NAME THE MAPUSA HALL AFTER THE LATE ALFRED ROSE.

In the history of Konkani Tiatros, what the late melodious singer Alfred Rose has done for the promotion and spread of Konkani, very few Tiatrists have done. According to my information, in Mapusa there is going to come up a big complex where the provision is made to have a big hall for the Tiatros. It is going to be the Government of Goa venture.

In the past Mapusa was to stage all the Tiatros where a big number of attendees  used to attend every show at the Narvenkakar's “Mattou”, opposite to the Police Station.  Since the last so many years, in the absence of the big hall with all the provisions and amenities, Mapusa become the dull place for watching the Tiatros in the present hall that lacks so many facilities which otherwise are a must.  Hence, it is imperative now to construct the new Hall at Mapusa which will cater to the needs  not only of Mapusa people but more than that of the people from surrounding places and villages as well.

Since it is certain to come up this hall in Mapusa, I feel befitting to his credentials and also in view of his tremendous contribution in the development of Goan Tiatros and Goan music, the new hall should be named after this genius, the late ALFRED ROSE whose melodious golden voice even attracted innumerable Marathiwadis towards Konkani especially during those turbulent  days immediately following the invasion of  Goa. In fact, the beautifully sweet voiced singer the late ALFRED ROSE attracted many of the Marathiwadi fanatics towards Konkani and  thus increased the number of Konknnivadis that helped us to win the Opinion Poll.    

In view of this, I  request the concerned authorities once again to name this hall after the late ALFRED ROSE who being a proud Bardezcar, carry more weight in this proposal since Mapusa also falls in Bardez and moreover Mapsa is the capital of Bardez.

 A.Veronica Fernandes.

NEW TIATRO "ZADD" BY MICHAEL DINIZ.

Best performance artiste Jessica

Yesterday in Panjim at Kala Academy Hall,  starting exactly at scheduled time 7.30 PM, I saw the most talked and most sought after Tiatro “ZADD” written and directed by Michael Diniz – a new comer it looks but he by staging this Tiatro already outpaced the many of the old comer Playwrights and if I am not mistaken this Tiatro I can rate as one of the best of the Season, at least from what I saw in this season. 

Releasing the Book of Cesar D'Mello seen at extreme left 

In above scene seen are Jessica-Anthony San-Peter 

Seen above is Nerisse Cardoso singing the title song.

Xavier Gomes seen singing his solo

After a long time I saw a fantastic comedy in this Tiatro which was beautifully performed by both the real ace comedian brothers, Prince Jacob and his brother Humbert.  The scene where Humbert plays the role of a fake Priest was very hilarious that produced peals of laughter in the Hall which was packed to capacity.  Along with both the brothers, John D’Silva and Meena Goes  contributed a lot to make the comedy admirable. It was nice to see both the comedian brothers again acting together and thus once again quenching the thirst of the audience of watching the excellent comedy. What they both perform together to the satisfaction of the audience they cant do individually. Hence, to elevate the level of our Tiatros it is imperative that they both reunite as they were earlier and help Konkani Stage to maintain its high level.

Benny de Aldona seen above singing his solo

Seen above Prince Jacob & Humbert performing the hilarious comedy 

Anthony San seen singing his solo

The Side Show songs were all rendered well, rarely in the recent past we saw such a nice Side Show even though Duets, Trios and Quarters were very much missing. These items are a part of Side Show and in the absence of these items the Side Show is not complete.  And if the Side Show is not complete the Tiatro is not complete because full Side Show is the part of Tiatro. Olga’s political solo was worth listening (2 encores), Benny de Aldona’s solo on the difference between new generation and old generation was very beautiful, it was composed very well and more than that it was rendered very beautifully by Benny with his majestic voice, Anthony San’s solo on Pope’s recent visit to Abu Dhabi was very interesting so also of Xavier Gomes’ solo “Mog Utor Devachem”, so too Rosario de Benaulim’s solo.  The title song rendered by Nerisa Cardozo was worth admiring, she sang it too nicely. Besides Ivan rendered his beautiful solo “Soireank Patienakant”, it was well composed with good rhyming and good theme and since I saw him first time on Konkani Stage yet I forsee him  to be perfect artiste.  Cajetan de Sanvordem rendered another beautiful solo with his sweet melodious voice on Pride. The young boy Baba Joshua rendered a beautiful solo with full of confidence on the current  events in Goa (one encore).

Seen in above scene are Roseferns and Jessica. 

Olga is seen here singing her Political song

John D'Silva is presented with a Trophy.

Seen singing his wonderful solo is Baba Joshua

The play was surrounded mainly on seasoned artistes Jessica and Rose Ferns as her second husband with Ivan as their son. The role of the first husband was well done by Anthony San  and the role of first son of first marriage was well performed by Willie and that of a kind hearted priest by Peter de Kakoda. The roles played by pretty looking Cia and Iwan as young lovers was fantastic.  However, the centre of attraction in the whole Play who gained more limelight by performing her role appropriately was beautiful Jessica with her attractive dress code and majestic personality besides her trebulous sweet voice.  The word “ZADD” is used  in figurative sense for  Willie  for him to develop and grow up like a Zadd after his father’s death.

Seen above is Iwan singing his beautiful solo

Peter de Benaulim singing his solo.

Before the start of the Tiatro, the organisers released the new book “Kallo Dhondo” of Ceasar D’Mello thru the hands of Prince Jacob and Roseferns who showered praises on the author and requested the attendees to purchase this book which cost Rs. 200/- This is his 7^th Book earlier he wrote 6 Books.

Seen in above scene are lovely looking Cia, majestic beauty Jessica and the King of centuries Roseferns.

One well wisher from Mapusa Mr. Peter D’Souza presented comedian John D’Silva with a Trophy in admiration of his comedy while another Bom Samaritan presented some cash money to Baba Joshua for his beautiful song which he rendered beautifully. 

It was strange to note that some of the artistes whose photos were indicated that they will participate were not acted. What is this?

Well done Micahel Diniz and his entire troupe including the Band.

A.Veronica Fernandes,

       

 

UNGRATEFULL RECIPIENTS OF OUR DONATION FROM KUWAIT.

The greatest tragedy in our life was the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq on 02.08.1990 because of which many of us suffered too much financially and because of this our family members too suffered along with us. Life was till that time going smoothly for MANY of us but with it, the invasion, everything went upside down since we  fell into financial bankruptcy. The financial crisis were so deep that some Kuwait evacuees from invaded Kuwait suffered mental strokes and other different sicknesses and many of them even died out of shock not  knowing  how to survive in such  a situation.  In fact, I was keeping a track of the obituaries appearing in Herald during that time whence I noticed continuously for so many weeks  one or two obituaries appearing per week of persons ex Kuwait, Kuwait returnees. This tragic event of Kuwaitkars made some people very happy and among these people were priests one of them was in fact enjoyed our  assistance which we  rendered to him in collecting funds from Kuwait for his activities and projects in Goa.  Besides him there were others too following him because I was demanding explanation of their expenses and transparency of our donations, they did not like my way of exposing our donations to the public and what fund we sent to them in Goa, they wanted everything to be done silently in the name of God. They should have realized that we had obligations towards those Goans from whom we collected the donations money which finally we sent to them.  As for me I did not want to be doubted by our donors in Kuwait and hence I wanted to open out every  paisa received as donation from our donors in Kuwait.   

The greatest beneficiary of our largesse were the priests but when Kuwait was invaded by Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and when we organized a movement in Goa by organising Public Meetings and Public Rallies in Panjim in support of Kuwait’s liberation, none of the priests associated with us.  In fact not even those who enjoyed our financial benefits  showed their solidarity to Kuwait openly by actively supporting us by joining us in Panjim in our Meetings and Rallies. Otherwise during that particular time almost every week there were so many Rallies and Public Meetings at Azad Maidan in Panjim on different issues, where so many Priests and Nuns seen participating but for our Public Meetings and Rallies none of them participated, so great “BEIMAN” were these so called Godly creatures wearing the holy robes when they were unholy.  They had firm opinion that Kuwait will never be liberated and Kuwaitkars who are barking like dogs in Panjim in the Public Meetings and Public Rallies will achieve nothing. I fail to understand how our priests the so called emissaries of God indicated their ingratitude to us and especially for me when I did so much for them in my individual capacity.  Were there no human hearts in them? Even the wild animals would not indicate such a hard heartedness.  Earlier, I never knew priests could come to this ebb.      

One priest in Mapusa said “Kuwaitkarank boot laglo tem borench zalem”.  Another priest at Old Goa when we went to offer a Mass for our cause, he said mockingly “Zalem, tumchem anik kitem urlam, Miss diun koslo faido?”. Likewise, many priests in Goa put salt on our wounds which was unbearable at that particular time when we were already sinking.  It hurt us more because the very persons who enjoyed our donations have criticized us for no fault of us. Our Parish Priest even refused to conduct especial prayers for the war/invasion of Kuwait victims when this priest knew how we Kuwaitkars supported the Church activities financially and its School. Here I came to know that how Satanisation of Priestly robes can be.  Here I came to know how cruel a priest can become.

There are a few who object my views expressed on this topic and they accuse me for resurfacing this topic again.  In fact these idiots have done nothing compared to what I have done to support the Priests especially before the invasion of Kuwait. It is very easy to pass comment and to quote Biblical quotes but to collect funds is not easy especially  from Kuwait, some of those who pass such comments were not even born at that time, one of them  from Kuwait came up in life by using his wife and preaching me “Padricho Sermao” when he is not even aware of what I have done, for him to do what I did he will have to take one more birth, the other objecting me by hiding his name under the petticoat of his concubine, like him there are others too.  If they are true and genuine then they must express their views by identifying themselves clearly and not by hiding their identities. This is the job of the cowards. 

Now some of the priests and other so called social workers are targeting Goans from UK and elsewhere for donations for them, for their activities which are morally upright and not upright, concerned Goans should be careful in sending donations to these people, many of them are corrupt, they are spending lavishly after their luxuries.  Do not allow them to misuse your donations and money, see that every donation is properly used. Money is the cause of all evil deeds and when you get easy money you are bound to spend it recklessly.   

While concluding, let me quote one incident happened in Kuwait.  One young Goan girl was selling Lottery Coupons in the Church Compound in Kuwait City.  Suddenly, the then Maltese Bishop of Kuwait Monsg. Fraancis Mechallef happened to reach there.  He immediately spotted that Lottery selling girl and asked her what she is doing?  The girl replied “these Lottery Coupons are sent from Goa by our Pe. Vigar to ollect fund to construct/repair our Church.  Then the Bishop asked her, do you have a house for you as your own? She said no.  Then the Bishop said “Why don’t you make Lottery Coupons for collecting money for your house? Don’t you need a house for you? She said “Yes I need”.  Then the Bishop said “come on, go ahead and I will also buy these Lotteries of yours.  Then he told her, “you don’t bring this type of Lottery business from your Church, your Goa Church is very rich, your Church leaders in Goa should know how to collect funds for such ventures instead of sending these coupons here.  Your Pe. Vigars and other priests don’t know how much difficulties you are facing in this country.  They think in Goa that money is just falling from top”?

A.Veronica Fernandes.