Tiatr Academy of Goa’s monthly programme ‘Kolakarak Bhett’ (Meet the
Artiste) will be held on 17th January 2011 at 4:30 pm at Conference Hall
of Tiatr Academy of Goa (TAG), Campal Trade Center, Panjim. The tiatr
artiste of this month is Shri. Prince Jacob.
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Minguel Jacob Carmo Luis Fernandes popularly known as Prince Jacob is
the most popular tiatr artiste of present times. He is one of the few
artistes, who always introduced innovations on the tiatr stage.
Making a debut at the age of 13 years, in Rosario Dias’ tiatr “Chuk
Hanvem Adharli” in 1973, Prince Jacob turned out to be an artiste who
always experimented on tiatr stage. He always introduced novelties and
innovations on the tiatr stage. Some of the examples are:- Opening
chorus of the tiatr with attractive and meaningful sceneries,
intelligent and innovative comedy sequences, use of magic on tiatr stage
and also introduced illusions in his tiatrs. He made use of a living dog
to act in his tiatr. He also cast a handicapped person in real life to
act the role of a handicapped in his tiatr.
His first tiatr was “Pinzrem”. The tiatrs written by him were named in
such a way that the name started with letter ‘P’. For example,
‘Pinzrem’, ‘Pavnnek’, ‘Pordexi’, ‘Pangllo’, ‘Poltodd’, ‘Poixe-Poixe’,
‘Patkam’, ‘Pisso’, ‘Podvi’, ‘Put’, ‘Posco’, etc. In this way he wrote,
directed and staged 25 tiatrs, the 25th being “Padri”. All his
productions starting with the letter ‘P’ were smashing hits while the
last production “Padri” became the first tiatr in history to complete
315 performances.
After 25 productions starting with letter ‘P’, he started another chain
of productions names of which begin with letter ‘R’. For example
‘Raja-Rani’, ‘Rostad’, ‘Rag’, ‘Rupia’, ‘Rontto’, ‘Rogot’, ‘Rudan’,
‘Randponn’, ‘Rajvodki’, etc, are some of the examples.
In all Prince Jacob has produced 49 tiatrs till date, all of which has
given real satisfaction to the audience and has made Prince Jacob a
household name. ‘Rupnnem’ was his 37th production. For the first time in
the history of Konkani tiatr, a full length Marathi drama ‘Sahi Re Sahi’
is translated in Konkani and converted into a tiatr by Prince Jacob.
‘Sahi Re Sahi’ written by Kedar Shinde is presently running successfully
in Maharashtra.
His tiatr ‘Zaiat-Zage’ was awarded the Best Drama & Best Script at the
First Popular Tiatr Festival 2009 organized by Tiatr Academy of Goa in
February-March 2010.
Prince Jacob is a good lyricist and a singer too. So far he has produced
11 Konkani Albums. On the occasion of 50 years of Independence of our
country, he produced an album, “Aids-achi Pidda” which was dedicated to
the selfless people fighting against the spread of this disease. He has
also produced Konkani Films, (1) Celluloid Film – ‘Padri’ and (2) HD
Film – ‘Roddonaka’.
Prince Jacob is not only an excellent artiste, but an excellent human
being too. He is a social worker with a difference. A patriot who is
proud to be an Indian. He uses certain percentage of his earnings for
human causes such as helping the sick, raising funds towards Road
Activities Victim Trust, helping the fighting against Aids, helping
financially for the formation of Priests and Nuns, collecting funds for
patriotic causes, etc.
Prince Jacob is a living example of success through hard work. Besides
achieving name, fame and money his work has been appreciated and
recognized by many institutions. He has been decorated with numerous
awards conferred on him by institutions and individuals in and outside Goa.
All tiatr lovers are requested to attend the function.
Victor de Sa
Member Secretary
