On Sunday, 11th of this month, starting at 10.30 AM, I watched the new Tiatro “NOURO” staged at Hanuman Theater Hall, Mapusa, by Peter Roshan. It was nice to see this Tiatro starting exactly in time but it was thinly attended by the audience, of course unexpectedly.
Though the story in the beginning is not very encouraging yet the last part especially the ending scene was very interesting revolving around Biblical term of forgiveness for the Nouro for his earlier mistake towards his first fiancée whose role was played by Roshan.
One of the scenes
Roshan’s role as a blind was more or less similar to the role played earlier in late sixties by the great Ophelia Cabral in genius C. Alvares’ excellent Tiatro “Kedna Udetelo To Dis” where C. Alvares was at his best with excellent script, excellent direction and excellent depiction. For this reason Tiatro audience is still remembering C. Alvares and his excellent cast. Many of the current directors though they try to plagarise C. Alvares yet they remain very far from him. For this reason C. Alvares remained unique. He knew whom to entrust what role and at his disposal he had all the best artistes, such artistes are not in existence now. He knew what dress code an artiste to use for certain roles and precisely because of this Ophelia gained great limelight in her role as “Kuddem Anita” in his most memorable Tiatro “Kedna Udetolo To Dis”. C. Alvares was a perfect and seasoned director. Today’s directors cannot emulate him, either in script or in direction.
Peter - Roshan singing a duet
It is a pity that today we don’t have great script writers and directors for this reason this Tiatro art is gone into the hands of tin - pot writers and directors whose only motto is to gain commercial benefit. For this reason without proper home work and research many of the present day directors come out with new – new Tiatros in new – new seasons. And by the way, how many among the present directors are real script writers?
Roshan & Clara sing on Antonette de Calangute
The Tiatro “Nouro” lacked serenity normally associated with the traditional Tiatro, it was more of chaotic where unnecessary screaming played a major role because of which it sounded disturbing to the ears and hence tasteless. The Band consisting of 6 instruments also played very loud music thereby preventing some in the audience to lose the track of the words rendered by the singers. The musical feeling played during the play was disturbing. The comedy part was handled by comedian Brian and his partner. It was nice to see him back on the Stage after his accident. May God help him to recover completely without any defect.
The Side Show songs failed to elevate the level of this Tiatro though one song on the late Antonette de Calangute rendered by Roshan and veteran Clara was superb and it is worth listening. Both the solos rendered by youngster Brandon were good, incidentally he is the son of Peter – Roshan. The political duet rendered by Peter and Roshan on election and Parrikar was beautiful.
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