Yesterday it was curtains for the 54th IFFI 2023 in Goa. IFFI being held in Goa for the last 15 years or more has put it on the world cinema map, but more needs to be done in terms of infrastructure like upkeep of dilapidated roads, accident free transport system, world class eateries, upscaling of IT sector as prerequisite in advance cinematography, world class public toilets and washrooms. Cinema generates employment for top actors, and countless others in the ancillary, and subsidiary sectors. Script and song writing are multifold with high returns for the right skills and reputed personnel. Fashion and costume designers along with tailors are in demand depending upon the varying needs in the long or short drawn out pre-planned sets. Motivation and right guidance have to be imparted to prospective youngsters for acquisition and generation of jobs in cinema. IFFI now that it has laid down its imprint on Goan soil has to be nurtured and gradually supported for its installation being a favourite city of numerous artists and administrators who prefer Goa to be made permanent venue by choice and not compulsion.
