*PRESS NOTE*
IN FAVOUR OF PUBLICATION *Tiatr Academy Goa Condoles Anil Kumar’s Death* Anil Kumar one of the most versatile actors who enthralled the audience with his acting abilities left for his heavenly abode on 6th February 2015. He passed away peacefully at Goa Medical College, Bambolim after a brief illness. Anil C. Devulkar, born on 12th March 1951 at Chandor Goa is popularly known as Anil Kumar amongst Tiatr lovers. He is a senior actor, producer, director and playwright of the tiatr stage. He proved himself as a very versatile actor, an innovative director and a playwright who projected an issue with thorough understanding. If one goes through the life history of Anil Kumar one observes that he had immense love to tiatr and tiatr stage. This attitude of Anil Kumar gave him encouragement to achieve greater heights in the field of tiatr and he succeeded in his endeavors. Anil Kumar made his entry on the tiatr stage through Khell-Tiatrs and rose to become one of the topmost tiatr artistes of Konkani stage. He worked and brushed his shoulders with professional Khell-Tiatr producers, writers, directors like *Patrick Dourado, Rosario Rodrigues, A. M. Pacheco, Minino De Bandar, Vitorino Pereira, Ligorio Fernandes, C. D. Silva, John D’Silva, Prince Jacob, Pascoal Rodrigues,* etc. As a born artiste Anil Kumar’s acting in Khell-Tiatrs helped the popular directors of Khell-Tiatrs to take the standard and quality of Khell-Tiatr in Goa to greater heights. He made his debut on professional tiatr stage in 1980 in the tiatr entitled *‘Ordhi Bhakri’* written, produced and directed by Prem Kumar. Later on he worked with stalwarts of tiatr like *M. Boyer, C. Alvares, Chris Perry, Remmie Colaco, Jacinto Vaz, Nelson Alfonso, Kamat de Assolna, Shalini Mardolkar, John Claro, Alfred Rose, Mike Mehta, Joe Rose, Paul Romy, Rodhill, Seby D’Souza, Fr. Freddy, Fr. Planton Faria,* etc. One of the most important qualities in Anil Kumar was that he studied his roles with depth and perfection made efforts to portray it in the best possible manner. He was a good writer too. He has written tiatrs on various issues that exist in our society. The content of his tiatrs, proved that Anil Kumar’s writing was full of rich contents which helped him to highlight the issue in an effective manner. Till now he penned tiatrs like *‘Otmo’, ‘Bhirant’, ‘Saulli’, ‘Divea Pondak’, ‘Dev Podvedar’, ‘Dennem Devachem’, Noxib’, ‘Axechi Bhuk’, ‘Maim What is This?’ *to name a few. He himself directed all his tiatrs which were very much received by the audience. Some of his tiatrs are also published in book forms. Being a director of substance, Anil Kumar also directed tiatrs written by stalwarts of tiatr stage. Two of the most popular tiatrs namely *‘Ekuch Rosto’ *and *‘Soumsar Sudhorlo’ *written by M. Boyer were reproduced under the direction of Anil Kumar. So also another tiatr namely *‘Ordhi Bhakri’ *which was written by yet another superstar of Konkani stage late Prem Kumar was directed and staged by Shri. Anil Kumar. The scripts of the greats of tiatr stage of yester years namely Souza Ferrao and Father of Tiatr, Joao Agostinho Fernandes were also staged under the direction of Shri. Anil Kumar. He may be the only artiste who had the opportunity to direct the tiatr *‘Ghovyo Put’ *written by late Souza Ferrao and *‘Tandllamchem Kestaum’ *written by Joao Agostinho Fernandes – Father of Tiatr. Anil Kumar could not limit his acting abilities to the field of tiatr alone. He also acted in M. Das’s Konkani film *‘Girestkai’ *and Pundalik Narayan Naik’s *‘Doulot’. *Besides this, he had acted in number of video films namely *‘Zababdari’, ‘To Dis Udetlo’, ‘Bhitorlea Monacho Monis’, ‘Ordhem Cheador’*, etc. He also produced video films *‘Moneak Zap Suttli’* and *‘Bhavart Bhorvonso’* which were appreciated by the audience. He is a recipient of State Cultural Award from Government of Goa and was also felicitated by various institutions including TIatr Academy of Goa for his Lifetime Contribution to the field of Tiatr. On behalf of all the tiatr fraternity and the tiatr lovers, Tiatr Academy of Goa condoles the death of this great personality and express hearth felt sympathies to his bereaved family and prays that the Almighty may give his soul eternal peace. *(Jacob Fernandes)* President Ecl: Photos of Anil Kumar
