Freak Street to Goa: Immigrants on the Rajpath

: Immigrants on the Rajpath is an impressionistic documentary about 'survivors' from the western subculture who travelled to India and Nepal in the sixties. The film has been built up around memories, stories and poetry of four writers and artists who eventually settled down in Asia. Dick, once a Harvard student and commercial artist, became a producer of macrobiotic food. Eddy, an underground writer from the fifties, became an artist. Jim, formerly a radical activist in the U.S. Army, now writes epic poems and novels. Woody, an ex-artist, now runs several bakeries in Kathmandu and Goa.
Apart from the biographical scenes the film consists of images and sounds of the journey the people from this subculture make every year between the Himalaya Mountains of Nepal and the beach of Goa in South India. The film was shot entirely on location. A large part of the pictures and interviews are illegal because the local government kept trying to put a stop to this film enterprise. It does not present the image of Nepal and India that is desired by them.