The team behind Noshaa call it Goa’s first action film. If so, then this is a breakthrough film for the industry in Goa. From the story, to the music and the action sequences, Noshaa promises to be a great watch
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Noshaa (addiction) is a Konkani film which traces the journey of a young man who is addicted to money, narcotics, women and power, who makes one wrong choice that affects him for the rest of his life. Always up for a challenge, Edison Gomes took upon the opportunity to direct and produce an action film when a friend P. Agnel Fernandes approached him two years ago. Fernandes has written the script for this film. “This is Goa’s first action film as earlier in Konkani cinema there have been only action-packed dialogue deliveries and car chase scenes, but no hardcore action with rippling muscles and able-bodied man always ready for a scrap. There are at least five action sequences with different stunts and the hardened characters are very expressive in their mannerisms through the film,” says Fernandes.
Given that this genre of film-making was not explored earlier in Konkani cinema and that the story-line impressed him, Gomes decided to finance it. But he isn’t sure why an action film wasn’t attempted before in Konkani cinema. “Perhaps nobody wanted to take a risk of doing an action film. When a film of a particular genre is happening for the first time, there is always a risk in the market if people will like it or not. Then why take it up? I saw the story and script, I liked it and decided to go ahead with it with proper planning put in place,” said Gomes on his directorial debut.
There’s a first time for everything, and this film has a lot of firsts. The music score was done by ace musicians and music directors Sancho Menezes and Dipak Manerikar. The leading role was given to a budding new actor too. “I came to know about the audition for the movie from my friends and one of them sent my pictures to the Director with whom soon I had a meeting,” said the well-built 29-year-old Amod Mardolkar. “Acting was a challenge at that time. Once selected, I was asked by the film-maker to build my physique to resemble a street fighter and not a body-builder. This endeavour took me 45 days thereby which I worked on my body and shed 12 kilos in the process,” he further added.
Since Amod had not acted before, it was a bit of a task to learn how to not just act, but act for the camera. “I was taught how to face the camera before we started the shoot. Initially it was a bit difficult. During the last action scene, we had to shoot for three nights and it was raining in between, I had to stay awake and keep pumping my muscles the whole night. This was the most difficult part in the movie,” he said.
