Crossing the Blues

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

ZOR LAGAA...KE HAIYA raises environmental issues

Actress Riya Sen photo

Gemini Picture's ZOR LAGAA...KE HAIYA, the Bollywood movie written and directed by Girish Girija Joshi, comes to the theaters with awards like Silver Palm Awards in Mexico International Film Festival, Silver Remi Award in Houston Film Festival and has official finalist in 2009 Las Vegas International Film Festival, Zin Film Festival in Czech Republic and Big Island Festival in Hawaii.

ZOR LAGAA...KE HAIYA is produced by Basant Talreja and Kartikeya Talreja and the music is composed by Bappi-Tutul and lyrics penned by Amitabh Verma. The film features Mithun Chakraborty, Mahesh Manjrekar, Riya Sen, Sachin Khedekar, Raj Zutshi, Seema Biswas, Gulshan Grover and child artistes Megan, Ayesha Kaduskar, Hardik Thakkar, Ritvik Tyagi and Ashwin Chitale.

The film ZOR LAGAA...KE HAIYA is about how a group of children try to save a tree that they treat as their home and play ground from being felled by a money-minded construction giant and his contractor. The children are helped by a homeless man, whom they call Ravan. The construction giant wants to build a multi-storied building there.

ZOR LAGA KE...HAIYA is different and innovative from the usual products from the Bollywood stable with its thought-provoking theme. The film highlights the apathy of today’s society to environmental issues. Through their relentless action, adventure and comedy the children finds out what it takes to stand their ground in the battle against concrete. The movie spreads out the global message of green revolution and motivates people to preserve earth for future generations.