– Finally Dont Miss the Swiss National Day fireworks sometime during the month of August and its a wonderful spectacle and a non stop experience. The Swiss Government is encouraging and promoting film shootings in Switzerland through “Film Location Switzerland” a government organisation offering logistical support to film producers from abroad. Furthermore, the Consulate General of Switzerland in Mumbai, in close collaboration with Switzerland Tourism – the official tourism arm of the Swiss Federal Governemnt, hold a number of events in India. In 1999 Mr. Shakti Samanta and Mr. Yash Chopra were felicitated for being ‘loyal friends’ of Switzerland with a citattion honoring them as “Honorary Guests for Life”, by Mr. Marco Hartmann, then President of Switzerland Tourism. As recently as in 2002, Mr. Yash Chopra was presented the Swiss Filmfare Award sponsored by Presence Switzerland, an institution of the Swiss Government, for playing a pioneering role in shooting Hindi films in Switzerland over the past 20 years. What a lot Yash Chopra has done for Swiss tourism!! I also came to know that there is a special tour operated from India which takes people to all the spots where Yash Chopra’s films have been shot!! AMAZING!!
I could not get Dev Anand and his beautiful song “Phoolon ke rang se, dil ki kalam se, tujhko likhi roz paati,”(with the colour of the flowers, with the pen of my heart,I write a letter to you everyday) out of my mind. If I remember correctly, it was sung in a train in Switzerland, in the movie Prem Pujari. The scene from that film, of those exquisite windows, full of flowers had been permanently etched on my mind. I was delighted to see that
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