TIATRO "AMCHEM KHUIM CHUKTA...Sodun Kadd".

 

Congratulations to Domnick Fernandes the writer & director  of the Tiatro “AMCHEM KHUIM CHUKTA …Sodun Kadd” which was staged on 14^th of this month at Kala Academy Hall, Panjim, starting right in time at 7.30 PM. Though it was attended by less number of people yet it was well enacted by all the artistes who deserve compliments. It was a sheer pleasure to see some of the greats of yesteryears still acting so very well, namely Titta Pretto, Betty Ferns and Antonette Mendes coming all the way from Bombay especially to participate in this Tiatro along with the Goa based veteran Jessy Dias who played her small role very appropriately. 

 

 

Antonette Mendes seen singing her solo.

 

Antonette Mendes rendered two beautiful solos with her mellifluent voice which was very pleasing to the ears. Her clarity, timing and delivery as usual were excellent and her voice was still evergreen.  Betty Ferns did not lag behind showing all her former attributes afresh. Her stage excellence was still the same not losing much of her former charm and beauty. Titta Pretto though aged yet while performing his role he looked much younger. The current Goa based Tiatrists have to learn many things from the above oldies because they learnt their art from those great directors like J.P.Souzalin, C. Alvares, Prem Kumar and M. Boyer. Even their dress code was appropriate.

 

 

Seen above Wilmix & Sharon singing their duet.

  

The story of the Tiatro is based on our religious activities and the difference between Catholic faith and Believers. Michael Gracias plays an excellent role as Pastor of Believers while on the other side of the fence namely Wilimix, Sharon, Betty Ferns, Titta Pretto and others play their respective roles well. Commedian Neto with his flexible physique and philosophical terminology performed his comedy role very well.  I can easily rate him as one of the best comedians in Goa.

  

Seen above in road scene Titta & Betty.

  

In the Side Show songs, Antonette Mendes, Titta Pretto, Wilmix & Sharon and Neves Oliveira rendered their songs well. 

 

Above seen are Domnick, Betty, Antonette & Jessy.

 

Since the story of the Play is so relevant to the current happenings in our midst because of the blossoming of Believers in Goa and its effect on Catholics, I feel the Goa Church must take an initiative to stage this Tiatro in every Parish in Goa because there is a very good message in it.  This message will be better delivered and easily understood from the Stage than from the Altar and Pulpit. Where our priests failed to give the correct message Tiatrist Domnick Fernandes coming all the way from Kuwait succeeded. He deserves encouragement and  support to spread his Catholic faith message widely all over Goa and Church can do this.

  

Titta Pretto seen rendering his solo.

 

Writer and Director of this Tiatro is based in Kuwait where he is working and time permitting by doing lot of sacrifices he is taking part in activities for the promotion of Konkani, Church activities and Tiatros.  He is a lover of Goan causes. Currently he is vacationing in Goa.  

 

Seen in this picture above at extreme left is chief guest Fr. Conceiao and his two priests colleagues while at extreme right is Domnick Fernandes. 



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

 

WORLD CUP 2014 FINAL.

Finally the final is over and Germany has won the Cup. Congratulations to Germany though Argentina played much better. With this victory Germany created a history by being the first non-South American country to win the World Cup in South America.  To my knowledge, this is the first time since 1986 the W. Cup final has reached to such an interesting and thrilling zenith where every minute till the end was exciting.  No doubt the disciplined and well organized Germans played well but in Argentinians we noticed more beauty and more hard work. Their passing was more accurate, defense was rocky and midfield was perfect in attack as well as in defense.  The current footballers from Goa have to learn a lot from this game and improve themselves even without the guidance of the  coach. By watching this W. Cup our footballers can learn so much especially from South Americans who have shown tremendous improvement.

Brazil deserved highest compliments for successfully organizing this event without any untoward incident inspite of the commotion and chaos preceding the W. Cup.  The way chaotic situation going on in Brazil demanding to stop the holding of the W. Cup tournament, it looked Brazil would have to scrap this event altogether and FIFA would have to shift it somewhere to a safer place just as it did earlier in 1986 when that year’s edition was shifted to Mexico.  However, by the grace of God situation calmed down and the tournament ended peacefully in Brazil itself.   

Golden Gloves award should have gone to Argentinian keeper and not to the German.  So also Messi’s award was not deserving for him. Messi in this tournament contrary to his pre tournament billing turned out to be a mere spectator and more so in the final proving that he is best only at Club level tournaments. The real worth of a best player can be noticed only when he proves himself as best for his national team in stiff competition.  His compatriot Maradona earlier proved himself in his national Jersey to be the best. Hence, to equate Messi with the great Maradona is wrong. Not only  Argentina failed to produce another Maradona after his retirement but even the World has failed. The greatness of a footballer is noticed when he rises to the occasion to produce great game to achieve great result. Maradona did this while Messi failed.

After the end of the final one could easily notice the love of Germans and Argentinians for their respective countries thru the joy expressed by the Germans and thru the tears the Argentinians shed for their loss.  This shows the patriotism and immense love they have for their countries. 

The goal that Germany’s Mario Goetze scored was a fantastic one that totally fooled the keeper under the Argentinian bar. Nicely halting the ball on his chest and lowering it down, he beautifully left footed it to a match winner.  Mario Goetze who a few minutes earlier came from the Bench where he was Benched as unwanted finally turned out to be the savior just as “rejected stone turned out be the corner stone".

In this edition lot of things happened for the first time in the history, namely introduction of goal line technology, use of evaporative spray, additional interval for serving of cold drinks and allowing the friends and family members of the players on the ground after the final.

The VIP stand looked majestic with the presence of Germany’s Merkel, Russia’s Putin in addition to the presidents of Argentina and FIFA.  I still remember how in 1982 edition of W. Cup in Spain the President of Italy Sandro Pertini and  Chancellor of Germany Helmut Smidt attended the final played between the winners Italy and Germany.  During that final I can still recollect how Sandro Pertini was jumping from his VIP Seat after every goal scored by Paolo Rossi’s squad. This shows how the leadership of European nations support their  and teams.

It would have been nice if our Premier Modi has accepted the invitation given to him by the Argentinian president and attended the Final where he would have been exposed to the entire world as our premier.

It is surprising that the record created by Just Fontaine of France in 1958 by scoring 13 goals is still not shattered by any one even though when Fontaine created this record the number of participating teams was only 16 while currently it reached to 32 and yet no player earning millions could shatter this record.

Once again congratulations to Germany for winning the Cup and to Brazil for hosting the tournament successfully.


A. Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim,
Goa.

TIATRIST PAL SOARES & HIS TIATROS.

The above appeared in Goa's well read daily Herald dated 11.07.14.

 

 

This is to refer to the above profile of Tiatro personality,  writer & director Pal Soares, appeared in Herald dated 11th of this month. I fully agree with what is written there of Pal Soares. A few days back I saw his new Tiatro "ATAM THORI MHAKAM SHONDI DHIAT" and as I reviewed it in this forum, I found it much better than all the Tiatros I saw during the last so many months since I returned from Kuwait 5 months back.   The story is good concerning our children going to the West and their future there, the duologs were excellent, the proverbial statements were very philosophical and pleasing to the ears. Every artiste played his or her role well but more credit should go to Annie Quadros, Antush and comedian Betty for nicely shouldering the major pressure of the play.  In Side Show songs, well known political singer Saby De Divar and Benny de Aldona stole the show with their beautiful songs.

 

Though the show was thinly attended by the audience in Panjim  due to many factors yet Pal Soares must not get disappointed because of less crowd.  All the well-known playwrights in the beginning faced this problem and only after undergoing this problem they were accepted by the audience and thus they  reached to the top. It is something great that the audience attended to Pal's Tiatro last week have commented very positively in appreciation of the excellence Pal Soares displayed on the stage.

 

Along with me last week, my friend the Dubai Tiatro organizer Remmy Fernandes also saw Pal's Tiatro and he commented to me saying, "this Tiatro is much better". If things work out well, he may take this Tiatro to Dubai.

 

While concluding, I congratulate Pal Soares for writing such a rich Tiatro and ask him to continue on writing more and more such Tiatros. To elevate the now sagging standard of Tiatros, playwrights like Pal Soares' contribution is a must.  As it is since their demise we are yet to have replacements for M. Boyer, Prem Kumar, Remy J. Colaco, Alfred Rose, C. Alvares, J. P. Souzalin, Alexinho de Candolim, Saib Rocha and Minguel Rod. If am not mistaken their void will never be filled by the current top Playwright Tiatrists who show no originality but "cut and paste" from Hindi Movies. 

 

 

 A. Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim, Goa.

Tel: 7507394349.