Roddum-ia Kumpasar By *Dr. Francisco Colaco, Margao* | 13 Jan, 2015,
Nachom-ia Kumpasar ('Let's dance to the rhythm') takes everyone through a nostalgic journey that brings forth the life and achievements of many Goan singers and musicians who remained unrecognized, unsung and unappreciated throughout their life and even after their death. With sold-out crowds and rave reviews it has won the hearts of Goans. But, let’s not make a mistake, “it is a Konkani film based on the lives of two jazz musicians, Chris Perry and Lorna”. People have been so enthralled with the movie that they have watched it for the second or third time. Have I seen the movie? No. I was too close to the Chris Perry family in the last decades of Chris’s life that anything that brings to my mind even distantly reminiscences of a “broken” home sends shivers down my spine. It’s an oft-repeated phrase uttered with alacrity, “Lorna has forgiven Chris”. But permit me to ask politely, “Has Lorna forgiven herself?” In Chris’s household in Mumbai, besides him, there was Lily, his true and devoted wife, faithful at all times, no matter what; and four innocent children in the growing period whose upbringing was severely traumatic, to say the least. Only someone, who like me, sat with Chris’s genial musical sons and gave a patient hearing to their plangent stories (as tears rolled down their cheeks) can realize what it was like in those times when Lorna stormed the Perry’s abode. While I compliment the great movie producers and actors here is a plea, “Enjoy the movie but remember to say an Ave Maria for all broken homes”. No wonder Chris’s genial, super talented boys have refused to enter thus far into matrimony; they also do not want to have anything to do whatsoever that is even remotely connected with Lorna. Dr. Francisco Colaco, Margao