Sandeep Malani scales new heights

January 5, 2014
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Mangalore, Jan 5: The year 2013 has been a very musical year for writer/director Sandeep Malani, who started his production with MALANITALKIES and has made a record with 9 Musical Documentaries back to back.

The year has been 25 – 50 – 75 – 100 for Sandeep Malani and his productions.

His Hindi film with Kalpana Pandit and a whole lot of newcomers, 'Janleva 555' although did not make a big mark at the box office, but with having released in small cities in Northern India, it managed to go 25 Silver Jubilee Week.

Malani gave a surprise to his all-time favorite Sridevi on her 50th Birthday by making a musical documentary on her titled ‘Roop Ki Rani Sridevi’ which was a musical collage of all her Hindi film Journey. Happy with the video, Boney Kapoor requested Malani to make one on her  South films as well, and within a short span, Sandeep did two more Musical documentaries, ‘Senthoora Poove Sridevi’ in Tamil and ‘Athiloka Sundari Sridevi’ in Telugu.

A family musical presentation of actors and talents from the Malani family with a dedication to his dad, Ramesh Malani on his 75th Birthday titled ‘Malaniya’ was also released. It was only after the celebration of Platinum Jubilee, the Senior Malani passed away this year.

A tribute to Yash Chopra and his glorious heroines right from his first film to the last one was showcased in the musical ‘Yashraj Heroines De Jayenge’. The concept of the documentary was told to the Late filmmaker when he was alive and Malani seeked his blessings for this.

A glorious 100 years of Indian Cinema was showcased with two musical documentaries ‘Filmalani 100’ and ‘Malani’s Chitrahaar’ wherein hit songs of all languages were compiled in a 5 hour series of volumes.

A collage of Tulu, Konkani and Kannda films, film-makers, songs related to Mangalore and South Kanara was highlighted in the musical ‘Mangalore Mangalorean Mangalorent (entertainment).

Lastly, a short film on the life of a software professional was showcased in the film ‘Brigade Road’

Further to all these musical documentaries by Malani Talkies, Sandeep recently shot a music video with a whole lot of fresh and newcomers for a reputed Music Channel that will go on air this Valentine Season.

His film on HIV Aids, ‘Jo Jo Laali’ has won him all together 12 awards so far and most of them were in the same year for Best Actress, Best Film and Festival Mention at the Kolkata, Bangalore, Mumbai shorts film festivals.

Sandeep Malani also has been a part of two International Film Festival projects – Anil Dwivedi’s Devi and Arpit Goyal’s Bandagi. Both the films are social issue based theme.

In 2014 Sandeep Malani and his Malani Talkies will come with a 3 in 1 project in Hindi.

The three films include:

I Luv Hrithik – a film for young children

Oh My Dog! – a film for teenagers and youth

Hahaha Hehehe – a family comedy

There is also a Tulu-Konkani film on Mangalore in the pipeline that Malani wants to make by the end of 2014. Keeping fingers crossed for this dream venture.

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June 11,2020

Mangaluru: ‘Team B-Human’, a city based charity organisation, has donated Rs 1 lakh for the treatment of the a three-year-old child from Kinya on the outskirts of the city, who had sustained severe burn injuries.

According to the reports, a cleric at the Kodaje Badriya Juma Masjid, was living in hardship with his wife and two kids and had to recently avail loan to repair his house which was severely damaged due to storm.

To add to his woes, his three-year old son sustained 80% burn injuries after hot water fell on him accidentally. The child is currently receiving treatment at a private hospital in Derlakatte. The child’s brother is battling kidney related ailment.

A fundraising campaign was recently run on local social media platforms to help the cleric in sustaining in the hardship and to raise fund for the treatment of his son.

Taking note of the viral messages on social media, ‘Team B-Human’ came to the rescue of cleric and donated Rs 1 lakh.

‘Team B-Human’ has also arranged Rs. 70 thousand from its well-wishers which will also be deposited to cleric’s account soon. ‘Team B-Human’ in a release added that it will take care of Batish until he is discharged from the hospital post-treatment. 

Founder of ‘Team B-Human’, Asif Deals, members Basha, Althaf, Sadiq, Shameem and others were present when the cheque of Rs. one lakh was handed over to the cleric.

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Media Release
June 14,2020

Mangaluru, June 14: The management of Barakah International School and College has announced to waive off 33% of tuition fee in order to lessen the burden on parents who are undergoing financial crisis due to covid lockdown. 

This decision was taken after a series of virtual meetings with the Managing Director, Academic Director, Principal, Manager and PRO.

“While the school needs to continue to meet all the commitments and responsibilities towards the staff salaries, software, networking, etc, we fully understand that in the prevailing circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, job loss, reduction in salaries, general hardships of the self-employed businesses and the slowdown in the economy,” sated a release issued by the school.

“We would support our parent fraternity pro-actively and at the same time continue to meet the high-quality standards of our teaching- learning process and infrastructure so it has been decided that 1/3 of the tuition fee to be waived off for 2020-21,” the release said.

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May 10,2020

Puttur, May 9: City based Team B-Human today distributed Ramadan kits among 70 families in Koodu Raste Jamaat and 30 families in Papetthadka Jamaat in Puttur taluk. 

This was the second phase of Ramadan kit distributions carried out by the Team B-Human. So far the team distributed Ramadan kits among 200 families in three different Jamaat.

Koodu Raste Juma Masjid Khateeb Yaqoob Darimi offered dua before distribution.  Team B-Human members Ashraf Aina group, Althaf, Shia Deals, Ahnaf Deals, Abdul Shukoor Haji, and E-Friends founder president Imtiyaz Perla, Saleem U B of Youth Congress, Juma Masjid president P K Mohammad Shafi Papettadka were present. 

A release issued by the Team B-Human sated that it distributed food among 35,000 people since April 23. The beneficiaries include a large number of migrant workers irrespective of their caste and religion. It also arranged Iftar and Suhoor for around 450 stranded migrants every day.

Asif Deals, found of Team B-Human, said that in next phases more Ramadan kits will be distributed among needy families in some jamaats.

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