Hea Gharachim Dharam Bondh

Hea Gharachim Dharam Bondh delights Goans
RICHARD RODRIGUES

He came! He saw! He
conquered! Hearts and minds of tiatr lovers in Goa. A verdict unanimously pronounced by those who thronged to see Laurente Periera’s gripping drama, ”Hea Gharachim Dharam Bondh”.
After successfully staging the tiatr in Kuwait in late 2006, Laurente made an indelible impression on the Konkani stage in Goa by presenting his tiatr to capacity audiences in Panjim, Margao, Mapusa, Sanvordem, Morjim, and in his native home town Utorda.
The tiatr unfolds a very fascinating and intriguing story powered by love, hatred, jealousy, deceit, and interlaced with rib-tickling comedy.
The story revolves around father Baltazar(Roseferns), his two lovely daughters, Cynthia(Felcy), Sonia(Olga), and a habitually inebriated son Trevor(Pascoal Rodrigues). While Cynthia gets happily married to Dylan(Mathew Araujo), Sonia is double-crossed at the altar for not providing the promised dowry.
Now enter the devil-incarnate Vicky(Anil Pednekar) to unleash his evil machinations as the plot unfolds with suspenseful twists and turns, climaxing with good triumphing over evil.
The Kuwait-based artistes, namely Cajetan, Marcus, and the director Laurente, have given excellent performances but it is the comedy queen Querobina who shines with her wonderful portrayal, reappearing on stage in Goa after a lapse of 15 years.
The artistes from Goa like Olga, Felcy, Meena, Lawry, Osvy, Peter-Roshan, Victor, Mathew, Anil, and comedians Agostinho and Selvy are sheer delight to watch but the king of centuries Roseferns and the prince of centuries Pascoal Rodrigues bask in the limelight with superlative performances.
The solos, duets, trios, quartets are beautifully rendered, but it is the Octet, a rarity on modern stage that steals the thunder with excellent rendition.
The musical score by Anthony de Velim with Goa’s ace musicians is appealingly enjoyable as also the special light effects by Iris, particularly the visual illustration in which the crown from the head of the statue of Mother Mary floats and rests on the head of Sonia as a sign of divine intercession.
The stage setting is par excellence, especially the first time display in Goa of scenes of the Kuwait towers, the Liberation tower, and the 3-Banks complex, the landmark features of Kuwait.
Kudos to the director Laurente Pereira who apparently, has burnt a lot of midnight oil to bring such a magnum opus on stage.
The drama is an all-out entertainer, the memories of which are bound to linger in the minds of tiatr lovers for a long, long time.

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