Malani Talkies' SRIDEVI LIVES FOREVER gets a Thumbs up response!

Legendary actress Sridevi was felicitated posthumously at the 71st Cannes Film Festival in France. She was honored with the prestigious Titan Reginald F Lewis Award at the special event to be presided at Le Majestic Beachside on May 16. And the proudest and the highest honorable moment was filmmaker Sandeep Malani’s is musical documentary was showed as a tribute to her, before she was honored

SRIDEVI LIVES FOREVER (Duration 05 mins 55 seconds) is a voice over on her pics from childhood to her career - from South to Hindi films, from Childhood to MOMhood - some little trivia about her career. It continues with a mashup collage of a few video songs (the famous ones of Sridevi).

Edited by Santosh Chawla and Vignesh Thanupillai for The Studio Agency, its conceptualized, presented and directed by Sundeep Malani for Malani Talkies production.

The video that was premiered on Malani Talkies YouTube channel has been received with a positive response from all over. Here are the feedbacks and comments from Sridevi fans, filmmakers, and well wishers across the globe.

“Within 5 min time frame you did a good job; Gr8; Awesome man… you rock”
- Mahesh Dulam.

“Being a tribute it’s good bro”
 - Vinoo Varghese

“sundeep ji , very well made tribute videos...we are yet to upgrade to your cannes level bro....you have excelled in your heartfelt efforts....kudos congrats...enjoy your success
- Pramodan navenah

“Really nice one sir...specially your voice and all hit songs of Sri ji”

-Mahendra Pandey

“Good one”
- Valerian Menezes

“Fantastic presentation!! Congratulations !!”
- Kalpana Pandit

“Seriously u took her best.... Hatts off.
Ur voice is too good

I could feel it was from bottom of ur heart..malani sir
- Ragesh Nambiar

“Your voice was nice to hear”
- Aamir Mohammed

“Very Very nice, really shridevi great...हो सके तो लौट के आना।“
- Rita Jain

“was almost in tears..Thanks bhai for sharing it
Nice combination of her Hindi and Tamil songs.. and also 1 Telugu song
The voice over was clear and very touchy”
- Rajan Naidu

“Awsome,,,,speechless …Superb….fabulous”
- Shilpi Chaudhary

’Watched....excellent video...tears.. No words”
- Anita

“Sundeep. ...superb work....had tears in eye's everytime u said...Sri was. ...Sri was....throughout goosebumps while watching the video...love u man....wow....”
- Sudarshan Reddy

“No words.. Speechless, I luvd the documentary”

-Teena Sharma

“Great effort Sandeep.. Your voice truly reflects the devotion you have for Sri”
- Sathish Padakanayya

“Great job”
- Mohd Syed

“Awesome Sandeep sir,
Already watched twice ..Superb”
- Pooja Berde

“Great tribute Sundeep Sir!!
To fit everything into a 6 minute video would have been indeed very difficult!
Touching”
- Anish Soman


’”Respectful and illustrious. You walked us through Sridevi's 50 year old career with some of her best songs and pictures. The narration was very good too, for those audience members who weren't aware of our main woman as a person/actress.
Above all, I love the way you ended it. It wasn't a sad ending, which was what I expected. The ending was energetic with the song choice and the cut to black with the song continuing, symbolic of Sridevi's legacy living on forever”

-Anantha Krishna

“Awesome... Speechless... Too good... Really couldn't stop my tears... U have really done it so well..captured her carrier ... Spectacular...thanks for sharing”
- Amit Palsule

“THE BEST... really awesome..hats off to ur work and dedication.”
- Vaibhavi

“aap ke dil se nikali 5 minutes ki documentary on sri, sabhi k dil tak pahunchi. Thanx Sundeep ji.
first of all I want to say I loved yr documentary but I wished u had used her cute and sweet voice. I mean to say some dialogues of sri must hv been a part of yr documentary. As the documentary was meant for international audience and I think they are not exposed to songs and dances in comparison to indian audiences. Bt it's from yr heart and it reached to our hearts”
- Sharad Chandra

“Sundeep, loved ur tribute dear and ur voice over was sooo... good. Thank you once again and Sandy, God bless u with all the happiness in the world.”
- Deepti Pinnitti

“Excellent sampling, considering the time constraint. With so many superb superb movies, any sampling will leave a fan of Sri wanting for more”
- Veerabhadra Rao Dontamsetti

“You Deserve salute”
- Jawahar Gupta

“Excellent..Loved it”
- Reshma lobo

You can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB68FecNhmU

MAMTA: Desire of a Transgender to attain motherhood!

Award winning film maker Sandeep Malani has made lots of films on social issues and has won awards and applauds at various film festivals in Indian and International platform. While his films are based on HIV Aids, Woman empowerment and Child trafficking, he has also made films on the LGBT community and has got rave response for his bold but beautiful subjects.

And not only his short films are focused on such themes, but his commercial feature films too have a character from the community portraying either a gay or a transgender with positivism and been part of the entertainment section. Neither has any character been degraded or shown in poor light.

While SMS 6260 had a transgender providing relief at the call center, she was everyone's favorite Julie Darling; In Janleva 555, there was a make up gay man who was also a darling to the crew on film and on sets.  Shaayad was about a gay man and a model girl living together as best friends and she finds his importance in his life to be caring and helpful than her actual lover. This was a sensitive film that got awards and applauds at various film festivals.

Getting back to the latest, MAMTA (Maternal Love) is a chapter from the film Maa – Yeh CineMaa Hai, is now a full fledged short film in itself. The film talks about the desire of a Trans woman who is a dancer and wants to give education and a name in the society for her three daughters, who she has adopted. She tells her problems she faced during her childhood and does not wish that her daughters face the same. She needs equal rights to them who were orphan, but she took the responsibility to take care of their livelihood.

Sharanya (playing Deepika) is  a dancer who gets trained from Kshama (Sudhaji, a classical well known dancer). Ranveer (Mahendra Pandey) is Deepika’s fiancée and his friend Varun (Ranjeet Jha) visit the dance class, wherein Sudhaji tells her desire and also bless everyone with good health and prosperity.

This sentimental scene is a short film sequence been scripted, conceptualized and directed by Sandeep Malani, besides handling the camera (using iPhone 6s).  The music has been composed by Punith M Ranganathan. Edited by Vignesh Thanupillai for The Studio Agency, it has background score also by Prajoth Dsa. 

The film opens with a small introduction to the character of a Transgender in Hindi films, and the film ends with the character at the dubbing studio sharing her experience of working in the film.

Kshama has worked earlier for a Hindi film titled Beyond – The Third Kind, directed by Shiraz Henry who recommended Kshama for Mamta. Malani and Shiraz are good friends and have worked together in various projects, directed by Henry wherein Malani has acted. 

The film can be viewed here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBPBMXlsFSk&t=110s