Friday, April 20, 2018

Dubbing Studios United Everyone in Yeh CineMaa Hai


Sandeep Malani’s iPhone offering ‘Maa – Yeh CineMaa Hai’ has 100 plus characters from all over playing important roles in the family entertainment series. Shot in Mangalore, Bangalore and Mumbai, the film series has characters from the film industry, TV industry, fashion, models, software engineers, friends, fans, newcomers and family members. As also to support the cast, many well wishers have come forward to even dub for the characters.

So, besides playing on screen characters there have been many off screen crew (who have dubbed for various characters) in the film series. The ones who have dubbed for other characters and themselves (they are part of this dubbing collage video) include, Vinoo Varghese, Gurudutt Srikanth, Sanidh Poojary, Vignesh Thanupillai, Nishita Saldanha, Valerian Menezes, Sudarshan Reddy, Silver Rensan Malani, Rishi, Shivranjan, Jayalakshmi, Sharanya, Chirag Kundapur, Anil Borde, Vivek Punjabi, Mahendra Pandey, Reshma Malani, Tirumalesh,
Santosh Chawla, Karthik Venkatesh, Jyoti Harindranath, Alwyn Dsouza, Reshmi Mirchandani, Priyanka Raina, Trilok Shroff, Shivam Kataria, Ghata Panchal, Aditya Vatsa, Masahiro Monoi, Abhishek Rajput, Ranjeet Jha, Mahesh Dulam, Aurobindo, Angel, Kamakshi, Bharath, Manish More, Geeta Sharma, Dhruv Soni, Aditi Dulam, Karan Sharma, Anita Dulam, Mavalli Karthik, Abram Pandey, Cherrie Ash, Punith Ranganathan.


The dubbing has been done in various studios. Chawla Studio in Bangalore, Daijiworld Studio in Mangalore, Jayant Arryan Studio in Mumbai and Neelam Films Studio in Delhi.

The dubbing engineers have been Srikanth (Mangalore), Vignesh Thanupillai (Bangalore), Ravi Yadav in Mumbai. Music for this dubbing collage has been given by Prajoth Dsa. This being the instrumental version of the title song. 
Edited by Sasi Viki and Santosh Chawla, the film is coproduced by Ranjeet Jha (RKJ Productions), Santosh Chawla (The Studio Agency), Edward Dsouza and Malani Talkies.


Script, screenplay, dialogues and direction besides handling the iphone camera is by Sundeep Malani
You can view the video here:






Sunday, April 15, 2018

Showers of Blessings for Malani’s iPhone Cine-Maa



Writer director Sandeep Malani’s latest offering, Maa – yeh Cinemaa Hai, shot entirely on an iPhone camera has many tracks of different genres. There are love songs, romantic songs, birthday songs, party songs, club song, fun song, flamenco, classical, xmas party, celebration etc. And one such track which is different from the rest is the Musical Instrumental of the church choir, ‘There Shall be showers of Blessings’. The musical track is composed by Prajoth Dsa and is used in bits and pieces in the film.

‘The track, a famous church choir since ages has been my personal favorite and I always wanted to have it used as a background score for a sequence in my film. It was while my visit to Sagar Church in Shimoga, that during my stay there for 3 days I happened to hear a wonderful composition of the same by Bro Sunil Fernandes who played it so beautifully in the church during the mass. I decided there and then that I would use the same composition and track for my film Maa, which the shoot was then under production’ recalls Malani.

I then requested Sunil Bro to compose the same feel which was heavenly. He did try to do so, and was about to record the same at a recording studio for me in the days to come in Bangalore. Due to the timings and schedules it got postponed for a while, but he did promise me that when he gets time, he would do.

Unfortunately, the fate desired something else. Brother Sunil Fernandes committed suicide and that was a tragic incident that happened.
The mystery behind his death remained unsolved…..

To his memory and tribute, I then requested Prajoth Dsa, the singer composer who already had done the title track for Maa – to recreate ‘Showers Of Blessings’ for me in a different musical mood and to be very high on instrumental that goes with the mood of the film. And Prajoth Dsa came out with a wonderful composition. This beautiful piece of music is a tribute to Late Bro. Sunil Fernandes.

The track that also begins with the opening of the film, that Mohammed Aashiq interviews me in Daijiworld Studio and asks for the narration of the film, this piece begins and as the journey goes on, all the footage montages of the film is showcased for this instrumental music.





The track features All Artists including Ranjeet JhaSanjukta GhoshBharath LakshmikanthDeepali KhambadkoneKaran SharmaAditya VatsaJyoti HarindranathMeena MalaniReshma Malani, Violet Tauro,  Tressila Dsouza,  Sharon David, Madhura Ammu,  Anita Dulam, Silver Rensan MalaniAnant Vijay Joshi,  Aditi Dulam,  Salome Pinto,  Sharanya Kaur,  Chanda Baburaj, Mahendra PandeySonal MonteiroDabang DiganiVivek S Punjabi,  Lavina,  Sowmya Murthy,  Vinny Fernandes,Shubha Raksha,  Sarojini Shetty, Akash Hora,  Kshama, Jagruti Mehta,  Sriman Dulam,  Sheetal Malani, Canyut FernandesAdaa Khan,  Roseline Sequeira, Sudha Chandran, Kamakshi, Reshmi Mirchandani,  Geeta Suvarna, Harshika PoonachaMahesh DulamSuboo SinghNigelgodfrey PereiraVelmurugan Velu,  Komal Atmaramani, Vivek Mishra, Marina Roopa,  Christopher Vijayanand, Valerian MenezesVaibhav PhkThirumalesh G K, Saiheel Rai, Jamuna Amma, Chirag D KundapurKarthik Venkatesh, Cherrie Ash, Masahiro Monoi,  Aurobindo Kiriyakere, Ashwin SarafAshwin DcostaManish MoreChittranjini ChitraManjula S PillaiMd HashimTrilokk Shroff, Babli Shome Dutta and Prince Malani.
Edited by Vignesh Thanupillai and coproduced by Ranjeet Jha, Santosh Chawla, Edward Dsouza for RKJ Productions, The Studio Agency and Malani Talkies, it has script, screenplay, dialogues, iPhone camera and direction by Sundeep Malani.

The musical track can be viewed here: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H3spcwxeUs&t=1s