How a fledgling Goan film industry is reinventing Konkani cinema

The film culture in Goa has experienced renewal after a few Konkani films had impressive runs

Bardroy Barretto’s native village of Galjibaga, in the southern reaches of Goa, would host the movies only a couple of times a year. This was understandable given even the local bus ferried only twice a day there. The same two ragingly popular Konkani films, Amchem Noxib (1963) and Nirmon (1966), were showed alternately throughout the 1970s and 1980s in an open ground with a hired projector, usually after sunset. The excitement in the lead-up was so all-consuming that by the time the show actually started, Barretto, in his tweens then, often ended up sleeping through it. “We would spend hours