TIATRO "KAZAR.COM" BY PRINCE JACOB.

Jerry Cal sings his solo

Surely one  of the best Tiatros of this season is CAZAR.COM written and directed by the renowned  director and a mighty pillar of Konkani Stage Prince Jacob also an ace comedian who beautified this Tiatro with his beautiful comedy he superbly and very decently performed to the satisfaction of the capacity crowd  at Calangute Church Square at 8.00 pm on 22.4.18. It was organized by the Church under the able leadership of Pe. Vigar Cypriano who is retring from Calanute very shortly.  

Lourdes opening song

As a gift to him for serving the Calangute Church for the last so many years and bringing about lot of development in Calangute, the well known son of the soil Jerry Cal rendered a very beautiful solo composed very beautifully by him only, in showering abundant praises on the Pe. Vigar. From starting till ending of the solo, the audience was totally glued to the mike to enjoy not only each and every word of his song but even a  coma.  Such was the interesting song it was which according to me was the best in this Tiatro.  I appreciate the kind gesture  of Prince Jacob of giving an important opportunity to Jerry Cal to showcase his Stage talent. In fact Jerry Cal having two Konkani Albums to his credit, one is “Calangute” in the form of a CD and the other the  recent one “Ugddas M. Boyeracho” a DVD which are both turned out to be excellent.  

rima and Jacinto in one scene

The musical score provided by the Band Lader Moraes, Mathias and his young son Jr. Mathias, Ancieto and Rohan was really a great thriller.  However, the sound of the Music was so loud that at moment it was rather difficult to listen to the voices expressed on the Stage. However, the director should keep an watchful attention on this defect which proved to be an irritant.

Valency & Jude Gracias another scene

The other  singers excelled in this segment known as “Side Show Songs” were Prince Jacob himself when he rendered a beautiful song along with his vastly improved partner and very good comedian Cedrick Pinto thrilled the audience by dressing like Lamani thereby imitating one of our local politicians whom in this duo put into shame.   The other singers who deserve complments for singing nice and interesting songs were Michael Jude Gracias and Bonny Alvin on the contribution of Goan Christians in the promotion of Goan causes, they bring out in this song how there is a silent genocide on the excellent contribution of the good work Goan Christians have done even by the Priests the Pinto revolutionaries. They also indicate in this highly intellectual song how the Goan crooks and cheats made Dr. Ram Manohar Loia a hero by falsely hoisting him on Goans as shown in his monument erected at Loia Maidan Margao that he was speaking there when he was arrested by the portuguese soldiers. In fact, Dr.Loia was not even allowed to  enter the Maidan since he was arrested 

rima & Prince Jacob a scene

In our freedom movement those Christians who participated were genuine ones to liberate Goa but many others especially from North Goa were those who wanted to convert Goa into a Hindu Raj because they thought the word India comes from the word Hindus and as such India belongs to Hindus only. These idiots they must know that those who first fought for Goa’s independence from the Portuguese were the Christians from Candolim under their revolt “Pintos revolution” which was under the leadership of Priests some of whom were later on arrested by the Portuguese and then Hanged publicly in Panjim.  Even Abade Faria was part of this revolution. Jude Michael Gracias te composer of this high grade song deserve highest complments.

Singing duo Bony & Jude

The other song which was a solo rendered by Agnel de  Dabolim was excellent so too the opening solo of Lourdes. In fact almost all the songs were good including  the two trios one by all the three ladies namely Valency-Rima-Lourdes and the other by Jose and company. 

Another scene

The major part of the play was handled excellently by Valency, recently I noticed her growing into much maturity, her role when she becomes mad was superb, she sings also well with her sweet voice. Jose rendered a nice solo but he excelled very well in a very hard role of a goondda.  In fact he created fear even into  the hearts of audience.

Agnel de Dabolim on his solo

trio song

Congratulations to prince Jacob and Cedrick for dishing out a very decent comedy without any vulgarity. I hope upcoming comedian Cedrik  will never perform vulgar comedy, vulgar comedy is done by ROSTAD COMEDIANS who are a burden on Konkani Stage.

                                                cedrick & Price Jacob


A.Veronica fernandes.a

SORROWFUL FUNERAL OF LATE LOPES BRO.

Seen above are son & daughter and wife of late Lopes

It IS with deep regret and  sorrow that I  got the news of the death of our Kuwait colleague Mr Alex B.  Lopes on 19.04.18 in Rivona Goa with a massive heart attack.  His funeral on 22.4.18 was well attended by the people including by me going all the way from Candolim. A few Goans after seeing me for the funeral in the Church showed their surprise because they felt Candolim is very far from Rivona.  Far or close, there is a saying in Konkani which says “MOG ASLEAR KUIM UNUNDDE GHANTTAR PAVTAT”.  

It was not the long distance from Candolim to Rivona but it is the love and affection and the strong bond that we created during our so many years of stay in Kuwait where we organized our Goan cultural activities and in which you participated without charging us a single Coin.  With his elder brother he performed so well in Konkani stage in Kuwait rendering beautiful and intelligent duos and with his other family members including his beautifully singer sister Agnes and brother-in-law Nazareth, you beautified our Mando festivals and other such programs.  Your efforts in the promotion of Goan cultural programmes will be always remembered by many Goans. 

     

wife of late Lopes

House of Lopes Bros.

Choir seen playing for the Mass

                                          Seen sister Agnes of late Lopes behind her Naareth 

                                               Brass Band

Rivona Church

Choir

                                             Preaching during the Mass

A.Veronica Fernandes.

IS CONGRESS CAPABLE TO CREATE AN UPSET FOR BJP?

“Hit the iron when it is hot” thus  goes one saying. Capitalizing by the Congress on the failure of BJP on all fronts could have magnified the ILL deeds of BJP and exposed the BJP for its failure to give good governace and thereby educate the BJP supporters blaming them for wrongly electing this party to power. It looks BJP has purchased not only Goa but the whole of India to do what they want.  In Goa it looks Goa is BJP father’s property to do what they want and yet go Scot free. It is now such a long time that the God given sickness in the form of a pancreatic cancer as given to understand, to Manohar Parricar is denying Goa the services of a chief minister. In this sickness is there some secrets of God remained hidden? It is an undenying fact that Parricar reached to a very powerful stage from where he could take any decision thereby hurting the sentiments of some or all the people just as Dayananda Bandodcar reached that stage just before his death.

At that particular time Bandodcar was holding the entire Goa on his left palm and playing with it as if it is a toy. He could make or mar anything, he instilled his fear in his opponenents' minds and hearts like hell and in his supporters best of things.  Christians were his targets and because of his anger on them, FOR the hatred he had for the Christian Brahmin Bhattcars who enjoyed better days during the Portuguese era while very many of them were acting like Hitlers and treating their Mundkars like slaves. But God is omnipotent knowing everything and before he could inflict worst of damages against his opponents, God liquidated Bandodcar from this planet and thus saved the likely targets of Bandodcar fury.

Similar situation I see in Parricar now wielding strong power over everything in Goa and may be God realized his wish to do the harm for one segment of society or the entire Goa and just to put an end to his likely harsh action God must have sent on him very bad sickness which is according to some medical experts difficult to cure.

Is Parricar so powerful and so omnipotent among the BJP stalwarts that makes him so important and inevitable?  That he was an idiot was proved when he was unceremoniously stripped of his defense portfolio and sent back to Goa thus putting Goa and its people into shame when Goans otherwise excelled so well in other fields elsewhere in india.  If this man found so defective in Delhi but  suddenly found so inevitable in Goa then the others must be worst idiots in Goa.  IN view of this, can these idiots develop Goa? Do they have the capacity to develop Goa?  Are they sincere to Goa and sincere to their own conscience to  do the development of Goa in a democratic manner? Or in the name of development of Goa and the certain areas of Goa they want to loot Goa’s wealth by acting like Salazar? Did people or voters who got them elected in the last  election give them the mandate to do what people do not want them to do?  How earlier some,  people friendly MLA’s suddenly turned into anti-people friendly MLA’s by ignoring and refusing to admit the reqeusts, feelings and sentiments of the very same people who got them elected and made these MLA’s what they are today?

Take an example of our MLA who when he was elected by the people for the first time he gave a very good impression of him, he bowed his head down in front of the wishes of his voters, he truly identified himself with the masses as a man coming really from the masses and also he identified himself  with the people who got him elected. The masses showed their happiness by saying “amchea modlo eilo mhonttoch to amkam zai tench kortolo”. But did he do what masses wanted him to do?  No. Those voters who voted for him expected him to listen to the voice of his voters but did he listen? Again No.

In the end he forgot who he was and by ignoring the wishes of his  masses and voters he turned himself another Hitleor and thru this Hitlerism he is now imposing his PDA and ODP on people from our villages. While he is acting like a lion in the jungle showing his fury to subdue everyone as if he is omnipotent he dos not recognise his fury is like a toy in front of the mighty power of the real omnipotent who is capable to reprimand him appropriately.  History tells us how those arrogant harassed the people and  finally faced the worst disaster which is not very far.

My question to those people including one of my brothers who canvassed him like slaves for the last election, why they cannot raise their voices in unison now against his "brute dadagiri" of rejecting people's demands? why all his supporters  are silent now?  Can these people trust a man who destroyed Comunidade land to build his personal financial empire and also to dole a part of it to migrants to strengthen his vote bank? Will such politicians develop Goa for the benefit of future generations? 

I hope better sense will prevail before natural calamity comes for those ignoring people[s sentiments.   

A.Veronica Fernandes.