Dil
Vil
Pyar Vyar
Hits a Good Start
With
Anant Mahadevan's debut
as a director is born
a new genre of Bollywood
movie. He prefers to call
Dil Vil Pyar Vyar
"a retro musical". The
film has a sound track
based on Rahul Dev Burman's
old hits - 14 songs in
all.
Produced
by Vivek Vaswani, the
film has banner of success
running ahead of the actual
release which is still
a good two weeks away.
Within a week of hitting
the market the album has
sold almost three lakh
units, say industry reports.
This has naturally thrilled
the director and the producers.
The
reason for choosing Panchamda's
music for such a unique
film
is the relevance of his
contribution even today.
And what has helped in
accomplishing a perfect
job is Bablu Chakraborty
doing the entire remixing.
Bablu is the man who used
to arrange the music for
RD. This has given a genuine
touch to the songs used
in the film.
Mahadevan
has also experimented
with the theme and the
storyline which has three
pairs of lovers. Apart
from Mahadevan himself,
there are Jimmy Shergil,
Sanjay Suri and a line-up
of new-comer heroines
like Namrata Shirodkar,
Sonali Kulkarni and Hrishita
Bhatt. Among the supporting
cast are Kiran Kumar,
Asrani, Tiku Talsania,
Rita Bhaduri and Gulshan
Grover. Dipannita Sharma,
Mini Mathur and Riya Sen
make special appearances.
Surfeit
of songs and music and,
above all, the name of
RD Burman ran the risk
of the story getting drowned
in the flood of tunes.
But Mahadevan, aware as
he was of this danger,
has seen to it that such
a thing does not happen.
It is the music that goes
to the aid of the story
and not vice versa.
For
the cast it has been an
exciting experience. All
of them, Sonali, Hrishita
and above all Namrata
are dreaming of achieving
stardom, if the movie
clicks at the box-office.
They all hope the experience
they had during the making
of the film is passed
on to their fans too.
