It was an excellent
maiden display of the Tiatro “INTERVIEW”
by Saby de Divar. Yesterday I saw
it at Kala Academy Panjim at 7.30 PM attended by the full house of the
attendees and all came out filled with joy for having witnessed something
excellent story wise as well as Side-Show wise.
This was his first Tiatro and that too gone so well it shows the
greatness of this young director Saby from Divar an ex Tarvotti who gave up his
lucrative job at “Tarvar” eight years back to devote his life and time for
Tiatro profession and devotion too.
Very few directors in
the history of Tiatro came out with
flying colours in the first try itself as Saby de Divar did. Even the gigantic directors failed in their
first try but not Saby de Divar. In the
history of Tiatro mighty directors like Minguel Rod, Alexinho de Candolim and
Nelson Afonso received total success in their very first Tiatro itself and it
gives me pride to include Saby de Divar in their bracket. This is due to the
good Tiatro and good acceptance of the director by the Tiatro goers.
Currently Saby de Divar
is a mighty force on the Konkani Stage as a political singer though he sings
well also on other social topics. His
songs are well accepted by the audience just as his first Tiatro Interview. His
political songs rattled the minds and hearts of many of the corrupt
politicians. The themes of his songs are
meaningful and research on his topics is done well to hit the nails
appropriately. Rightly he hits the iron
when it is hot. His voice is attractive and presentation on the Stage is
appropriate and being a young man he attracts more attention. And as per my information character wise his
standard is high having upright morality.
Anil and Olga singing their duet
The story of the Tiatro
is not related to any job interview as it looked but it relates figuratively to
the account of our life in front of God
before entering the gate of Heaven. In
between there are many incidents that attract the attention of the audience and
all these one has to see by oneself by seeing this Tiatro which is going on
full house now all over Goa.
Very many of the
artistes males and females are new in this Tiatro entering the Konkani Stage
for the first time yet they performed well. The director in this aspect played his inning well by coaching them
well. All the artistes played their roles
well but especial mention must be made to Anil Pednekar for his excellent role
of the father opposite to Dola as his wife.
Juju and Carmen also played their roles well as husband and wife. However,
lack of Cantos for every “Poddo” created a bit of a void.
Seen above are all the comedians
Comedy part was nicely
handled fabulously by all the comedians namely Sally, Neto, Humbert and Ambe
who all created peals of laughter in the hall.
Yet Neto and Ambe were at their best.
The Side-Show part was at
its best as all the songs were meaningful and rendered also well. The political songs rendered by Saby de Divar
and Olga and also by Benny de Aldona were the excellent ones. These songs were the best so far in this
season according to my observation. Olga
remained unbeatable. Besides the solos rendered by Juju and Reagan were
meaningful.
Trio song: Saby-Benny-Sally
These days there is a
war going on in Konkani Stage, war of “Zupattis”. It looks like the period 25 years after the
inception of Tiatro in Bombay reappeared when Pai Tiatrist was found crying at Cross Maidan in Bombay for seeing
some Tiatrists singing piercing Zupattis to each other and thereby lowering the status
of Tiatro. In this context Pai Tiatrist,
Joa Agostinho Fernandes made a remark as “Rostad Tiatrists” referring to those
Zupatti singing Tiatrists. Henceforth, this has to stop because we have to
challenge the government machinery of playing dirty in Goa, for this the unity
of Tiatrists is imperative to fight the common enemy.
Last scene of the Tiatro
Secondly, “To aslear Aum
Na” politics should be stopped immediately unless those who put this condition
has to face the wrath of God and severe punishment from the Nature. They must know that “Devachea Marank Avaz Na”. We have seen in the recent past how those who
used this condition of “To or Tem aslear
aum na” have suffered and one in Kuwait is still suffering. May God forgive him and bring him back once
again on the Stage as a refined artiste.
Saby de Divar singing his solo
Finally let me make an important
statement here saying “Every political singer is best in his/her own way having
his/her uniqueness which is appreciated by the audience. In view of this, every political singer is
the best in his own way. Two years back when Google interviewed me
telephonically from Bangalore asking me who is the best political singer among
the Tiatrists in Goa, I said “Kid Boxer”.
When further questioned why? I
replied saying that Kid Boxer rendered songs against the then mighty Indian
government system and because of this he suffered the
worst as none of the current political singers suffered.
Coming back to the Tiatro “Interview”, from
what I have seen in this season, this Tiatro is the best. Hence I congratulate the director and his
entire troupe.
A.Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim, Goa.
Tel:7507394349.
