While in Kuwait I was
promoting Tiatros along with my other colleagues. Many times we used to bring
Tiatrists from Goa to participate in our Shows in Kuwait and while in Kuwait
they used to stay at my place in Kuwait City.
Among these Tiatrists there were males and females and couples too. There was during one particular time a
Tiatrist couple and as per my knowledge it was a legally wedded couple because
they already had one son. During their
one week stay at my place I gave them all the facilities and treated them with
high respect befitting their marital status. Thinking that they are a married
couple I even gave them one full independent room of my Flat.
Within a few hours of
their going back to Goa, somebody a Tiatrist only told me that they are both unmarried
adulterous couple and giving them a shelter in my house I realized that it was a sinful act. But this
sin I committed without knowing the correct fact. I knew that there are such rackets rampantly
flourishing among Tiatrists and precisely because of this in the past the image
of Tiatrists was affected. Even
currently the image of Tiatrists in general is not very good even though on the
Stage they are adored by the people including the rotten apples. This does not mean that there are no good character
Tiatrists. Some of my best friends are
Tiatrists males and females whose character is excellent and I am proud of
their friendship.
Coming back to the
adulterous Tiatrist couple stayed at my place, with a heavy burden of guilt on
my head, I approached a Priest in Kuwait Church explaining the entire episode
and requested him to bless my Flat with special prayers and Holy Water which he
did. Then only I felt relieved of the guilt burden lying on my head because of
this adulterous Tiatrist couple. For
them it is nothing because their “Khandan” is like that but for me having my
character and discipline it was something unimaginable. What a disgrace is it for a wives deserter
Tiatrist to live with a “Ghanttin” concubine and produce an illegitimate child;
moreover still acting on the Stage and moving in society shamelessly? What good this type of Tiatrists impart to
the audience from the Stage? What role model such Tiatrists will be for the
public? Such artistes are a disgrace on
Tiatros and Tiatrists. It is these sinful Tiatrists who are creating a bad
image of Tiatros and Tiatrists.
Saib Rocha was
boycotted by the decent Tiatrists for keeping a concubine and then the image of
Tiatrists was brightened. Saib Rocha was
such a mighty tiatro figure once, finally died a poor death in the Provedoria
Azilo, unsung and unknown. In the same
manner all the bad character tiatrists should also be boycotted by the decent
directors and tiatrists. By the way, how
many morally upright directors are existing now? I was told that almost every
second or third director is keeping a concubine from his own troupe either by
deserting his own wife or by harassing his wife. One such persecuted wife already confided in
me of her agony.
In order to create a
good image of Tiatrists we must boycott the Tiatrists living an immoral life
otherwise they will create a bad image even of the morally upright Tiatrists,
as it happened in the past.
One of the reasons for
the Portuguese government in Goa to apply censorship for Tiators was to check
the vulgarity and indecency displayed on the Stage by the Vulgar, indecent and
morally bankrupt tiatrists. If vulgarity
is to sop in Tiatros then Censorship will automatically come in.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim, Goa.
Tel:7507394349.
