TIATRO "MAFI MAGTAM" BY COM. DOMNICK.

Chitra seen singing her solo on Maestro Juzinho

Yesterday in Panjim at Kala Academy Hall, at 3.40 PM, I saw the new Tiatro ‘MAFI MAGTAM” written and directed by Comedian Domnick.  Though the hall was not fully filled yet it was a good attendance that enjoyed this Tiatro from the beginning till end.  I can rightly say it is one of the best Tiatros of this season and every artiste performed his and her role appropriately well and the credit for this surely goes to the director.  However, I can’t resist the temptation of highlighting the superb roles played by the two artistes to attain total success for this Tiatro and they  are Eliterio D’Costa playing the role of the husband and father of the young girl and Chitra playing the role of the grand mother.  This is the first time I see her performing such a role and she did it extremely well displaying all the attributes and qualities ingrained in the typical Goan Grandmother.

Sonali Naik sings her solo

The story is woven around one young girl – Sonali Naik – who craves for her real mother and who leaving her young daughter, gets married second time after obtaining Divorce.  Since the Tiatro is going on all over Goa, I refrain from disclosing the full details of the story and suggest to watch this Tiatro.

Seen above are Ellias and Precilla in one scene

The comedy part was nicely handled by both the Comedian brothers Director Domnick and Luis Bachan  with an added association of young comedian girl Cassey Travasso  who indicates lot of confidence in her acting.

Seen above Com.  Cassey to the left.

Among the Side Show songs, especial mention must be made to the excellent solo rendered by Chitra in praise of Maestro Juzinho who is bed ridden now and who was an ace musician performing for so many Tiatros.  It was a fitting tribute to his excellent work he did in musical field. So also Saby Divar, Lesly and Ellias performed well in their songs.  The duets rendered by Chitra & Allias and Precilla & Xavier de Maina were worth admiring.

Seen above in another scene are Ellias & Chitra 

 Congratulations to Comedian Domnick and his troupe for this nice Tiatro.

Seen above is the husband and wife duet Prescilla & Xavier

A.Veronica Fernandes.

            

ELECTION & THREAT OF COMMUNALISM.

The greatest threat for us Christians now is Communalism whose promoters are all out to liquidate the minorities especially the Christians from this soil. In my land Goa the seed of communal virus was implanted on 18^th December 1961 itself when  the Portuguese Flag was still  flying in Panjim.   The idea to merge Goa with Maharastra was to liquidate the influence of the Christians.  The same tendency is carried forward now more forcefully with the backing of the RSS, the whole and sole of the BJP, that recently said, “by 2021 every Indian must be converted to Hindu Religion otherwise “Get Out from this land”.  And go where?  Is this land your fathers’ property to have your monopoly over it? 

My ancestors were living on this land much before  Portuguese, Christianity, Islam and Hinduism as religion came into being in this land. We the Christians are as strong citizens of our land as any citizen of this land belonging to Hinduism or any other religion. We came not from Portugal but Portuguese came to our land from Portugal and let it be known to fanatic communal Hindus that it was a Hindu leader who begged with Portuguese to come to Goan land to protect and save Hindus.  According to our family records, our ancestors  voluntarily got converted to Catholicsm without any outside forced influence nor with any inducement.  Our ancestors were very happy when Christianity came to our land with equality for all. This type of freedom and equality especially in the Hindu community then were denied to some segments of the Hindu society.  Why then, it is still existing even now. Our ancestors embraced Christianity with love for Christian principles and Christ’s teachings of love for fellow human beings while very many embraced Christianity as a mark of protest and revolt against discriminatory Hinduism.

 

The present BJP government is harping on the little development it made especially the Road building where the concerned MLA’s and Ministers got their commissions and thru this type of commission they have built their assets to crores of rupees as indicated in their recent declaration  on the election contesting forms.  Otherwise, how  is it possible for any Ladru-Shambu type of person to create such a mighty financial empire? Only such corrupt politicians can built their financial empires thru illicit money.  The development they boast of is not the real development, decorating of the Roads is not the real development,  creating employment avenues to our unemployed youth is the real development, providing government services uninterrupted to the citizens is the real development and providing normal facilities and life security to the minorities to live a fearless life will be the real development.  

Today minority communities in Goa are living in fear, the existence of the schools of Christians is harassed with the threat of withdrawal of government grants as if this money belonged to the government.  These schools serve all the communities and not only Christians though they are built by the Chrisitians only.  There is hidden agenda to uproot the Chrisitians from this land by using different dirty tactics. It is the duty of every citizen of this land to assure security to the threatened religious minorities, especially Christians in Goa in particular..

The current BJP government is supported by some Christian MLA’s with whose support the BJP government harms the interest of minorities especially of Christians but none of the Chrtistian MLA’s raises his voice against this.  They are like Judases ready to sell their Rabbi again for 30 Coins because they are power and money hungry.  Navelkars and Aldonkars must question their MLA’s with whose permission they aligned with the BJP government.  Again this time they must get an undertaking from them that they if elected will not align with the BJP. So too other Independents.  The others who are contesting the election in the name of BJP must be warned of this danger when they come to ask for your votes. It must be accepted that voting such candidates is not only a small sin but a big sacrilege for which there will not be any forgiveness.  Hence, will it be right to  elect them again? Unless we want to dig our own graves.

A.Veronica Fernandes.                

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TIATRO "MEULELEM NAKA SANDLELEM ZAI".

Antonette de Maina sings her solo

Today morning at 10.40 in Panjim at Kala Academy. I saw the new Tiatro “MEULELEM NAKA SANDLELEM ZAI” written and directed by Samuel Carvalho. It was a well attended Show which is based on our Konkani proverb “RANDLOLEM NAKA PUN SANDLOLEM ZAI” where Dolla, Mario Menezes, Semenca and Philip Almeida played their roles very well.   Hoewever Dolla’s role was super as a rich divorced mother of one son.  She looked majestic in her majestic costumes.

Semenca & Philip Almeida in a scene

Saby de Divar sings his political solo

It is a family story woven around the subject where the young girl refuses a nice proposal and opts for love marriage where before getting married the boy leaves her.  The role of the boy was beautifully played by handsome and youthful Philip Almeida while the role of his poor girlfriend was played appropriately by lovely looking attractive Semenca. A superb role of the father was played by Mario Menezes.

Semenca & Dola sing their song

A scene

The comedy part was handled by Comedians Jannet, Agostinho Temudo, Selvv, Richard and Ambe.  Agostinho was at his best especially in his sarcastically witty comments on Goan politicians, more piercingly on Luizinho Faleiro for his lust for power.   

Reagan sings his solo

Another scene

In the Side Show songs, the songs rendered by Saby de Divar, Reagan, Benny de Aldona, Dolla & Semenca, Antonette de Maina were worth listening. The duet Reagan rendered with Semenca was the most precious among all.

Seen above is lovely Dola

Com. Jannet sings her solo

                                                             Last scene

Norman Cardozo provided an excellent musical score.

A.Veronica Fernandes.