AN OPEN LETTER TO MICHAEL LOBO.

AN OPEN LETTER TO MICHAEL LOBO.

Dear Mike,

As a constituent of your constituency Calanugute that elected you for the second time and now since you are elevated to the ministerial position, I write this letter to you requesting the following.  I know as you personally told me some time back when we met in Candolim for one function, that you are reading everything what I am writing in the media.  Hence, I am certain you will read this letter of mine too and do your level best to get this request approved.

Very shortly as I understand, Goa government will construct a big Complex in Mapusa with a provision for a Tiatro Hall.

I request you to make all your efforts so that this hall is named after the great Goan Bardezkar Tiatrist, the late Alfred Rose  whose greatness as a Tiatrist and singer you know very well as you are a great lover of Tiatros and Tiatrists.  

With  kindest regards,

A.Veronica Fernandes,

Araddy, Candolim,

Bardez Goa.

NAME THE MAPUSA HALL AFTER THE LATE ALFRED ROSE.

In the history of Konkani Tiatros, what the late melodious singer Alfred Rose has done for the promotion and spread of Konkani, very few Tiatrists have done. According to my information, in Mapusa there is going to come up a big complex where the provision is made to have a big hall for the Tiatros. It is going to be the Government of Goa venture.

In the past Mapusa was to stage all the Tiatros where a big number of attendees  used to attend every show at the Narvenkakar's “Mattou”, opposite to the Police Station.  Since the last so many years, in the absence of the big hall with all the provisions and amenities, Mapusa become the dull place for watching the Tiatros in the present hall that lacks so many facilities which otherwise are a must.  Hence, it is imperative now to construct the new Hall at Mapusa which will cater to the needs  not only of Mapusa people but more than that of the people from surrounding places and villages as well.

Since it is certain to come up this hall in Mapusa, I feel befitting to his credentials and also in view of his tremendous contribution in the development of Goan Tiatros and Goan music, the new hall should be named after this genius, the late ALFRED ROSE whose melodious golden voice even attracted innumerable Marathiwadis towards Konkani especially during those turbulent  days immediately following the invasion of  Goa. In fact, the beautifully sweet voiced singer the late ALFRED ROSE attracted many of the Marathiwadi fanatics towards Konkani and  thus increased the number of Konknnivadis that helped us to win the Opinion Poll.    

In view of this, I  request the concerned authorities once again to name this hall after the late ALFRED ROSE who being a proud Bardezcar, carry more weight in this proposal since Mapusa also falls in Bardez and moreover Mapsa is the capital of Bardez.

 A.Veronica Fernandes.

NEW TIATRO "ZADD" BY MICHAEL DINIZ.

Best performance artiste Jessica

Yesterday in Panjim at Kala Academy Hall,  starting exactly at scheduled time 7.30 PM, I saw the most talked and most sought after Tiatro “ZADD” written and directed by Michael Diniz – a new comer it looks but he by staging this Tiatro already outpaced the many of the old comer Playwrights and if I am not mistaken this Tiatro I can rate as one of the best of the Season, at least from what I saw in this season. 

Releasing the Book of Cesar D'Mello seen at extreme left 

In above scene seen are Jessica-Anthony San-Peter 

Seen above is Nerisse Cardoso singing the title song.

Xavier Gomes seen singing his solo

After a long time I saw a fantastic comedy in this Tiatro which was beautifully performed by both the real ace comedian brothers, Prince Jacob and his brother Humbert.  The scene where Humbert plays the role of a fake Priest was very hilarious that produced peals of laughter in the Hall which was packed to capacity.  Along with both the brothers, John D’Silva and Meena Goes  contributed a lot to make the comedy admirable. It was nice to see both the comedian brothers again acting together and thus once again quenching the thirst of the audience of watching the excellent comedy. What they both perform together to the satisfaction of the audience they cant do individually. Hence, to elevate the level of our Tiatros it is imperative that they both reunite as they were earlier and help Konkani Stage to maintain its high level.

Benny de Aldona seen above singing his solo

Seen above Prince Jacob & Humbert performing the hilarious comedy 

Anthony San seen singing his solo

The Side Show songs were all rendered well, rarely in the recent past we saw such a nice Side Show even though Duets, Trios and Quarters were very much missing. These items are a part of Side Show and in the absence of these items the Side Show is not complete.  And if the Side Show is not complete the Tiatro is not complete because full Side Show is the part of Tiatro. Olga’s political solo was worth listening (2 encores), Benny de Aldona’s solo on the difference between new generation and old generation was very beautiful, it was composed very well and more than that it was rendered very beautifully by Benny with his majestic voice, Anthony San’s solo on Pope’s recent visit to Abu Dhabi was very interesting so also of Xavier Gomes’ solo “Mog Utor Devachem”, so too Rosario de Benaulim’s solo.  The title song rendered by Nerisa Cardozo was worth admiring, she sang it too nicely. Besides Ivan rendered his beautiful solo “Soireank Patienakant”, it was well composed with good rhyming and good theme and since I saw him first time on Konkani Stage yet I forsee him  to be perfect artiste.  Cajetan de Sanvordem rendered another beautiful solo with his sweet melodious voice on Pride. The young boy Baba Joshua rendered a beautiful solo with full of confidence on the current  events in Goa (one encore).

Seen in above scene are Roseferns and Jessica. 

Olga is seen here singing her Political song

John D'Silva is presented with a Trophy.

Seen singing his wonderful solo is Baba Joshua

The play was surrounded mainly on seasoned artistes Jessica and Rose Ferns as her second husband with Ivan as their son. The role of the first husband was well done by Anthony San  and the role of first son of first marriage was well performed by Willie and that of a kind hearted priest by Peter de Kakoda. The roles played by pretty looking Cia and Iwan as young lovers was fantastic.  However, the centre of attraction in the whole Play who gained more limelight by performing her role appropriately was beautiful Jessica with her attractive dress code and majestic personality besides her trebulous sweet voice.  The word “ZADD” is used  in figurative sense for  Willie  for him to develop and grow up like a Zadd after his father’s death.

Seen above is Iwan singing his beautiful solo

Peter de Benaulim singing his solo.

Before the start of the Tiatro, the organisers released the new book “Kallo Dhondo” of Ceasar D’Mello thru the hands of Prince Jacob and Roseferns who showered praises on the author and requested the attendees to purchase this book which cost Rs. 200/- This is his 7^th Book earlier he wrote 6 Books.

Seen in above scene are lovely looking Cia, majestic beauty Jessica and the King of centuries Roseferns.

One well wisher from Mapusa Mr. Peter D’Souza presented comedian John D’Silva with a Trophy in admiration of his comedy while another Bom Samaritan presented some cash money to Baba Joshua for his beautiful song which he rendered beautifully. 

It was strange to note that some of the artistes whose photos were indicated that they will participate were not acted. What is this?

Well done Micahel Diniz and his entire troupe including the Band.

A.Veronica Fernandes,