Report: Shodhan Prasad
Dubai, Jun 22: Sangati Creations’ maiden venture, Konkani film ‘Zanvoy No.1’ written and directed by well-known Bollywood director Harry Fernandes Barkur is all set for release in the Gulf during the first week of September 2018. The super-hit film released in April earlier this year in Mangaluru, Goa and Mumbai, did roaring business.
A differently made super combination package of thrill, action, comedy, romance and high voltage drama ‘Zanvoy No.1’ has created a new landmark in the Konkani film industry. It was released in 13 theatres simultaneously and has already completed more than 250 shows. It is noticed that the younger generation liked the movie.
Almost all the Konkani film directors have watched and appreciated the movie. More shows are planned in Pune, Bengaluru, Israel, Canada and London in the coming months.
‘Zanvoy No.1’ has the well known actress from Bollywood Varsha Usgaonkar who carries the entire film with her charming and stunning acting skills in a challenging role. This is her maiden Konkani movie and she is very happy to be part of the prestigious project. This project is beautifully designed and presented by Mumbai's well-known theatre and social activists Cyril Castelino, Leo Fernandes and Walter D’Souza of Sangati Creations who have come out with this venture in an attempt to take Konkani language to greater heights. Enabling overseas Konkani movie lovers to understand the language, they have come forward to add English subtitles, so that the current generation of the community will find it easy to grasp the movie and enjoy the content.
The star cast includes male lead Kevin D’Mello who has worked in various Goan movies with female lead, an international model Josita Anola Rodrigues who is ‘Miss South Asia Teen’ and finalist of ‘World Teen Super Model of South Asia’, supported by ‘Comedy King of Goa’ Prince Jacob, Stany Alvares, Rons London, Sujatha Andrade, Ranjitha Lewis, Lyshon Fernandes, Cyril Castelino and well-known star actor of Dubai, Deepak Paladka who has to his credit acted in six movies in three different languages of Karnataka namely Tulu, Konkani and Kannada.
Camera man Shafeeque Shaik has captured the entire movie beautifully which is crisply edited by Abhishek Mhaskar. Action of the movie is being finely handled by Bollywood fame Sunil Rodrigues. Scintillating music is composed by the trio Eric Ozario, Jerry Bondel and Gunwant Sen. Lyrics of the songs were penned by Jerry Bondel, Llyod Rego and Harry Fernandes. Music arrangement is beautifully done by Patson Pereira. Choreographer Naveen Shetty of Aryan's has brilliantly done his job while the whole production team was carefully handled by production controller Karel Prem D'Souza, William Padhrengi and Rajesh Kudla. The film is exclusively marketed by Tony Martins, Deepak Paladka and team.
The overseas audio release of the film was held in Dubai on March 1 earlier this year at Winny’s Restaurant auditorium, Karama, Dubai which was attended by well-known and famous dignitaries of Dubai and well supported by the Konkani lovers. Bishop of Mangaluru Dr Aloysiud Paul D’Souza and ministers of Goa have attended the release events, watched and appreciated the movie.
‘Zanvoy No.1’ created a new landmark in movie making in Konkani language as well as Coastalwood with close comparison to Bollywood movies. Sangati Creations are expecting non-Konkani community members to come forward and watch Konkani movies as they plan their next venture in Tulu/Kannada soon.
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Overseas release is being arranged by ‘Sandhya Creations Overseas Movies’ and one can contact Shodhan Prasad on +971 52 5569786 for more information.