MAHAN MHOZO DES - 2.

It is now 10.45 pm and I am just arriving home from Calangute where in the Church compound I saw the Musical Show "Mahan Mhozo Des-2" staged by Tomazinho Cardoso and Tiatr Academy Goa. Scheduled to start at 7.00 pm, it finally started at 7.45 pm.  It was a free show where a good number of audience seen attending. Though it was a show of short duration where only songs and small skits were performed yet finally it turned out to be a bit lengthy because of the Housie Game and a documentary film shown during the interval.  The organisers must know that people came there only to see the Musical Show by calculating their time and not to waste it.  Just because priests got more free time that does not mean they should think others are also having free time to spend unnecessarily.  If they cannot adhere timing properly, they should not organize such Shows.  Even in the Churches many priests especially Pe. Vigars waste precious time of the faithful by telling unwanted irrelevant stories. 

 

The major pressure of this Show was shouldered by Tomazinho Cardoso and his smart singer wife Irene.  In fact Irene played a stellar role in beautifully singing all the songs in which she participated. Her voice is very melodious and she sings with ease and confidence as a matured and seasoned singer.  Tomazinho also sang very well. 

 

The other singers who rendered their songs well were Anthony San and youngsters Akash and Queenie Fernandes both of them were Kingfisher award winners.

 

Sheikh Ameer performed beautiful mimicry in which he imitated Narendra Modi, Rajiv Gandhi and Anna Hazare.   

 

Short Skits were also performed in which it was shown how  badly we treat our females and how badly we respect Mahatma Gandhi.

 

This Musical Show is worth watching and there is no Chamchagiri on the part of Tomazinho Cardozo to please the Bharat Serkar.

 

Musical score provided was well yet it was very loud where the words of the singers were shadowed by the loudness of the music. 

 

A. Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim.

THE LATE ANTONETTE DE CALANGUTE.

 

 

"LUTTINI LOKAN BHORON ANI GHOSKOSEANI DUKHAM VANVON", that was the scene for the funeral of Antonette de Calangute on Sunday the 9^{th inst., in the afternoon at Colva Church and Cemetry where she was interred. Antonette hailing from Calangute, as a young school going girl with pretty looks first started acting in the local Tiatros in her village and in surrounding areas as well with much enthusiasm. After creating a dent into the top ladder of the Tiatro where she made a mark for her as a Tiatrist, she met her life partner Bonny Pereira with whom she finally got married. Bonny was my good friend in Kuwait where he was doing a decent job and time permitting was also acting in Dramas. It was Epa de Utorda who first brought him on to the Konkani Stage in his Non-Stop Show at Kuwait Church Hall where Bonny played a lead role and captured the hearts of the audience with his wonderful talent display. He was then a handsome young boy just as Antonette was beautiful young girl.}

As a family to family relationship, her family and our family were very close and she was always treated like a baby by our people especially by my mother and my elder brother. She was a good friend of my younger sister and a colleague to her during her schooling.

Though because of my being abroad I had less opportunities to watch her more in action on the stage yet what I saw her was enough for me to assess her performance and talent. In the history of Tiatro, Andrew was the most talented actor doing female role of tragedy. While doig such roles he was not only making the audience cry but himself also was crying. He was a member of legendary Minguel Rod troupe. Miss Julie another male actor doing female role was also known to perform the role of tragedy. Ophelia Cabral a member of C. Alvares was very good in doing tragedy roles and many of the Tiators of C. Alvares became hit because of her super excellence in performing such roles. Veteran artiste Jessy Dias also remain tall in performing tragedy roles and watching her from close angle doing such roles I can rightly say she is one of the best artistes deserving the title of Ttragedy Queen.

Antonette de Calangute is also known to perform the roles of tragedy where she excelled extremely well. Though she was good in such roles yet she was equally well in other roles as well especially of rich woman with her majestic personality and rich dress code.

In Kuwait she performed many times and at least on 4 occasions she stayed at my place where I noticed the real beauty of her kind heart and greatness in her discipline. At my place many female artistes stayed during their Shows organised by us and Antonette always treated me like her eldelr brother. She was very soft spoken woman and always submissive, never retaliating for any harm done to her and never demanding. Her nature was totally different from many other female artistes. She had calm and cool temparement and her mannerism was excellent.

In her death we lost a very good tiatrist and I lost a good friend.

May her soul rest in peace and may the heavenly God give courage to her husband and sons to bear this big loss.

A. Veronica Fernandes,

Goa.

IN REPLY TO VERONICA'S ARTICLE.

Two beautiful articles last week one after the other by A. Veronica Fernandes in this forum created lot of ripples not only among Goans but also among other nationalities. The first was on Kuwait’s Liberation day function in Panaji and the other on Bastardisation of Managership.

 

 

Regarding the first one, I must admire Veronica to organize such a great function of international standard, his individual efforts in organizing this function is commendable. I was present there for this function and I appreciate Veronica the way he spoke on international topic as this function. Besides Veronica I dont think any one else can handle such subjects.

The presence of a top Kuwaiti for this function coming all the way from Kuwait first time in the history of Kuwait Goans was an important happening. Normally Kuwaitis do not mix up with Indians but with Goans they do and this credit goes to Veronica alone who brought Kuwaitis closer to Goans. And the honouring of Veronica by Mubarak Al Hindal on behalf of Kuwait with a Muffler depicting Kuwaiti Flag and with a Plaque was very deserving.

My only regret was that those Goans who earned so much from Kuwait when they don’t deserve it remained absent from attending this function organized only to show our gratitude to Kuwait. Most of them are Christians and by not attending they showed their ingratitude to the country from where they earned their daily bread. This act of ingratitude is anti-Christian. I cannot imagine how Kuwait Goans have gone to such a low level. By working in Kuwait they accumulated so much of wealth, built Bungalows, acquired properties and married to affluent girls and built their families. This happened only because they happened to be in Kuwait otherwise it would not have been possible. God forgive them for their ingratitude. Ingratitude is common only with third class people and among Kuwait Goans there are plenty of them.  In his own village Candolim and in his own Vaddo Pintos most of the ex Kuwaitkars ignored this meet purely as third class people and they are third class. 

Sadly there was not a single Tiatrist nor a single Padri when both these communities benefitted so much from Kuwaiti Dinars.

Regarding the second one, I fully agree with Veronica who clearly mentioned in this article the harassment the German manager inflicted on poor employees. It was not only in Behbehani but in most of the companies the Managers are harassing the staff. Veronica must write more and more on such topics and send the copies to the Kuwaiti owners. Veronica is the only person who can write on such topics while others like domestic servants only talk.

 

A. Fernandes.