On Sunday, 11th of this month, starting at 10.30
AM, I watched the new Tiatro “NOURO”
staged at Hanuman Theater Hall, Mapusa, by Peter Roshan. It was nice to see
this Tiatro starting exactly in time but it was thinly attended by the audience,
of course unexpectedly.
Though the story in the beginning is not very encouraging yet the last
part especially the ending scene was very interesting revolving around Biblical
term of forgiveness for the Nouro for his earlier mistake towards his first fiancée
whose role was played by Roshan.
One of the scenes
Roshan’s
role as a blind was more or less similar to the role played earlier in late
sixties by the great Ophelia Cabral in genius C. Alvares’ excellent Tiatro
“Kedna Udetelo To Dis” where C. Alvares was at his best with excellent script,
excellent direction and excellent depiction.
For this reason Tiatro audience is still remembering C. Alvares and his
excellent cast. Many of the current directors though they try to plagarise C. Alvares
yet they remain very far from him. For this reason C. Alvares remained unique.
He knew whom to entrust what role and at his disposal he had all the best
artistes, such artistes are not in existence now. He knew what dress code an
artiste to use for certain roles and precisely because of this Ophelia gained
great limelight in her role as “Kuddem Anita” in his most memorable Tiatro
“Kedna Udetolo To Dis”. C. Alvares was a
perfect and seasoned director. Today’s directors cannot emulate him, either in
script or in direction.
Peter - Roshan singing a duet
It is a pity that today we don’t have great script writers
and directors for this reason this Tiatro art is gone into the hands of tin - pot
writers and directors whose only motto is to gain commercial benefit. For this reason without proper home work and
research many of the present day directors come out with new – new Tiatros in
new – new seasons. And by the way, how many among the present directors are
real script writers?
Roshan & Clara sing on Antonette de Calangute
The Tiatro “Nouro” lacked serenity normally associated with
the traditional Tiatro, it was more of chaotic where unnecessary screaming
played a major role because of which it sounded disturbing to the ears and
hence tasteless. The Band consisting of 6 instruments also played very loud
music thereby preventing some in the audience to lose the track of the words
rendered by the singers. The musical feeling played during the play was
disturbing. The comedy part was handled by comedian Brian and his partner. It
was nice to see him back on the Stage after his accident. May God help him to
recover completely without any defect.
The Side Show songs failed to elevate the level of this
Tiatro though one song on the late Antonette de Calangute rendered by Roshan
and veteran Clara was superb and it is worth listening. Both the solos rendered
by youngster Brandon were good, incidentally he is the son of Peter – Roshan.
The political duet rendered by Peter and Roshan on election and Parrikar was beautiful.
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