I had heard from old folks that a portion of a film 'Jewel Thief' was shot at Singtam on the road stretch opposite Thakurbari Mandir where Dev Anand was running at the road chased by Police but sadly that shot never made it to the silver screen. Two major Hindi films were shot in Sikkim - 'Romeo in Sikkim' and 'Road to Sikkim' but I have no knowledge whether the film had any scene at Singtam.
Then in the mid-90s comes a Hindi film 'Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat', the debut film of Rani Mukherjee where I was a part of a crowd watching the shooting done near the old STNM Hospital flyover. One of the songs Palkon Mein Sapne Chamke Ahista beautifully sang by our own Nepali singer Poornima (Sushma Shrestha) is shot in different locales of Sikkim including Changu Lake and of course Singtam. The video of the song is given below and just watching that jumping from one stone to another she had a sudden slip at the riverside near Golitar.
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