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exclusively created by him, which is still being used in film songsand private album as well. While he was busy as a music directorhe was constantly invited by great masters of film music, suchas, Roshan, Salil Chaudhary, Kalyanji-Anandji, to play tabla /dholak. He contributed a great deal with his mesmerizing ' DattuTheka '.The documentary tells a story of an ordinary boy withperhaps no specific dreams, who came from Goa to Mumbaiand eventually became a celebrated music director in the Hindifilm industry. The film focuses some of the major aspects ofhis career, such as his training under Pt. PandharinathNageshkar and Pt. Yashvant Kerkar from whom he learnttabla, his association with music director duo Shankar -Jaikishan. Pyarelal of Laxmikant - Pyarelal duo, Anil Mohileand playback singer Suresh Wadkar speak about Dattaram inthe film.CAST AND CREDITSProducer:Director:Cinematography :Editing :Contact:ASHOK RANEPassiflora FilmsAshok RanePrakash SamelJesalPassiflora Films,V/27 Kamat Villas,Caranzalem, Panaji - 40300, IndiaTel.: (+91) (832) 2452348Ashok Rane is a Film Critic, Researcher,Documentary maker and Academician. He hassix books to his credit. He has received twoNational Awards, one each in Best book oncinema and Best Film category. He has beenvisiting faculty in Mumbai University, SNDTand various other prestigious Institutions. Hehas also lectured in various Universities U.S.and Europe. He is the director of Indian Film Academy(www.ifacinema.com) through which he conducts various filmrelated workshops, specially on Film Appreciation and ScriptWriting. He has been attending film festivals world over and wasa member of FIPRESCI Jury at Moscow and Montreal FilmFestival. He has conceived, written and directed a documentary'Singing in Cinema' dealing with songs and dance forms ofIndian Cinema which has been well received at home and abroad.'Masti Bhara Hai Sama' is his second documentary.DIRECTOR'S STATEMENTBeing a film critic and researcher I always felt a strongneed to do some archival work for Indian cinema. I madefirst attempt with a documentary, ' Singing In Cinema ',researched-written-directed by me, which deals withuniqueness of our cinema, its song dance format. This wasproduced by Indian Film Academy (www.ifacinema.com),which I established to carry out academic activities related tocinema.I met quite accidentally Mr Shreekant Joshi and his wifeMrs Mrinalini Joshi at IFFI 2006, who are ardent andpassionate lovers of Hindi film music, especially music ofShankar-Jaikishan and Dattaram. They asked me to do adocumentary on great maestro Dattaram and put all theirefforts to make this becomes a reality. We wanted to make afilm mainly to salute this great composer, which can be anarchival material. This is how 'Masti Bhara Hai Sama' wasmade.We shot the film in small village called Mavlinge in Dicholitaluka of Goa where Dattaramji was living after his retirement.At 78 his memory was remarkable and he had a very uniqueway of describing everything with minute details about hiscareer, his association with the legendary Raj Kapoor, hismentors Shankar - Jaikishan, other prominent music directors,playback singers and above all the whole process ofcomposing of some of the memorable songs. It was a great76 77