Konkani Show in Kuwait - Konkan Talents Kuwait.
On their 5th anniversary, KONKAN TALENTS KUWAIT organized their Konkani
entertainment programme DARBAR 2006 on Friday 28th April 2006 at
Hawally A/C Hall, starting at 5.15 p.m. The show consisted of songs, comedy
jokes and skit besides dance performances. Out of three dance items, the
one choreographed by Kiran Sequeira and Rakesh Martis with the background
Mangalorean Konkani song Juliana deserves highest praises. It was very much
liked by the entire audience and fabulously applauded. For the other two
similar items, the background music was from Hindi Films. Amongst the
songs, the solo rendered by Joyline Gonsalves deserves compliments as she
rendered it with full clarity and confidence which many other artistes
lacked. Ivan Sequeira one of the visiting artistes coming from Mangalore
and who was introduced to Konkani Stage by Wilfy Remimbus rendered his songs
with mellifluent voice but much of the contents of his songs were failed to
reach greater part of the audience due to faulty Mike system. Because of the
defective Mike system, many of the songs were not clearly understood and
hence they lost their charm before they could reach the ears of the
audience. Jokes were performed by Me-Mo-Ri coming from Dubai while excellent
compeer from Dubai Manohar Pais did excellent justice to his job. To make
this show more entertaining artistes from Dubai & Mangalore were brought
including the Lead Guitarist Alwyn Fernandes who has the unique distinction
of being the first Mangalorean to play in the Hindi Films. Besides him the
musical score was also provided by the well known musicians Monawar who
mesmerized the audience by playing Tabla, Dalak and Tumba, Roney on
Electronics Drums, Jackson Base Guitar, Joyson and Melwyn on Key Boards.
Though the musicians played well yet the music that they played was not
meant for such shows because for our shows people likes to listen carefully
to the words of the songs. The loud and hi - fi music played that day was
meant for ballroom dance, it created lot of disturbance in the hall for the
audience ears. The surprise of the whole show was the dance performed on
Hindi Film Tune by a 4 year old girl Baby Wanesa Pinto. Lawry Pinto as an
incharge of the organizing committee welcomed the gathering and thanked
everyone for cooperating with the organisers to stage this show. As I have
been watching him from close angle, he is always encouraging for the Konkani
cause. The Skit "Aang Bizlear Masli Melta" was performed well by John
Suratkal and the troupe. As a whole the show was not too good, it lacked
many of the attributes to make it admirable. It would have been nice if any
of the prominent Goan stage artistes had been inducted in this show as Goans
does for Mangaloreans and in this case it would be a nice integration of
Konkani people. After all is it not a show of Konkan Talents Kuwait?
Konkan talents is not inhabited amongst Mangaloreans only, it is spread all
over Konkani region including Goa.
During this show, two Konknni promoters from Dubai were felicitated, one
Eddie Netto from Daiji Dubai and the other Walter Nandalike Editor in
chief of Daijiworld.com. Fr. Melwyn The newly crowned Pe. Vigar of Kuwait
Church was also felicitated by the organizers for completing 10 years of his
priesthood.
During the interval, I had an opportunity to exchange few words with Walter
Nandalike who with his Daiji campaign along with Eddie Netto is spreading
the message of Konkani. They are doing this only thru Kannada Script Konkani
and as such they are concentrating into only one pocket of Konkani that is
of Mangaloreans. When I questioned Walter of his opinion on the on going
controversy between Romi and Nagri script Konknni in Goa, he admitted that
Romi should be given due recognition. When I further asked why you are
deserting Romi Konknni in your campaign? Arent Romivadis your Daijis? He
had no clear answer. Even in Kuwait Church Romi Konkani is very much
slashed from the liturgical readings and this was seen more strategically
when our Kuwait Church was PeVigarised under Fr. Melwyn. If this trend goes
on unarrested, Roman script Konkani Catholics will suffer a lot from the
Konkani scriptic apartheid as it is practiced now. Earlier Catholics were
inconvenienced due to the Sancristianisation of the Church though the effect
of it is becoming less now but arrogance of PeVigarisation is becoming more
visible and in the matter of language discrimination it is seen the most.
According to me in our Church both the Konkani scripts should move
parallelly without any discrimination seen or done. Roman script Konkani
Catholics are the early Catholics in Kuwait and they have served the Church
very well before the arrival of tin pot discriminators whose hatred and
arrogance towards others is not good. No doubt Konkani does not belong to
Romivadis only but neither it is the monopoly of non-Roman script promoters
and followers. And as a matter of interest, what Roman script Konkani
Catholics have done for the cause of Konkani as a whole and for Kuwait
Church in particular none others have done. Even the Goan Carmelites in Goa
and elsewhere have contributed in this.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
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