Dear CM, Manest Manohar Parrikar,

Nomoskar!

I like the opening statement of this Indian reporter,
although I am not in favour of the wordings....."The
Governments of India and Goa...."... it does remind me
of the Portuguese regime....

Estrada de Goa!

Gaspar de Almeida
www.goa-world.com


India to invest $50m in international film festival
location

Bhuvan Lall in New Delhi
www.screendaily.com

The Governments of India and Goa, and the
Confederation of Indian Industries are clubbing
together to invest $50m into a project to turn the
coastal tourist paradise of Goa into the permanent
location for India’s travelling International Film
festival.

The 35th edition of the International Film Festival of
India in October 2004 will be held in the former
Portuguese colony, and will include an annual film and
television market.

Festival events will be held within a one kilometre
radius that will see the construction of a new
convention centre and up to seven new multiplexes.

Six hundred kilometres south of Mumbai, Goa already
has a hotel room capacity of 4,500 and an
international airport. In addition to the film
festival, Goa intends to keep the venue busy by
hosting regional festivals, art and culture and
fashion shows.

A delegation headed by Suresh K. Amonkar, the Minister
for Tourism in the Goa government and accompanied by
Information Secretary Ms. Jayashree Raghuraman and
Information Director Rajesh Singh, attended Cannes
this year to examine the workings of the international
film festival.


- Forwarded by Gaspar Almeida of www.goa-world.com



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