TIATRO - NOURO.

 

On Sunday, 11^th of this month, starting at 10.30 AM,  I watched the new Tiatro “NOURO” staged at Hanuman Theater Hall, Mapusa, by Peter Roshan. It was nice to see this Tiatro starting exactly in time but it was thinly attended by the audience, of course unexpectedly.

Though the story in the  beginning is not very encouraging yet the last part especially the ending scene was very interesting revolving around Biblical term of forgiveness for the Nouro for his earlier mistake towards his first fiancée whose role was played by Roshan.

 

One of the scenes

 

 

Roshan’s role as a blind was more or less similar to the role played earlier in late sixties by the great Ophelia Cabral in genius C. Alvares’ excellent Tiatro “Kedna Udetelo To Dis” where C. Alvares was at his best with excellent script, excellent direction and excellent depiction.  For this reason Tiatro audience is still remembering C. Alvares and his excellent cast. Many of the current directors though they try to plagarise C. Alvares yet they remain very far from him. For this reason C. Alvares remained unique. He knew whom to entrust what role and at his disposal he had all the best artistes, such artistes are not in existence now. He knew what dress code an artiste to use for certain roles and precisely because of this Ophelia gained great limelight in her role as “Kuddem Anita” in his most memorable Tiatro “Kedna Udetolo To Dis”.  C. Alvares was a perfect and seasoned director. Today’s directors cannot emulate him, either in script or in direction.

 

Peter - Roshan singing a duet 

 

It is a pity that today we don’t have great script writers and directors for this reason this Tiatro art is gone into the hands of tin - pot writers and directors whose only motto is to gain commercial benefit.  For this reason without proper home work and research many of the present day directors come out with new – new Tiatros in new – new seasons. And by the way, how many among the present directors are real script writers?

Roshan & Clara sing on Antonette de Calangute

The Tiatro “Nouro” lacked serenity normally associated with the traditional Tiatro, it was more of chaotic where unnecessary screaming played a major role because of which it sounded disturbing to the ears and hence tasteless. The Band consisting of 6 instruments also played very loud music thereby preventing some in the audience to lose the track of the words rendered by the singers. The musical feeling played during the play was disturbing. The comedy part was handled by comedian Brian and his partner. It was nice to see him back on the Stage after his accident. May God help him to recover completely without any defect.

The Side Show songs failed to elevate the level of this Tiatro though one song on the late Antonette de Calangute rendered by Roshan and veteran Clara was superb and it is worth listening. Both the solos rendered by youngster Brandon were good, incidentally he is the son of Peter – Roshan. The political duet rendered by Peter and Roshan on election and Parrikar was beautiful.     

 A.    Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim,

Goa.

Tel: 7507394349.

CONDEMNING ABDUCTION OF SCHOOL GIRLS.

It is really disgusting to see the 200 + school children abducted by the Boro Islamist group in Nigeria are still not released even after 3 weeks. The Pope at Vatican has already indicated his concern, so also some Western leaders including President Obama and just 2 days back Mrs. Obama expressed her motherly sentiments and while condemning this incident pleaded for the release of these innocent students.

Islam is a great religion of justice and compassion but those Islamists who abducted the students in Nigeria are doing a great disservice to the Islamic doctrine of justice and compassion by doing injustice to these students and not showing compassion at this hour to them.

By abducting these students the Boro Islamist group is creating a very bad image of Islam thereby giving an opportunity to the enemies of Islam to create a distorted image of it.  If today the enemies of Islam are harping against Islam, it is only because of the Boro type of Islamists who are creating a bad image of this great religion.  The real enemies of Islam are not Jews as Muslims believe but  these Boro type of Islamists who instead of brightening the image of Islam are blackening it by taking young students as hostage. Islam does not say to commit such horrible acts in its name.  Such acts are forbidden in Islam and on top of it this Boro group is functioning in the name of Islam. Shame on them for putting the genuine Muslims into a shame.

Abducting the students is one sin but on top of it threatening to sell them to the terrorists is the worst sin. Are these students commodities to sell them in the market of terrorists? Are these abductors heartless people? Don’t they have children for them?   Why they don’t show compassion as indicated in Islam and release these students? Even Prophet Mohammed showed compassion to the captured Jewish soldiers and commanded to release them without doing any bodily harm to them.

It is surprising to note that there is not much campaign in the Islamic world for the release of these students. It looks the top Muslim leaders are silently watching this incident instead of condemning it and demanding immediate release of these young girls. Where Muslim world remained silent, Christian world under its Christian leaders made awakening by taking concrete steps to fight for justice for these young students. After all Justice is the central idea of Islam and ironically Christians are fighting for this Justice even though the central idea of Christianity is Love.

 

A.    Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim,
Goa.
Tel:7507394349.

 

SALA BANCHOT CULTURE.

After my interaction with different communities and nationalities, my conclusion is that we Goan community is the best culturally, traditionally and historically though due to the swallowing of Goa by Bharat in December 1961 Goa is changed a lot.  This change came because of the influx of non-Goans from Bharat into our Goa with their harsh and dirty cultural, traditional and historical habits.  This foreign culture is called “SALA BANCHOT” culture implanted on Goa on the very first day when uninvited Bharati troops without consulting us ousted Portuguese from Goa.  The first Bharatis who entered Goa came by uttering all the vulgar and rough words and harsh statements, main being “Sala Banchot”. When those Bharatis uttered this statement it created a chilling effect and negative energy all around Goa.

The early Bharati teachers in the post December 1961 period who came to Goa as teachers in English schools from other parts of Bharat brought this Sala Banchot culture in Goa and passed it on to Goan students.  When Fr. Mendonca the then principal of Arpora School noticed this from one Malyali Hindi teacher in 1963, he terminated his service and said Arpora school should not recruit any such teachers because they are spoiling our Goan students who are culturally very rich. Moreover, said Fr. Mendonca the accent of Malyalis being unEnglish our Goan students get confused to follow their teaching. If you carefully observe the discipline and character of the Goans born and brought up after 1961 December, you will see them having lot of vulgar and harsh Bharati habits which are foreign to Goa.

A few days back a small Goan boy who was a student of primary school while discussing something with his colleague when they were going to school, without any shame loudly uttered a  statement saying “You Sala Banchot”. This Goan boy is studying in the same school where “Ghantti” students outnumber Goans because in that locality there reside many Ghanttis and they enrolled their children in the Church run school in that locality.  These Ghantti students by virtue of being Ghanttis are known for their bad habits and rough terminology which our Goan students also learn and acquire from them to use as routine thereby prostituting decent Goan culture.

It is a pity that our children are become victims of the bad habits of Ghanttis.  Culturally compared to Goans, Ghanttis are very backward but unfortunately by acquiring their bad habits our Goan children also become bad and for this reason the Goan generation developed after the exit of Portuguese from Goa are totally different in character from those Goans developed earlier. 

Even many of the priests born and brought up after December 1961 are harsh and corrupt compared to those of earlier period.  Because they are so, they misuse their priestly facilities by indulging themselves in corruption and many times vomiting Serpentine venom from the Altar as if the holy Altar is the kingdom of Satan. They are Satanic priests.

Many of the Goan parents of school going children where Ghantti students are also studying,  are in a rude shock to see their children  acquiring all the bad habits of Ghantti children and a few of the parent  are even thinking to remove their children from the present schools and enroll them elsewhere.  But where else they will find Ghantti – free schools  in Goa?  Almost all the schools in the villages are filled with Ghantti children and their money power is greater than that of Goans. Not only Goan schools are filled with Ghantti students but also Goa is filled with Ghanttis.  Not only this, even the air Goans inhale in Goa is filled with Ghantti smell.  Goa is Ghantti-ised with a SALA BANCHOT CULTURE.

A.     Veronica Fernandes,

                                    Candolim,
                                        Goa.