Konkani CD films

Stop! please if you have no knowledge, don't do it. learn a little bit of cinema no need to be a pro. please do not mock whatever is remaining. it's become a fashion to make a film and see 'makers' name on it and count themselves as film makers. 

i'll tell you the plot. 

there are main actors who basically speak north goan and there are few jerks who are south goans. this cannot be reverted as its become a trademark from the ages of dramas. our makers are not creative enough to come up with new ideas. 

lets talk about the latest CD films. 

there is jannet, selvy, agustin, selly, anita, all these so called comedians are having a south goan tongue. i hardly saw them playing a bardez character. they don't have it in them? or our directors are outdated? to get it out from them? viseversa the bardez actors never speak sasti. whats going on?? than there are some songs pushed in between where it looks like they are been shot live. 

well, there is a difference between audio and video shoot. video is not only to show the face of the singer and some backgrounds, you can do lot more with it. just because we are buying, you are not suppose to make anything. 

it's high time to be creative. you don't do what C D'siva did or what M Boyer did. come up with your ideas. watch movies. different language movies. learn the technique. Konkani is not dead yet but your effort of killing it is appreciable. this one from telaulim, that one from tivim, that one from savordem.. ain't we all goan? so keep your village to yourself. 

lets come to the song's. you copy desi tunes, old konkani tunes, hollywood tunes, and dump some stinky music in it. can you do anything of your own? if you are a good composer that doesn't mean you gotta sing your own song. that's not your job if you don't have it in you. there are brilliant singers let them do it for you. keep your nose for yourself.
now you say i have big mouth and you want me to do it if i can. who are you to tell me that?? i buy your shit so don't talk to me like that. improve your work and impress me. there is no censor board for KONKANI Cd films? any body can come out with any thing? as well upload it on you tube rather than selling your trial and error basis work. than you say the budget is not there. with less than what you spend, you can do a class job.

this cheap films make my mind sour to buy the movies from top makers too.

message: please do not spoil whatever is left. let's try and build it.

Reproduced from a post by: Jack Thechla Rodrigues

SACRIFICES OF EXPATRIATES IN KUWAIT.

Do all the expatriates make good money by working in Kuwait? The answer is a big NO. All expatriates are earning money is a sure fact but not all are earning to live a reasonably good life.  Then how all of them send reasonable remittances to their home countries to have a reasonable saving and reasonable standard of living for their dependents back at their home countries?   

As a matter of fact basically Kuwait is a place meant for the poor and economically low level expatriates who by making maximum of sacrifices save their money to their maximum by spending minimum only for their bare necessities. By doing such sacrifices they build their empires back at home to give a decent life for their dependents. The little empires that they build in their countries are big for their standard but surely not as per the Kuwait standard.

Overwhelming majority of expatriates working in Kuwait are single ones whom we call here as bachelors. According to the local standard their average salary is very low to live a decent life.  For this reason they make maximum of sacrifices to survive and save some amount to send back at home.  They stay as pay in guests in small rooms with 3 to 4 other persons where there is no freedom even to cough though it is good for maintaining good health. When you stay like this you have to sacrifice your privacy but pay less and save little more which is abundant for the poor expatriates coming from economically low standard level. 

Besides to save something little more he has to spend less on comfortable traveling, delicious eating, decent dressing and other amenities and requirements for leading a normal life. Hence, by undergoing enormous sacrifices, an expatriate can survive here and save something. However the results of these tremendous sacrifices create very bad effect on their health at the later stage especially at the old age stage.

I know a maid some years back on every Sunday from Fahaheel walking to Ahmadi Church for the weekly Mass covering one hour distance on foot thereby saving half a Dinar her Madame was giving her for transport. Thus she was saving 2 Kuwaiti Dinars a month to send to her home. For her standard these 2 KD were very big amount for her requirement when converted into Indian Rupees. With her very mediocre monthly salary plus the weekly and monthly tips she was getting, she got her two children educated up to graduation with a semi luxurious life and constructed a small but decent house. By seeing these, her neighbours said she was earning a lot in Kuwait but actually she was not earning a lot but sacrificing a lot which she invested in her children education and her house construction. 

The result of her precious sacrifices was such that finally she expired in Kuwait only due to Pneumonia and was buried here in Kuwait only denying her children a last opportunity to cast their glance on their dearest mother. Otherwise Maids and other domestics in Kuwait are worked more and paid less but their sacrifices are tremendous.

Many times when the situation goes out of their hands, many single expatriate ladies to protect their jobs safely and residence permits provided by the locals even has to make sacrifices of their bodies. This is the worst sacrifice females many times have to undergo against their will.  It is not only a sacrifice but it is also a torture.

In Kuwait very few expatriates are drawing 4 figure salaries and to earn the so low salaries they have to make so great sacrifices. The greatest sacrifice they make in Kuwait is the sacrifice of acceptance of humiliation and discrimination they face almost at every level against their wishes and if they are from the third world countries having non-white skin, then they are not treated as full-fledged human beings.  In the eyes of law you are treated here as equal with others but in reality and practically it is not. 

The low treatment some nationalities are getting here is so bad that it looks apartheid still exists not in Rhodesia or South Africa but below our own eyes. Because of this discriminatory treatment one feels he is a sub-human being and if he has to survive he has to accept this type of treatment. To accept such a treatment one has to perform a great sacrifice and many expatriates like dumb Goats are undergoing such a sacrifice for the benefit of their survival in this part of the world. To treat people like this is against the commandment of God.  But some expatriates working here had to bear this lowliness only to earn a mediocre remuneration thereby undergoing the greatest sacrifices.

To run the economy of this country and to develop it, expatriates are doing lot of sacrifices. These sacrifices are of their sweat and blood.  Hence, they should be treated with respect and dignity befitting their human nature. Even if they are wrong they should be treated humanely as human beings and as children of the same God. 

When Kuwait was invaded on 2^nd August 1990 many of these expatriates opposed this invasion by organising protest meetings and rallies in their countries and also by praying to God to help liberate Kuwait. This kind and generous gesture of expatriates cannot be ignored and cannot be forgotten. This was not a paid gesture but spontaneous one for the love of Kuwait and to get justice for Kuwait.

A. Veronica Fernandes, 
Kuwait.

 

REPLY TO "WHERE ARE THEY NOW IN GOA??"

A thousand “Porbim” Bab Veronica for you for writing such a bold and correctly worded article “Where are they now in Goa?”, in goa-kranti dated 24.07.13. Before I never saw you writing such a wonderful article on such an important subject.  During my last so many years of stay in Kuwait I saw our Kuwaitkars what they can do, they are only after cheap publicity with their names mentioned as Presidents, Gen. Secs. and so on.  And those who give such cheap people cheap publicity are also become cheap.  Veronic Bab, there is no journalist in Kuwait like you who can analyse the situation rightly and write correctly.

None of the Goan presidents and other office bearers of Kuwait Goan Associations are capable to motivate and unite people for the Goan cause either in Kuwait or in Goa except you Veronic Bab. If it was not for your intelligence and drive Konkani movement would not have come into existence in Kuwait and in Goa paving the way for the grand finale for the recognition of Konkani. 

If it was not for your initiative Goa-Kuwait Solidarity Centre movement would never come into being.  How greatly beneficial this movement proved to be for Kuwait Goans?

Besides you have immensely promoted the causes of Hotel Goan Heritage at Calangute, Direct Flight Movement, Konkani Martyrs Fund movement,  Novem Goem Movement, Sour ground Kuwait football movement, Release of Kuwait’s POW’s movement and so many other movements.

While doing these movements there were so many so called Goan stalwarts including 4 Millionaires but all remained dormant putting onus on you Veronic Bab to give the lead for all these movements for the cause of Goa. And as a matter of fact if these movements had been initiated by any other Goan, I am sure none would support because besides you Veronic Bab people would not trust any other Goan such as Alex Wilson Coelho who robbed Kuwait Goan Evacuees Fund and demanded sex for job.

There is no Goan in Kuwait who can match with your knowledge, wisdom, drive and leadership.  This is the hard fact one has to accept whether one likes it or not. But facts are facts. Your plus point Veronic Bab is your perfect character of which type none of the well-known  Goans among Kuwaitkars display.

There are so many prominent ex-Kuwaitkars rotting in Goa but none among them show any interest in Goan causes in Goa  Where is A.B. Fernandes gone and why he is hiding from public view? When in Kuwait as GM of Bahar he was shaking Kuwait but now become a cockroach. What Alexandre Fernades ex president of Colva Kuwait doing now in Goa? Hiding under the petticoat of his wife? In Kuwait he was making a big show but now in Colva sleeping. Where is Alex Wilson Coelho now?  In Kuwait he was acting like Sarpanch but now no news.  May be thinking on new strategy to rob Goan Welfare Society’s funds as he did earlier of Kuwait Goan Evacuees Society fund. 

IDENTITY WITHELD ON REQUEST.