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Flashback time for Big B in Goa It was way back in 1969, that Amitabh Bachc-han made his way to Goa to shoot for his first film, Khwaja Ahmed Abbas’s Saat Hindustani. Now he is back there as the Big B for the International Film Festival of India... and it has been a nostalgic trip. The evergreen, Bombay to Goa, with Aruna Irani, also left a lasting impression on Bachchan as the entire unit travelled to Goa in a bus. "We were all new. So the experience was something we all cherish. We had so much fun", he says. "We literally lived in the forest. Goa had just been liberated from the Portuguese and was very raw back then, a deep jungle," he says going into a flashback. Read full text at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/944577.cms His face lights up again when we bring him back to his memories of Goa. "Even though it is peaceful and full of greenery, the rawness of Goa is missing," he smiles. Goa enamoured him so much that he shot five films here - Saat Hindustani, Bombay To Goa, Kabhi Kabhi and Pukar. "There was just one hotel when we were shooting for Saat Hindustani. We used to stay at the circuit house, which was in the deep jungle then. I will always remember Goa for its beaches, its sunshine, the peace, the serenity, and the awesome food. I can’t say much about the feni, because I don’t drink," he says. forwarded by Eddie Verdes
