Nachom-ia Kumpasar has been in the making since 2004 and cost Rs 3.5 crore, but that figure doesn’t include the free labour donated by well-wishers. Palomi Ghosh and Vijay Maurya in Nachom-ia Kumpasar. Barretto also consulted Anthony Gonsalves, the musician and arranger who worked closely with Hindi film music composer Pyarelal Sharma. The music is by Jackson Pereira and Ronnie Monserrate. Goan singer Cielda Pereira sings Cordeiro’s songs in the movie. Followers of Konkani pop will be familiar with the names associated with the production.
“There were songs about flirting, then there was love, and then there were song about their love gone wrong,” the 45-year-old director said. The songs are featured in a chronological order and keep tune with the ebbs and flows of the relationship. I felt that the musicians should get their due, which is why the music is the hero of the film.” There were too many versions and variations of the story, so I can say that my film is based on hearsay. “We also grew up with rumours about their relationship. “There was no television at home in those days, and we grew up listening to the songs of Chris and Lorna,” said Barretto, who now lives in Mumbai and runs an advertising production company called Brown Skins.
The movie emerged from memories of the music that wafted over Barretto’s formative years in Goa between 19. “At some point, you realise that you have to give back to where you come from,” said Barretto, who grew up in Goa. (Perry died in 2002.) Barretto shifted the focus towards the jazz-inflected Konkani music, which remains highly popular and made stars out of its main performers. Naturally, it has several songs – 20 of them, based on Perry’s original recordings and featuring Cordeiro’s powerful voice.īarretto had originally planned a biopic on the pair, but he abandoned it after Cordeiro refused to cooperate. Loosely inspired by the real-life affair between composer and songwriter Chris Perry and singer Lorna Cordeiro and showcasing the contributions of Goans to the music scene in Mumbai in the 1960s and ‘70s, Nachom-ia Kumpasar (Let’s Dance to the Rhythm) stars Mumbai actors Vijay Maurya and Palomi Ghosh in the lead roles. In the meanwhile, Bardroy Barretto’s more modest but no less ambitious passion project Nachom-ia Kumpasar, which is set in the same era and focuses on the star-crossed romance between a jazz trumpeter and a singer, is being shown at special screenings across Goa.
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