Song on Sridevi by Sandeep Malani
- IndiaGlitz, [Saturday,May 19 2018]
The legendary Indian actress Sridevi was given tribute at the 71st Cannes Film Festival. Sridevi ardent fan Sandeep Malani actor and director of Kannada films very happy for this achievement given posthumously to Sridevi has written a song of 5 minutes and 55 seconds duration for documentary that is titled as ‘Sridevi Lives forever’.
The song showcases Sridevi’s career through few pictures and video songs mash up and a voice over by him to celebrate her wonderful career of 50 years and 300 films from childhood to Hindi films.
This presentation will be shown to the audience comprising of filmmaker’s and celebrities from across the world; before the honor is been given to her; to be accepted by Sonam Kapoor, who is at Cannes with her husband to also promote her forthcoming film, Veere Di Wedding.
Malani who has earlier made a musical documentary 4 years ago on Sridevi’s 50th Birthday titled Roop Ki Rani Sridevi – was a lengthy 3 hours one, which he gifted to her and then on request of Boney Kapoor, he did a Tamil one titled Senthoora Poove and a Telugu one titled Athiloka Sundari, these had mash up songs of her entire career in respective languages.
Last year, during the release of her 300th film, MOM, Malani had made yet another short musical for Zee Television for their online promotions and that too was showcased on all digital platforms and just a month back on the first month remembrance to Sri, it was shown in bits and pieces on Zee Cinema celebrating her films.
Sandeep Malani who has had a yearlong ongoing Sridevi Film Festival also has a face book page and a whats app group titled ‘Sridevi Lives Forever’ and has active team members from all over the globe. Many of them die hard Sridevi fans including Deepti Pinnitti, Deepa Bhatia, Teena Sharma, Sathish, Aamir, Sudarshan Reddy, Ramandeep, Bharath Kamath, Andy Mamta, Anantha Krishna, Anish Kurup, Gaurav, Pooja Berde, Anita, Sumit Daga, Rajan Naidu and many others. Malani does a Sridevi Quiz every week titled Sridevi Baaz, and selects a winner. Most of Sridevi related articles, films, posters, scenes, songs and trivia is been discussed in the group which is active round the clock.