Sridhar Rangayan’s Projects

Apart from those by Solaris Pictures / Magus Creative Unit


Films

CHAKKAD BAKKAD BAMBE BO

110 minutes, 35mm, Hindi, 2004

Produced by : Children Film Society of India

Directed by : Sridhar Rangayan

Screenplay & Dialogues : Vijay Tendulkar

Story : Shakuntala Paranjpye

Award : BRONZE REMI AWARD at WorldFest 2004, Houston, USA

A fun-filled adventure set in a picturesque Konkan village uncorrupted by modern metropolitan hustle-bustle. Four kids, a dog and a monkey while having their own idyllic holiday are caught up in the intricacies of a smuggling mafia don. Two of the kids are kidnapped and the other four have to now search for them and set them free. The kids parents, the police, the fisherman are all drawn into this adventure unwittingly.

Cast : Tom Alter, Ravindra Mankani, Mona Ambegaonkar & the Chakkad

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Telefilms

GOL MAAL GHAR

Sahara One, 120 min, Hindi, ‘Cinema Ghar’

Produced by : BAG Films

Directed by : Sridhar Rangayan

Written by : Sridhar Rangayan & Saagar Gupta

A zany comedy about a ‘family of errors’ where the mother is a madam of a brothel, father is a penniless drunkard and the sister is a wayward pickpocket – this is the family Samar puts together for his beloved wife Suman. Hilarious escapades as each try to hide the truth and lead a ‘normal life’. But what happens when the truth is exposed? Will the family come apart?

Cast : Manav Gohil, Gauri Pradhan, Shagufta Ali, Lovleen Mishra, Aashish Roy

MADHUR MILAN

ETV Hindi, 120 min, Hindi

Produced by : Indian Production House

Directed by : Sridhar Rangayan

Written by : Ranjit Kapoor

A famous writer of thriller novels hates romance while his diabolically opposite aunt is a famous romantic novelist. When his aunt bequeaths him her house and he starts writing his thriller, somehow the entire story changes… a girl comes into his life and he falls in love. Fiction merges with real life to create a bizarre series of events that is comical as well as chilling… There is a philosophy behind it as well.

Cast : Ayub Khan, Juhi Parmar, Benjamin Gilani, Vijju Khote, Uttara Bhavkar, Jaydutt Vyas

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TV Serials

PYAR KI KASHTI MEIN

Star One; 39 episodes x 22 min, Hindi

Produced by : Hummingbird Films in association with BAG Films

Directed by : Sridhar Rangayan

Setting sail on an exciting journey of romance, fun, frolic, humour and drama - on a luxury cruiseliner off Singapore & Malaysia.

Avinash’s mother Mrs.Mehrotra and Minakshi’s father Mr.Pillai have vowed that they will get Avinash and Minakshi to fall in love, come what may. A tarot card reader predicts that the ‘cosmic union’ can only happen where water and iron are compatible, meaning a ship! Will the boy and girl fall in love? Will the ‘cosmic union’ happen?

To put the best laid plans to waste is a sexy seductress Rita and a rake Manav as well as 12 other tourists on the cruise who have their own take on love - an entertaining experience !

Cast : Anang Desai, Achint Kaur, Arun Govil, Neelu Kohli, Kamini Khanna, Ikhlaq Khan, Nishigandha Wad, Sachin Verma, Sampada Vaze

APNA APNA STYLE

Zee TV, 15 episodes x 22 min, Hindi

Produced by : Kunal Kohli Productions

Directed by : Sridhar Rangayan

Hari and Suman is an orthodox couple who have brought up their children Alka and Ajay with good Indian values. Hari’s brother Ashwin returns from US and decides to stay at Hari’s house with his wife Shalini, their children Rocky and Kay who are completely western in their thinking.A clash of tradition and values lead to hilarious situations and great fun – a zany sitcom.

Cast : Ratna Pathak Shah, Navin Nischol, Lilette Dubey, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Gautam Rode, Mehul Nissar, Poorvi Shanghvi, Samantha

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KRISSHNA ARJUN

Star Plus; 16 episodes x, 22 min, Hindi

Produced by : Contiloe Films in association with Cinevistas Ltd

Directed by : Sridhar Rangayan

Written by : Sridhar Rangayan & Saagar Gupta

Stories : Joker, Whiz Kids, Cursed Painting, Band of Boys

Two private detectives – Krisshna, a haughty girl and Arjun, a charismatic bubbly guy – are out to solve cases of crime in Mumbai – be it an antique stolen painting from a museum or a stash-load of money stolen from a rock group, the duo is irrepressible. A la Remington Steele, this serial is an adventure thriller with loads of humour and attitude.

Cast : Hussein Kuwajerwala, Shraddha Nigam

KAHAANI JURRM KI

Star Plus; 4 episodes x 22 min, Hindi

Produced by : MidiTech Ltd.

Directed by : Sridhar Rangayan

CUPBOARD

A con man Bijlani who disguises himself as a sadhu is vying for a plot of land and he is ready to kill for it. His kink – he buries women alive inside a cupboard. Juhi who returns from US is unaware that her mother is dying inside the cupboard under the very ground even as she walks over it. The sadhu is now after Juhi’s life… Will the Sadhu bury Juhi too inside the cupboard – alive?

Cast : Shishir Sharma, Neelanjana, Bakul Thacker, Neha Bam

AGWAAH

A look into the call girl racket - An innocent teenager falls under the seduction of a call girl who kidnaps him for a ransom. What she didn’t bargain for was that the youth’s father is a dreaded underworld don – who is ready to spill blood to rescue his son.
The thorn in the don’s way is actually his own son who is madly in love with the call girl. A cat and mouse game with racy adventure

Cast : Tom Alter, Vishal, Payal Nair

HAQEEKAT

Sahara One, 4 episodes x 22 min, Hindi

Produced by : BAG Films

Directed by : Sridhar Rangayan

Stories in Haqeeqat revolve around human rights violations in India. The arms of the law enforcing agencies themselves perpetrate many of these, making it a case of real concern. The question it raises is very dramatic: Where does the average citizen of India run to when the very guarantors of his human rights turn assaulters? Stark in its presentation minus any gloss or superficiality, and bold in its treatment, the series was hugely popular with its viewers.

Stories: Police disaffection; Dowry deaths

KAGAAR

Sahara, Stories of 2 episodes X 6 Stories X 22 min, Hindi

Produced by : Aqua Pictures

Directed by : Sridhar Rangayan

Written by : Sridhar Rangayan & Saagar Gupta

LOOT

Four teenage drug-addicts rob a bank. One is shot dead. Three escape with the ‘loot’. But soon they discover they have been conned - the loot in the trunk is just old newspapers!

The police, a local goon & the bank manager are on their back! They are on the run… ! Who had set them up ?

A teenage adventure – racy and poignant.

Cast : Tom Alter, Usha Bachani, Aditya Om, Vinod Singh, Vandita Vasa, Girish Pardesi, Ajay Rohilla, Masood Akhtar

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POORNAVIRAAM

A celebrity writer is being threatened by a character from his book. The character is mad and has escaped from the asylum! The writer is also troubled by his past – an ex-girlfriend and her husband… and ghosts of his mind…

As characters from the book start appearing in his life, the writes veers to the edge - Reality and illusion merge!

Cast : Aamir Bashir, Mona Ambegaonkar, Bakul Thacker, Ankit Sagar, Radhika Menon, Pawan

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HOSTEL

A working hostel - an eerie hostel full of eccentric people: an old psychiatrist, a sexually repressed woman, a homosexual and a schizophrenic girl.

One after another die - and Priya wakes up at every site of death with blood on her face and a gun in her hand!

Is she the killer? She doesn’t remember anything!

Cast : Meghna Malik, Sohraab Ardershir, Shishir Sharma, Atul Kumar, Priyanka, Devika Shahani, Ashok Banthia, Javed Rizvi

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DUVIDHA

A rapist and serial killer strikes again - but his latest victim escapes… A married woman is the only witness, but she cannot confess because she was with her secret lover at that time.

She asks her lover to report! Everybody is in a dilemma - the lady, the lover & the rape victim.

Cast : Harsh Chayya, Akshay Anand, Vaishnavi, Sunita Sengupta

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UNMAAD

A friend of the husband who comes to stay for a few days falls in love with the wife! He kills the husband... and the wife comes to know… through photographs clicked from an automatic camera! What will she do? How will she avenge her dear husband's murder?

Cast : Mona Ambegaonkar, Raj Zutshi, Vinay Pathak

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THE STALKER

An innocent taxi driver is convicted of the murder of a cop… the cop's brother makes sure he gets a life imprisonment. Now after 8 years he is out … to torment the brother and his ex-girlfriend… it is a vicious cat and mouse game… the stalker & the stalked!!

Cast : Pawan Malhotra, Vinay Jain, Tara Mehta, Winnie Paranjpye, Navin Bawa



Awareness Film

SURMANTHAN

1988, Hindi, 42 mins

Produced by : Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped

Directed by : Sridhar Rangayan & Sunil Chavan

Written by : Sridhar Rangayan & Sunil Chavan

A dramatic story about a hearing and speech impaired boy in a village and how he copes with his abusive father and challenges in school and society. The story creates awareness about the challenges faced by hearing & speech impaired persons and how a young boy overcomes them to become a productive member of the society.

Cast : Ila Arun, K.K.Raina, Vinod Dubey, Nishigandha Wad, Ravi Sharma

Editor : Gajendra Singh DOP: Mohan Hari Music: Sharada

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Writer, Associate / Assistant Director

DAWN / AWAKENING

26 Episodes on Star Plus / 13 episodes on DD National

Directed by : Kalpana Lajmi & Dr.Bhupen Hazarika

Written by & Associate Director : Sridhar Rangayan

A dramatic serial in English about a beautiful romance between a tea plantation owner and a servant girl set against the backdrop of the freedom struggle in Assam during the 40s. A lyrical tale on a grandiose scale with elephant catching operation, bihu dances and cavalry of horses.

Cast : Shahbaaz Khan, Mona Ambegoankar, Arif Zakaria, Tom Alter, Deepa Lagoo, Vihang Nayak, Abhay Kulkarni, Iravati Harshe, Denzil Smith, Paritosh Painter, Romanchak

PAPEEHA

26 Episodes on Star Plus / 13 episodes on DD National

Directed by : Sai Paranjpye

Assistant Director : Sridhar Rangayan

A touching sensitive story set against the backdrop of the lush jungles of Maharastra. A love story between an idealist anthropologist and a scrupulous forest office aided by lovely tribal girls and naughty tribal children. The powers-that-be are plotting to mow the forest down and build a factory. Will the tribals succeed in protecting their environment, will the love story fructify, will the Papeeha (nightingale) continue to sing?

Cast : Milind Gunaji, Winnie Paranjpye, Raghubir Yadav, Manohar Singh

Music : Dr.Bhupen Hazarika

ENGLISH, AUGUST

Directed by : Dev Benegal

Associate Director & Additional Screenplay : Sridhar Rangayan

Assistant Director : Sridhar Rangayan

A cult movie about a ennui-ridden IAS officer who is searching for meaning in work and life. A story told stylistically through innovative screenplay devices, ingenious camerawork and state-of-the-art editing.

Cast : Rahul Bose, Shivaji Sattam, Mita Vashisht, Virendra Saxena

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