margao a 17yearold teenager when she first acted in the super hit konkani movie amchem noxib rita lobo now landers is now a 71yearold senior citizen who is extremely flattered with all the accolades that she has received from her fans including the tiatr academy of goa tag lifetime contribution to konkani cinema awards 2015 on friday at ravindra bhavan margao in a candid chat with toi rita divulged that she had initially refused the offer made to her to act in this movie by the films producer frank fernand and director a salam since being born in mangalore on january 2 1944 the goan konkani dialect vastly differed with that she spoke it was the director who taught her konkani as she did her scenes she confides incidentally this is the only movie that she acted in though popular konkani artiste late anthony mendes introduced her to bollywoods raj kapoor who asked her if she knew hindi and told her to learn hindi and get back to him which she never did she has no regret for turning down this offer as she claims that she was an acclaimed singer who was spotted by the amchem noxib producer and director who entered the ali baba restaurant in mumbai where she was crooning they were so impressed with her performance that they immediately offered her the role of lead actress in the movie as their advertisements in the newspapers and auditions had not provided them with the suitable response they sought rita nostalgically still recollects the first day on the sets of amchem noxib where she was made to cry it was a love scene in the film where the couple holding hands and smiling at each other it took them the whole day to shoot this scene and the director salam was very angry he shouted at me since i had to cry the scene of the boat was shot in boriville mumbai but the rest of the movie was shot in goa she mentions adding that she had turned down many other movie offers that came her way following the tremendous success of amchem noxib i received a lot of compliments from people who have watched this movie and told me they liked it some even invited me to their homes and remarked on my looks i told them i have now grown old you cannot expect me to look the same the fisheries department had invited me for a show that was held in goa in navelim in 2014 remarked rita who now resides in andherimumbai she is married to melville landers and has three sons clint dan and dax and a daughter claudelle her parents were late john lobo of thotammangalore and late marceline lobo of mulkimangalore