TIATRO GHOR BHANDLEM GHORABO MODDLO
As announced earlier, Kuwait Goan Association has successfully staged its
Tiatro Ghor Bhandlem Ghorabo Ghoddlo written and directed by the well
known playwright and songster Rosary Ferns. Contrary to 3.30, this Tiatro
was started at 4.05 p.m. and was very well attended by the audience; in fact
rarely so many people attended a Tiatro in such a big number. Very many
amongst the audience were even seen standing. The story of the Tiatro is
based on the family life of a couple. Husband working in Kuwait and wife is
kept in Goa, husband interest revolves around making money and more money
while wife is neglected in Goa without husbands love and closeness. While
wife in Goa craves for husbands love to have a child and establish a home,
husband on the other hand is interested in building a big palatial house.
Finally wife gets fed up of husbands lingering in Kuwait for a long time in
devotion to money making and falls in love with a friend of her husband and
ultimately divorces her husband. There is lot of lesson for Gulfies to
learn from this Tiatro. It was a living example of Gulf incidents.
The artistes who played very good roles in this Tiatro were Ophelia doing
the role of a mother, Sylverster Vas of a Kuwaitkar, Antonette de Calangute
as his wife and Xavier Furtado as her paramour and of course Babli as
daughter of Ophelia and Simon Gonsalves as her husband. Margareth DCruz and
Clara Rod though both being recent inductions onto the big Konkani Stage yet
both of them have grown into maturity especially the former who performed
her role as a social worker very well. Querobina Carvalhos role as nun from
Mother Theresas mission was well appreciated. In comedy roles, visiting
comedian John DSilva produced peals of laughter in the hall by doing
hilarious comedy along with local comedian Philip. The way people were
laughing in the hall one could easily deduce that John DSilvas comedy was
well appreciated by the audience as never before in any of the earlier
Tiatros of Rosary Ferns. His comedy audience found fresh and not repeated
from the last show in Kuwait. His one comedy on recital of small and big ABC
instantly became talk of the town. He was well supported in his performance
by the local comedian Philip. As a matter of information John DSilva was
one of the Goa based Tiatrists who went to Herald Office sometime back in
Panaji to lodge a protest against my article Rostad Tiatrist along with
Prince Jacob and others to teach me a good lesson. Unfortunately, none of
them could create any effect on me. On the contrary some of them came to me
shamelessly for their own promotion.
In the side show songs William de Curtorim as usual stole the show in his
political songs and this was evidenced from the encore he received. Nobody
amongst the singers got such a warm applauding as he did and that shows how
much his songs are liked by the overwhelming majority of the audience. His
political songs were bold and dashing, in one of his solos he called the
politician as Chor, Churchill receiving bribes as MP, Luizin another Chor
depositing his ill-gotten money in Swiss Bank and so many other things. He
even called them as Ran Dukor. Listening to these statements one of the
Navelkars in Kuwait vowed to detain William in Kuwait as if he is the
representative of Interior Ministry and accused the organizers of allowing
William to sing song against Luizin. When William got this news, William
vowed to disgrace this Kuwait Navelkar in one of his songs in Goa, part of
the song he has already composed as per the information, where he states
Navelkarani, samballat tumchea Kuwaitchea Kolvontak All the three solos
of William were fabulously applauded by the audience. William also fired a
salvo against a tiatrist who created a discord amongst tiatrists in Kuwait
by using the commandment To aslear aum nachona. According to few William
is a controversial singer but according to overwhelming majority he is very
much in demand in Kuwait and that he is in demand in Kuwait was testified by
the encore he received. The other songs which were well received by the
audience were the duets of Sanny de Quepem & Antonette de Calangute and
Rosary Ferns & Babli. Both the solos smartly rendered by Babli were well
received by the audience. Osvi Viegas rendered 2 solos and one duet with
Antonette. Besides, Marcus Vas and his trio with Sylvester and Laurente,
John DSilva and Bab Agnelo also rendered their songs.
Writer and director of this Tiatro Rosary Ferns when he introduced Ophelia
to the audience there was nothing but tremendous applauding in the hall,
nothing but tears in the eyes of Ophelia, also leading tears into the eyes
of many amongst the audience. The 50 seconds standing ovation Ophelia got
from the audience was unique in the history of Tiatro in Kuwait. Seeing
this sort of adoration for herself Ophelia did nothing but sobbed and sobbed
continuously uttering her statement again and again as Argam Devak Argam
Jesuk. She could not imagine such a mighty welcome was in store for her in
Kuwait amongst the Goans and Konkani people. She was overwhelmed by the
tremendous love and affection showered on her by the Kuwait Goans for which
she expressed her thanks to God and to everyone. It was a rare occasion to
see Ophelia crying so uncontrollably, a queen of Konkani stage of
yesteryears who decorated Konkani Stage for over 4 decades and still going
strong in her acting at this ripe age.
Because of the wide coverage visiting tiatrists get in the media some of the
local tiatrists showed their dissatisfaction. One must be bold enough to
admit the fact that it is the visiting tiatrists who brighten the image of
the tiatro staged in Kuwait by the local tiatrists and because of this
visiting tiatrists are encouraged more. They are a good marketable
commodity, for this reason their photos and names are highlighted in bold
capital letters in the local media. I doubt without visiting Tiatrist locals
can achieve any major success in Kuwait.
According to the organizers, they were very happy with all the visiting
artistes because none of them gave any inconvenience to the organizers
namely none of the visiting artistes left for Airport soon after the Tiatro
by hurriedly doing his/her part; all left for home after 2 3 days. None
of the artistes put the organizers into unnecessary expenditure. All the
visiting artistes remained disciplined and not the way some of the others
have done earlier with an attitude mellta taka kator ani apleachem
sadoi
Musical score for this Tiatro was provided by Dennis and his group and first
time in Kuwait since his arrival a few months back, the son of Konkani
novelist Bonaventure De Pietro, Rabindra Pietro played an organ for this
Tiatro and excelled well. He is a good solfist unlike many others in
Kuwait.
One nuisance very many in the audience could not accept was the tardy and
delayfull programme conducted during the interval. This type of time
consuming programme including Housie Game should be reduced not to make the
audience boring. Audience come to see Tiatro and nothing else.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
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