Tulu movie 'Dhand' creates history with houseful show in Israel

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July 3, 2016

Tel Aviv, Jul 3: Sandhya Creations second venture 'Dhand' Tulu film after overwhelming responses in Mangaluru, Mumbai, Nasik, Australia, U.K., Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Qatar released in Israel on July 1 creating a record houseful show with 'first ever South Indian movie to get proper theatre release in the Jewish nation.

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It was a festive mood for all Mangalureans in Israel who from morning were communicating with each other holding their advance booking tickets in hand and rushing to the Theatre much before time of the film show. Tickets were sold out and there were many volunteers who though could not get the tickets/seats have managed to sit on the floor and watched DHAND patiently.

Lenard Fernandes who worked hard with to arrange this special show, arranged a proper official opening inauguration at around 6.45 PM with specially invited Israeli's chief guests. Vincent Lobo & Roshan D'Souza invited Galia Bador - Festival Director of DOCAVIV who said 'It was great. Well organized and the film was very good. I wish I could stay till the end. I see you are very talented.' he added. Along with him he invited Alon Garbor - Ex head of Cinematheque Telaviv who commented 'Dear Lenard thank you for the nice evening and the honor you gave us. It was a pleasure' and also invited Smadar Eliasaf - a well known Paint Artiste who is also a trained Yoga practitioner who said 'It was great event... So happy to take part.' Lenard introduced the Chief Guests to the audience who welcomed them with loud applause as they were honoured with flower bouquets. It was a different inauguration ceremony with Chief Guests opening up the DCP and Ticket Copy of DHAND from the beautifully wrapped box and wishing the audience for the special show. Soon as Lenard announced the opening of the record created houseful show, the audience cheered with applause and whistles as the screen opened up brilliantly.

It was for the first time the DCP of DHAND got placed and blessed at the holy site of the birth place of Jesus and one of the rare opportunity anybody might have got for this kind of event so far. This created a miracle and with this got opened a whatsapp group of Mangaloreans in Israel with hundreds adding up daily on it and communicating with each other as to how the show should go and so on. This united many Mangaloreans there with the sole aim of supporting DHAND being the much heard about Tulu Movie and resulted in houseful show. It was really nice to see the reaction of the public with whistles and applauds whenever they saw their most loved Deepak Paladka appeared in comic scenes on screen and also welcomed with applaud when the Shodhan Prasad appeared surprisingly on screen.

After watching the whole movie the public positively responded with their reviews that Sandhya Creations presented a really great movie with a good message and appreciated Director Ranjith Bajpe's story and direction saying this is one of the best movie they have ever watched in Tulu. DHAND Tulu Movie is being carefully, beautifully and digitally created without compromising on the quality, line and length with a mass social message to women folk. Stars Arjun Kapikad, Sandeep Shetty, Anoop Sagar along with Deepak Paladka, Shilpa Suvarna, Nidhi Maroli, Anvitha Sagar supported by Gopinath Bhat who received the best supporting actor award recently, Umesh Mijar, Ranjan Boloor, Sudhakar Kudroli and Producer Shodhan Prasad, were all appreciated for their acting. Moreover the soulful background Music and Songs composed by Music Director Abhishek S.N. with Lyrics by Loku Kudla, Rajneesh Amin & U.Y. Ravichandran Sonandoor were immensely liked by the audience specially the romantic song sung by Sonu Nigam. DHAND is being carefully and crispy edited by State Award Winner, Sujit Naik.

It was hard for all those Tulu film lovers who assembled at this event to get departed later as the DHAND show got concluded; awaiting for when yet another opportunity would arise as Lenard thanked all of them for creating a record in Israel with this show while promising more shows in the future, which brought back the smile on their face again while returning.

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Juana Dsouza
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Sunday, 3 Jul 2016

Congratulations Sir Shodhan Prasad and entire Dhand team...Super Film.Unique.
Good awarness Message to today's women .
Fantastic action.loved the fights of hero.
Villain acting superb
Music awesome
I want to see it more times
All the very best Dhand Team!

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