshma Malani) and dedicates this song that he sings as a playback singer/live singer at a concert.  The sequence begins with Sonali’s aunt Jaya (Meena Malani) and mom (Deepali Khambadkone) asking their son in law Salman, how is Sonali doing and he replies, Sonali is doing fine and will always be in his heart.  And in the song, she is shown to be very simple, love for nature, love for kids, animals, always smiling with positive attitude being happy.

The Sridevi look!

Says the Sridevi fan;  When I had six heroines in my film-series ‘Yeh Cinemaa Hai’ this time and that too, when my wife was playing one of the lead; I had thought of picturising a song on her, that I always feel should be something like a Sridevi from Chandni, the freshness and her mannerisms.  So when the song was ready, I visualized a few shots in mind and just told Reshma, do this way, walk this way, smile this way and she did it on her own! Although she is very shy, it was surprising for me, that she faced the camera for the first time and she overshined in the song! So in some places, she was just like herself and some places she gave me the Sridevi look!

Cast and Crew

The song is sung by Ishan with music composed by him, featuring Reshma Malani, Vishal Digani and a lot of children from the NGO titled Reaching Hand. Some portions of the song shot at Leh and Ladakh and a few in Bangalore and Delhi, it has edit by Vignesh Thanupillai and is coproduced by Ranjeet Jha, Santosh Chawla, Edward Dsouza and Sundeep Malani for RKJ Productions, The Studio Agency and Malani Talkies. Concept, screenplay, iPhone camera and direction by Sundeep Malani.

The song can be viewed at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H57Sp4RsKAA