It was somewhere in the first week of February 1989 when the Film crew headed by the then top Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan directly descended on Candolim Church, ”Our Lady Hope”, Police gheraoed the Church and Amitabh Bachchan hijacked the sanctuary of the Church.. With the brute mighty support of the local Police Force, the top actor along with the filming crew entered the Church and closed all the main Doors of the Church which were strongly guarded by the Policemen from outside denying entry inside and around to any concerned villager. Still somebody from the village sneaked inside the Church and tried to ring the main Bell to gather the faithful for some emergency in the Church. When Police noticed this, they went to brutally assault him.
When someone else from the village thru the back door entered the Church, he saw the crew filming the wedding scene vulgarly and Amitabh Bachchan sitting cross-legged in a vulgar pose with a cigarette in his mouth while the Confessional was shifted next to the Tabernacle without any respect for the sanctity of the Church.
When the locals gathered in big number surprisingly they found both the Pe. Vigar Santimano and the Pe. Cur Cypriano D’Silva missing from the Church. It was alleged that they have granted the permission for this filming without proper authorization from the higher authority for a price. How much? Some said in thousands while others said in lakhs.
Immediately the next day this news appeared in the local daily Herald forcing one local Congressman on behalf of Parish Council to deny many facts of this news which almost everyone rubbished it as worthless though earlier as per the information the same Congressman encouraged some locals to make a big noise against this vulgar filming in the Church. Some villagers even said that along with both the priests, he was also purchased by the Film director because as we know very well that the 3 P’s, namely Priests, Police and Politicians are purchasable commodities.
Today we see many corrupt politicians who earlier supported corruption when they had power in their hands are rotting now as worthless pimps because they are now like fish out of water. While, priests who proved to be corrupt and traitors like both the then Candolim Church priests should be condemned. This type of priests are worst than Judas who for the sake of money will do anything. When the matter of money comes, most of the priests are capable of doing anything even selling the house of God as it happened below my nose because the big boss at Altinho is least bothered, what he wants is his regular supply of money. The greater the supply the greater the extention of Pe. Vigar’s term in the Church even though that Pe. Vigar is a nuisance for the faithful as some around my vicinity.
Candolim, Goa.
Tel: 7507394349.