Upon further inquiry, I was given to understand that much of the film cited below was shot in Goa. Which means it has archival value documenting the Goa/Panjim of the late 1960s (the shoddy camera work notwithstanding). The film was released in 1971 which means the production must have taken place a year or two earlier.
Perusing the headers on the Goanet archive page I am amused by the obsession with Trump. What the US election has to do with Goa is hard to see. There is a connection though, however peripheral. If Goa had had a Trump-like elected leader in the years following 'Liberation', someone who enunciated a "Goa First" ethos and rallied Goans to the cause, we might still have something like the Goa we see in this film, and not the filth India has brought to us now. To be clear, this is/was not a wish for someone with separatist goals (that ship was never going to sail). Rather, for someone who stood for preserving the land, our identity, and asserting the primacy of Goans in their own homeland. Instead, right from the get-go we got 'leaders' who sold us out for a few pieces of silver. Without exception. r On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 11:09 PM Rajan Parrikar <[email protected]> wrote: > I came upon this Hindi film song video purely by chance. The song is > forgettable but the scenes of Panjim are not (at least not to those of us > who grew up here). > > From around 2:30 in the clip, you see what Miramar once was. The rocket, > the maze! Even the old Clube Gaspar Dias. Note that the road that leads > past Miramar was tambdi maati, not asphalt, at the time. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0QLFZMk-5g > > > r > >
