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Dubai, Aug 5: The screening of Sandhya Creations’ second super hit venture ‘Dhand’ witnessed a houseful show on August 3 at Galleria Cinemas, Hyatt Regency, Deira-Dubai. The show was arranged due to public demand of the film here. Another show in Abu Dhabi and another one in USA are awaiting finalisation.

Tulu film lovers flocked into the theatre much in advance. This was one of the very first instances where a Tulu film received such a huge response. Many non-Tuluvas also happily watched the film as they could watch it with English sub-titles comfortably.

Producer, Shodhan Prasad welcomed the audience and thanked them for being part of the show in support of Tulu language. He then invited Fr Franklin D’Souza, national youth director of ICYM, India, and welcomed him. He also welcomed Praveen Shetty, president of KNRI Forum Dubai and owner of Fortune Group of Hotels, veteran Mangalurean entrepreneur, film producer and philanthropist Frank Fernandes, owner of Mosaco Shipping Company, entrepreneur, singer, actor and philanthropist Joseph Mathias of Merit Freight Shipping, entrepreneur Gunsheel Shetty of Ace Cranes, Anil Kapadia stalwart in insurance industry Dubai and actor Deepak Paladka of Tulu, Kannada and Konkani films who were all greeted by Shravya Prasad and Nindiya Prasad. Sandhya Prasad of ‘Sandhya Creations’ was also the main person behind the special show. Lyricst of ‘Dhand’, Rajneesh Amin along with is family was also part of the show in Galleria.

Fr Franklin rendered prayer before the start of the show and thanked the producer for his love and friendship. He expressed his happiness to be part of the move as a viewer and said that movie field is yet another media to communicate a social message through entertainment. “It is a great job to speak the truth to resist the crime and contribute to the society which should be built on justice and peace,” he said appreciating the subject of the movie.

‘Dhand’ has gained appreciation wherever released in India and abroad with its quality comparison to the standards of Hindi movie and mass entertainment. It also has the credit of being the first Tulu movie to be released in Australia with successful two shows in Melbourne and Perth. It has also recorded shows in London, Canada, Israel, Muscat and other countries successfully. ‘Dhand’ other than Mangaluru, was also screened successfully in various parts of Mumbai, Nasik, Dhanu and other parts with houseful shows. There were also requests from Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, USA, Baroda, Delhi, Pune, Chennai and Bengaluru for special shows which were not held due to logistical reasons. ‘Dhand’ is one such Tulu movie which otherwise has been screened in maximum theatres across the world.

The film has been carefully, beautifully and digitally created without compromising on quality, line and length with a mass social message to women folk on drug awareness. The movie created awareness waves and received appreciations wherever released.

With story, script and directed by ‘Nirel’ fame Ranjith Bajpe, it has soulful background music and songs composed by music director Abhishek S N with lyrics by Loku Kudla, Rajneesh Amin and U Y Ravichandran Sonandoor. Well known playback singer from Hindi film industry Sonu Nigam and Anoop Shanker lent their voice for some beautiful songs other than voices of Abhishek, Pushpanjali Suchi and Akanksha Badami. Edited by Sujith Nayak and cinematography by Karthik Mallur, it has stunts by Ultimate Shivu.

The film stars Arjun Kapikad, Sandeep Shetty, Anoop Sagar along with Deepak Paladka, Shilpa Suvarna, Nidhi Maroli and Anvitha Sagar in the lead roles, supported by Gopinath Bhat, Pradeepchandra, Umesh Mijar, Ranjan Boloor and Sudhakar Kudroli who is also the executive producer.

Soon after the show was over, the audience expressed their happiness to have watched a very good standard Tulu movie with a social message which they had missed to watch last time when it had released three years ago. Some of them watched it for the second time and said it is worth watching again and again.