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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