Yesterday night at about 10.30 pm, I received 2 telephone calls using threatening and abusive language against me for writing in this forum on vulgar tiatrists about their vulgar acts on the Stage, one of the calls from the son and the other from his father. The way they talked it sounded that they are the owners of this world and they are capable of doing anything to me. They think I am wearing ladies Bangles. I don’t know what they think of themselves. Ultimately the father said he will file a defamation case against me and I answered saying o.k. Meantime, I have already informed to whom I have to inform, of these threatening calls by both the tiatrists father and son duo. They both failed to accept the fact that they being the public figures as Tiatrists their actions from the Stage are in the hands of public scrutiny. They feel they are both omnipotent and as such they are infallible. If they and Tiatrists like them feel they cannot be criticized for their wrong doings then they should leave the public forum of Konkani Stage.
Tiatro is a very good part of our culture and since its birth it played a very productive role in our society. It is partly because of the Tiatro our society is changed for the good. The effect of rigid caste system was minimized because of the Tiatro, the arrogance of clergy was reduced because of the Tiatro, the inequality in society was reduced because of the Tiatro. Likewise so many ills of society were cured by the Tiatros.
About 25 years after its birth, Tiatro enactment gone into the hands of corrupt and vulgar tiatrists whom the Pai Tiatrist called as “ROSTAD TIATRISTS”. Because of this the audience became less for Tiatros and elite audience stopped watching Tiatros. Then Minguel Rod came into the picture and thru his Tiatros he brought total change in Tiatro audience because Minguel Rod magnetized the elite audience to the Tiatro.
Still Tiatros are dominated by third rate tiatrists who are promoting themselves by enacting cheap and vulgar Tiatros and vulgar scenes, indecent and immoral songs. Thru this vulgarity these tiatrists are killing this beautiful art of Tiatro initiated by Lucasinho Ribeiro. Since this is the case every lover and promoter of Tiatros is duty bound to raise his or her voice against vulgarity in Tiatros promoted by the vulgar Tiatrists. If we do not put an end to the vulgarity in Tiatro then vulgarity will put an end to Tiatro. And that will be the end of genuine Tiatro.
One of the reasons for entering vulgarity in Tiatros is because some of the Tiatrists are deep rooted vulgar without proper manner and discipline in life. How a drunkard Tiatrist can exhibit discipline? What discipline one can expect from a Tiatrist who was bought up by the hired mother when his own mother deserted him? What discipline and decency one can expect from a Tiatrist who is a habitual wife deserter and living with a hired wife immorally? When a Tiatrists live in perpetual vulgarity he will be a slave of vulgarity which he will carry wherever he goes.
Even the Church leaders must preach from the Altars the ills of vulgarity displayed by the vulgar Tiatrists from the Stage.
A.Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim, Goa.
Tel: 7507394349.