Paying floral respect to Remie J. Colaco. His daughter is seen above.
On 1st of
this month, Thursday, at 7.00 PM at Open Air Kala Academy Panjim, I saw the
most popular Tiatro written by Remie J. Colaco and nicely directed by William Fernandes.
It was originally staged by Remie about 60 years back and it was like a
sensation then being very good, very decent and very well performed by those
great artistes of yesteryears. Those greats are not replaceable and those who missed them seeing on the stage
they missed something great.
Anthony San singing a song based on remie colaco
Remie Colaco's daughter
Ms Blanch was brought to the stage to pay floral homage to the great departed
soul along with all the artistes who were presented with mementoes THRU the hand of Blanch.
One scene
All the songs were old
in the Side Show segment from different singers but some of the best songs of
the scriptwriter were forgotten. They are golden songs of which type nobody can
compose now. It was a good opportunity to showcase those golden songs, if
necessary some help could have been provided but now it.is late.
Anicedo de St. Cruz on his solo
Among the singers who
sang well were Anicedo de Santa Cruz,
Anthony san, William Fernandes and Lourdes who in fact stole the whole show by
beautifully rendering her solo and 2 duets one with Aniciedo and the other with William.
Another scene
Lourdes on her solo
The play was performed well by all the artistes though they could
not come to the level of those who performed 70 years back yet they all deserve
compliments males and females. Hower, the high grade Sarees wore by the wife of
the Render was not right neither her excessive make-up especially when you are
at home.
Duo by Anicedo & his partner
A duet by William & Lourdes
Souza Ferrao was
remembered by many for playing his role perfectly well so too Jacinto Vaz. May God
bless their souls and of all the departed greats. Day by day the oldies are
dwindling from the Konkani stage thus Konkani stage turning poor and poor
because replacements are not coming.
one more scene
The comedy role played by acrobatic natural comedian Nato was very good
whose every entry was greeted well by the audience. Comedian Pidu did his part
well as per his capacity.
As a whole the tiatro was enacted and
William and his troupe did well.
A.Veronica fernandes.
