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:
Amazing writeup Sandeep for a equally amazing concept
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