highlighting the presence
of Bollywood stars Jackie Shroff, Tabu and Anupam Kher – boiled down from a
initial list that had also featured Namrata Shirodkar, Pallavi Joshi, Milind
Gunaji, Sudesh.Bhosle and ‘Shaktiman’ hero Mukesh Khanna.The II Goa State Film Festival
Exclusive Report for Goa-World.Net By Alister Miranda
Panjim’s Kala Academy played
host to the ‘II Goa State Film Festival’ on Saturday, July 8, 2000.
Organised by the Information & Publicity Department, the bi-annual event was
well attended. But one couldn’t be sure if the public, braving the torrential
rains, had come out of love for Konkani films or whether they were attracted by
the advertisements that appeared in the local dailies highlighting the presence
of Bollywood stars Jackie Shroff, Tabu and Anupam Kher – boiled down from a
initial list that had also featured Namrata Shirodkar, Pallavi Joshi, Milind
Gunaji, Sudesh.Bhosle and ‘Shaktiman’ hero Mukesh Khanna.
The chief guest, Chief Minister Francisco Sardinha arrived on the dot at 5.30 pm, yet the function failed to take off; thanks to the non-arrival of the film stars. Arrive they did, but a good 35 minutes late - predictably, their late coming was blamed on the delayed Mumbai-Goa flight. Tabu, however, did not turn up.
It was amusing to watch
attendants hurriedly mop up the water that surfaced from the area between the
stage and the first row of
the Dinanath Mangueskar Auditorium, seconds before
the Stars could arrive. As a matter of fact, the air-conditioned auditorium
faces this perennial problem every monsoon, as a result of which the authorities
shut it down, thus robbing Tiswadi on its only monsoon entertainment – Tiatrs.
The stage was impressively done
up, but what took the shine away was the shabby table and table-cloth behind
which Sardinha, 
Shroff, Kher and Information Minister Subhash Shirodkar sat
during the introductory function compered by charming Charushila Kamat.
Information & Publicity Director’s welcome address was followed with
speeches by Shirodkar, Shroff, Kher
and Sardinha. Shroff mentioned that he will be settling in the State in the near
future, as he spoke glowingly of Goa and Goans. He also appealed that Goa be
saved, while highlighting its natural beauty. Kher on the
other hand seemed
bowled over by Sardinha’s charisma and praised the debonair chief minister to
the skies. While commenting on the number of entries received for the film
festival, the most versatile actor of Indian cinema, Kher, expressed his
disappointment and said he hoped to see 80 films for the next film festival and
not just 8. One wonders whether Kher was aware that the 8 ‘films’ he and his
Bollywood colleague had flown down to felicitate were actually video films and
not 35mm cinema films.
When Sardinha endorsed what Shirodkar had declared in his speech: that a ‘Film City’ would be set up in Goa within the next two years, one could not help but chuckle. All this even though the last Konkani movie made for the Silver Screen was more than 20 years ago!
The introductions over,
once the chief guest and the film stars took their seats among the
audience, the awards ceremony
began. The producers, directors, artistes waited expectantly as Updesh Swar,
who now joined Kamat, set the ball rolling. With nine nominations to
their name, Bonifacio Dias’ To Dis Udelo cast was in full strength and
looked confident of reaping a good harvest. But that was not to be. The veteran
video film maker’s To Dis Udelo could
win just three awards – the ‘Best Dialogue’(Anil Kumar), ‘Best
Supporting Actress’ (Jyothi Kunkonlienkar)
and the ‘Second Best Film’ award, which he shared with Hans Mure
Hans. The awards that many opined To Dis Udelo should have won were
‘Best
Supporting Actor’ – played by Sandeep Kalangutkar in the role of
‘Lobo’, Agostinho D’Cruz for ‘Best Music Director’ 
and Roshan for
‘Best Playback Singer’. The
awards – an oscar like trophy and
cash prizes amounting to Rs 3 lakh, were shared by Tyaag, Hans Mure Hans,
Dista Tashem Nasta and To
Dis Udelo. The Best Film award awarded to Tyaag – a film by Goa
Doordarshan, was accepted by the assistant station director Yusuf Sheikh and the
DD team, alongwith the Best Actress winner Amita Nayak Salatry, who acted out
the role of ‘Roma’ in the film. Mahadev Khanolkar was adjudged best actor (Hans
Mure Hans). The function, which was interspersed with songs by Sylvester Vaz,
Baby Mona Lisa and Dilip Chico, and
a magic show by D’Satish, ended
with a colourful cultural tableau conceived by Francisco Martins.
And The Winners Are………
Best Cineamtography – Uday Nageshkar (Tyaag)
Best Story – Rohidas Shirodkar (Tyaag)
Best Dialogue – Anil Kumar (To Dis Udelo)
Best Music Director – Nitin Mardolkar (Dista Tashem Nasta)
Best Lyrics – Verada D. Gaad Kerkar (Yugayugachem Geet Mogachem - Dista Tashem Nasta)
Best Playback Singer – Bindiya Vast (Yugayugachem Geet Mogachem – Dista Tashem Nasta)
Best Supporting Actor - Subhash Parkar ( Hans Mure Hans)
Best Supporting Actress – Jyothi Kumkonlienkar (To Dis Udelo)
Best Child Artiste – Manali R Naik (Tyaag)
Best Director – 1. Vithal Naik (Tyaag)
2. Mahadev Khanolkar (Dista Tashem Nasta)
Best Actor – Mahadev Khanolkar (Hans Mure Hans)
Best Actress – Amita Nayak Salatry (Tyaag)
Best Film – 1. Tyaag
2. To Dis Udelo & Hans Mure Hans
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