Blast from the past: This film started the trend of shooting abroad
by Filmfare | April 27, 2021, 21:07 IST
Watching foreign locales in our films seems to be the norm these days. We hardly ever give it a thought and basically take it for granted. Going abroad isn’t really that difficult as it once was. Nowadays, travel companies even offer you an EMI option for your dream vacation in Europe. And thanks to the internet, you can have virtual walk-throughs of almost any location on earth, be it Madurai or Machu Picchu. So the foreign locales have lost something of a novelty. But what if you’re transported back in the ’60s, where going abroad still had a huge allure. Most of India’s population didn’t even travel by air domestically and taking a flight to Western destinations held huge aspirational value. It was something which only the rich did.