NEW TIATRO "UNDIR MOGAN PODLA".

TIATRO "UNDIR MOGAN PODLA" BY ROSEFERNS

 

                                                 Olga singing her wonderful solo
                            

Roseferns, one of the heavyweight directors of Konkani Stage,  on Sunday, 5^th of July 2015, staged the first show of his new Tiatro “UNDIR MOGAN PODLA” at Mapusa, starting at 10.30 AM and ending at 2.00 PM.  This was Roseferns 83^rd production and it was well enacted by all the artistes and well scripted as well as well directed by Roseferns who is also called “The King of Centuries & The King of Parables”.  Roseferns currently is a name and fame and since this is the case the Hall was packed to capacity for this Show. 

Xavier - Lawry - Marcos singing their trio 

 

The story was based on the current Goan politics where the title is used figuratively to indicate a Non-Goan Migrant (Undir) who by bribing and by befriending the local cheap and third class Goan politicians,  climbs the ladder of Goan politics till he contests the local Assembly election.  For  the rest one will have to see the Tiatro personally as I desist from giving the full story here since it is going to be staged all over Goa.  But I feel more and more Goans must see this Tiatro that creates an awakening in right direction for the next election.

Roma-Antonette-Olga singing their trio

One thing I can rightly say that thru this Tiatro Roseferns has given a timely warning to Goans to be careful in the coming election since the current political parties and mainly the ruling party, have failed Goa and Goans.  The story is highly political in nature based on current politics in Goa where the Government has taken U turn for all the pre-poll promises.  I think among all the political Tiatros of this season, this Tiatro is the best.

Roma & Tari in one of the scenes

The role played by Anil Pednecar as Migrant was excellent, it was a very good character role he played and I don’t think any other artiste could play such a role with such perfection.  Tari deserves highest compliments for playing a perfect role of a Police Officer first and later on as a politician. I can easily equate him with some of the best of yesteryears.  Antonette de Maina also played her role well opposite to Rosario de Benaulim as his wife but she excelled in the later part while doing her role of a mentally affected wife.  In this role her each and every move was meticulously enacted.  Roma played her role of a blind woman very appropriately.  Rosario de Benaulim did his role of a MLA as per the current required norms.  Though small the role of a priest played by the director was excellent.

Lawry Travasso singing his solo

 

Though comedy failed to infuse the thrills in the hall yet Selvy and his partners did their normal best.  During the last two comedy scenes, it looked drab affair without much life.  However, to the credit of the director and of comedians, there was no vulgarity, neither in words nor in action. In view of this everything and everyone on the Stage looked decent and civilised.  Kudos to the director.

Antonette & Selvy sing their duet

 

In the Side Show songs, everything went on very well as almost all the songs were very good whether solos or duos or duets or trios. Among all the singers, the beauty of Konkani Stage Olga stole the whole show by rendering a beautiful solo based on current Goan politics and politicians.  She carries the credit for being the first female to sing such highly political songs.  She even outpaced her male counterparts in this area.  She got innumerable encores even to the extent of forcing the director to stop the play and to allow her to sing as per the last encore.  When she was singing the whole Hall in unison was vibrating with clapping and whistling.  Such encores never before I saw for any female artiste except for M. Boyer who incidentally falls into male category.  Precisely because of this she was honoured on the stage with a Memento. Her duet with her husband Anil was very good also.  Just like her looks her dress code too was very attractive for this duet.

Olga & Anil singing their duet

 

The other songs that deserve especial mention were the solos of Lawry Travasso, Marcos Vaz and Xavier Gomes; Duet of Selvy with Antonette de Maina; Trios of Xavier-Marcos Vaz-Lawry Travasso and Roma-Antonette de Maina-Olga.

 

Roseferns seen at extreme left

 

Well done Bab Roseferns and your troupe.

 

Olga seen honoured

A.Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim, Goa.

Tel: 7507394349.

 

INDIA ROBBED MY GOA AND PORTUGAL CHEATED GOANS.

By reading my last article on this topic, I am sure the readers have realized what betrayal India committed against Goa by forcibly snatching Goa from us and converting it into a Bharati property.  And worst part of this whole episode was, while signing the treaty of officially surrendering Goa to India, an unelected representative of Portugal Mario Soares in his capacity as Foreign Minister of Portugal sitting in the cosy premises in Delhi in 1974 officially handed Goa over to Portugal as if Goa is a small piece of commodity.  Mario Soares did not even consult the Goans to take their views into consideration, as Portugal did in Macao before surrendering it to China.  Mario Soares did the whole exercise of surrendering Goa officially to India as if Goa was his father’s property.  In this surrendering treaty there was total cheating by Portugal and total betrayal of Goans by the Portuguese government of that time.

In view of this, I feel the current government of Portugal should be made aware of the blunder Portugal did in 1974 for Goa and Goans.  In this direction, the Goa lover Goans settled in Portugal must join together and submit a memorandum to Portuguese government in Lisbon detailing our agony over what wrong Portugal did to Goa and Goans with regards to 1974 treaty and thereby ask the Portuguese government to use its good offices with India to amend the said treaty to give more rights to Goans in Goa.  Portugal is maintaining good relationship with India and hence Portugal can do something for Goans in Goa to protect their rights.  Under Indian sovereignty, India is swallowing Goa.  Under India, indigenous Goans are getting into extinction.  Under Indian supremacy, Goa is getting degoanised thereby losing its culture and tradition.  Under India, Goa is losing its Goan soul.

There are many Goans settled in Portugal and they have great love for their beloved Goa. Very shortly the election in Portugal will be held and the new president will be elected and most probably the candidate for the presidency will be a Goan origin Portuguese from Margao.  These Goans must make this as one of the election issues to put pressure on the next president to think again of Goa and the woes Goans  face under India because Portugal gave Goa to India on silver platter.

Likewise, Goa lover Goans spread in other parts of the globe however small in number they may be, must submit a memorandum to Portuguese government thru the Portuguese Embassies in their respective countries. 

In Goa there is a big number of Goans who think in a similar manner and they must submit a memorandum to Portuguese Consulate in Panjim to convey their grievances to Portuguese government in Lisbon.  In this way we must keep our issue alive and moving before it is totally forgotten.

A.Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim, Goa.

Tel: 7507394349.

 

 

COMEDIANS "BHURXE".

It is almost 125 years since the Tiatro was born with the initiative of Lucasinho Ribeiro from  Assagao, Bardez,  the village known for producing great Goans of great caliber. Though Tiatro was born in Bombay yet it created immense impact on Goan society in Goa.  Tiatro and Tiaitrists of yesteryears took up this profession as a challenge not to make money but to bring about changes in Goan society and precisely because of this challenge Tiatros and Tiatrists of those days by using the platform of Konkani Stage succeeded in reducing immensely the curse of dowry, curse of caste system, inequality in society, arrogance of clergy, maltreatment of Mundkars by the Bhattkars, harassment of women and many other curses inflicted by our elders on  our society.  Without the platform of Tiatros and progressive Tiatrists of those days there would never be such a great improvement and change in our society. Because of this positive effect of Tiatros I salute the yesteryears Tiatrists who have done great sacrifices to keep this art moving and alive.

 

 

The early Tiatros were very educative since the early Tiatrists themselves had good character and home discipline in them by their disciplined parents especially by their mothers but within 25 years of its birth Tiatros went into the hands of wrong Tiatrists who were brought up like rowdies.  They converted Konkani Stage as a platform to wash their dirty linen publicly; many used vulagirty and indecency in their terminology and in action because of which decent people stopped patronising Tiatros.  Seeing all this dirt, Joao Agostinho Fernandes who is known as "Pai Tiatrist" for his great contribution in the promotion of Tiatros,  remarked with tears in his eyes, ”It hurts me very much to see this great art of Tiatro formed by Lucasinho Ribeiro and nurtured by me is now sadly gone into the hands of  " 'ROSTAD' Tiatrists”.

 

 

Sadly now again this beautiful art of Tiatro seems to have gone into the hands of cheap and wrong Tiatrists since some of them are using vulgarity in words and in deeds from the Stage.  Regrettably, the major portion of the audience loves this vulgarity indicating how low they are. I started watching Tiatros by sitting on the lap of my mother and according to my observation the Tiatrists who use indecency and vulgarity on the Stage to get cheap prominence from cheap audience are the ones who lack basic discipline at home from proper parentage, basic educational background and basic social background.  For them the world is like a Pond for the Frogs and precisely because of this they bring a bad name for the Tiatros.

 

Unfortunately the so called big writers and directors are reluctant to control this vulgarity performed by the vulgar Tiatrists in their Tiatros. This vulgarity and indecency is performed by the cheap and vulgar comedians mostly by those who carry the prefix as comedian so and so.  Decent audience call these comedians as Comedians "Burxe" who are responsible for lowering the greatness of Tiatros.  They are so weak that as support for their identity they make use of the prefix as Comedians.  The great comedians of yesteryears namely Jacinto Vaz, Anthony Mendes, Kid Boxer, Jepsis Hitler and Greg never identified themselves cheaply with the prefix as comedians.  The yesteryears comedians were not known to be vulgar nor indecent for this reason people still remember them. 

 

 

Because of the vulgarity in Tiatros people started talking ill of Tiatros now and if this vulgar trend does not stop, decent people will stop patronizing Tiatros as it happened earlier.  Earlier to revive the interest in Tiatros to our luck God sent into this world Tiatrists like Minguel Rod who was a genius in this field and because he was so his Tiatros and songs during those days created a sort of revolution on Konkani Stage. Additionally, to woo better audience to Tiatros we had the gift of J.P. Souzalin, Alexinho de Candolim, C. Alvares, Alfred Rose, Nelson Afonso, Prem Kumar, Chris Perry-Lorna and others too.  But now to uplift the degrading standard of Tiatros we will have none of the stalwarts of the type we had in the past.  They are all dead and gone and sadly now it looks the Goan mothers do not possess the wombs to produce great Tiatrists of the type we had in the past.

 

 

 Hence, it is now in the hands of big names on Konkani Stage to control and eradicate the vulgarity and indecency currently enacted by the vulgar Tiatrists. Display of female Brasiers and Panties is not a decent sign, touching the Aerial of the Radio Set to the private part of the male artiste to get range to start the Radio Set is not a decent act and singing songs with double meaning is surely an act of vulgarity at least as per the Goan tradition.  Most of the current directors are at the mercy of Bhurxe comedians to write and perform comedy which has no link with the main story and for this reason they have to close their eyes to the vulgarity in their Tiatros.  Most of the current directors are not full-fledged writers of their Tiatros in the sense that they write the main story, comedy is given in the hands of comedians having no link with the main story and "Cantos" to someone else.  For this reason scripting of too many cheap or mediocre Tiatros in too short a period is possible.  This was not happening with yesteryears directors for this reason they remained as great. They used to take long period to write and stage a Tiatro with a very good quality.  They were all in one and there was nothing rental or borrowing from other artistes.    

 

 

A. Veronica Fernande,

Candolim, Goa.

Tel:7507394349.