PRADEEP NAIK is
currently one of the best Konkani Stage artistes and among the few Hindu artistes
shining on Konkani Stage more beautifully. I must rate Pradeep Naik as the best among all. His forte lies in doing serious roles very
strongly and appropriately.
Pradeep Naik in the middle, next to the Chief Guest Prince Jacob
Hindus are known to act
in Marathi Nattaks in Goa while Christians in Konkani Tiatros. The late Alexinho de Candolim probably was known to
introduce for the first time on Konkani Stage some of the Hindus in his professional
Tiatros somewhere in late forties/early fifties, two
of them were Roghlo from Calangute and Kanta Divkar from Arpora. They were important artistes of his troupe
and they gained the expertise in this field by participating earlier in the
Marathi Nattaks where the standard was
very high. Alexinho Candolim was expert
in using the young talents of these youngsters then and as an ace natural
director without proper high educational background nor proper expertise and
training in this field, he acquired their services to promote and to flourish our
Konkani Stage.
Pradeep Naikh receiving Honours from Prince Jacob hands
Then came on the Konkani
Stage the most popular Hindu artiste, Kamat de Assolna from Assolna, Salcette
who was a very good singer, composer, director and script writer. He appeared
on Konkani Stage in early fifties and
very quicly in mid fifties he blossomed fruitfully with a fury where he carried
the Tiatro followers with him in big
number. However, shortly then after he migrated for greener pastures to
Portuguese Africa in Beira where too he displayed his stage talent occasionally.
Currently there are some Hindu Tiatrists among us on Konkani Stage who
are very dedicatedly serving the Konkani Stage and a few of them are Comedian
Ambe, Ullas Tari, Miss Shrutti and
Pradeep Naik. My choice as my favourite goes without any hesitation to Pradeep
Naik not only because he is a very good actor on the Stage but in his
personal life too he is a very good human being and above all as I am aware he
is the morally upright man and an upright husband and upright father. His upright persona life reflects on his Stage life.
Yesterday, along with
others from Tiswadi Goa, he was felicitated by the “125th
Anniversary of Tiatr Celebrations Committee: Tiatr Academy of Goa and
Directorate of Art and Culture”, in Panjim at Institute Menezes Braganza Hall,
at 4.00 PM for his excellence on Konkani Stage and his enormous contributions
in the promotion of Tiatros. Earlier too,
Pradeep Naik received lot of prizes for his contribution in the promotion of
Konkani Stage. I am very happy to see
Pradeep Naik receiving the latest award and for this I congratulate Pradeep
Naik.
A.Veronica Fernandes.
