The curtains unfold to a scene in the Goa Legislative Assembly, where proceedings are underway and various issues pertaining to Goa and Goans are discussed at length. The same scene repeats before the interval, with the grand entry of PM (Teotonio D’Costa).
The story revolves around two siblings Sharon (Sharon Mazarello) and Bushan (Bushan). After the demise of her husband, Sharon resides with her only son Stanley (Jone), who is studying.
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Bushan returns from the UK in order to settle house and property issues. But the tenants, whom she had rented her house, are unwilling to vacate. Her sister Sharon is equally hapless as she cannot assist in any way. Had Bushan requested her sister to take care of her house in her absence, then it would have been in safer hands.
There’s the landlord Raposo (Wilmix), who steps in occasionally to assist in whatever way he can. And there’s the CM (Rosario Botelho) with Constans (comedian Joyel) as his PA.
On the other hand, Franky (Franky), son of Lap’pa (Agnel) and Lamani (Aplon) was born and brought up in Goa. Stanley and Franky are good friends and both are supporters of the minister.
Sharon warns her son not to stay too close to the minister, but Stanley has high hopes of gaining employment. Stanley is involved with his friend Jenny (Alina), but Franky is equally eyeing her on the sly. By hook or crook, he wants to win her over. But Jenny is unaware that Stanley along with Franky is involved in drugs, with the support of the minister. What follows next is worth the watch during the second half of the presentation.
Anthony Sylvester’s tiatr ‘Goem Ghanttar Viklem Konnem?’ brings to light various issues and facts pertaining to speed breakers, unemployment among educated youth, their slavery at the hands of the powers-to-be, empowerment of the migrants and haplessness of sons and daughters of the soil.
Sharon and Bhushan share the stage as siblings, while Wilmix stands tall as the landlord with fluency in Portuguese as well. But how many of those ‘bhattkars’ are still in existence in Goa is a question mark. Botelho has enacted his role as CM with ease. Comedian Agnel, Aplon and Franky form a family of the migrants and there’s good interaction between them. Anil Pednekar projects himself as a social activist and he does it in style. The newcomers on the commercial stage, Jone Afonso and Alina Cunha are quite confident in their respective roles and dialogue delivery and they both have a bright future.
In the comic acts, there’s Caetano as the videographer and comedian Agnel, Aplon carries a good dose of laughter pills by their acts and dialogues. The concluding scene could have been more interactive and appealing rather than mere preaching.
In the category of songs, Jones and Alina steps in for the opening song, followed by solos from Anthony San on the subject, Konkani, Avers Pereira highlighting the need to scrap vulgar comedy prevailing in today’s tiatrs, Succor de Santa Cruz focusing on ‘Goencho Saib’ and Xavier Gomes. Other songs are by Succor and Avers, Ave, Franky and Succor which is a tribute to Lorna, two duets by Evola/C D’Silva and Wilmix/Sharon on democracy. There’s also a song by Anthony San, Ben Evangelisto, C D’Silva, Agnelo and Joyel highlighting the latest issue of ‘Sunburn Fest’. Senon and his team have provided good live music offstage. The stage sets are by Kapil Chari and the lights have been handled by Dinesh.
