<p> With the wide release of his first album of Konkani songs here last week, Tavares underscores his enduring passion for the Goan “tiatr” tradition.<br /><br />The DVD/VCD album, shot in various locales in Goa over 35 days, has lyrics and songs composed by Tavares and performed by a spectrum of Konkani star singers and stage artists. The album is produced by his brother-in-law.<br /><br />But it isn’t every other day that one sees a real cop — uniform and all — star in a video CD. DySP Tavares who sings two songs in the album had to get it officially approved. His video “Police Porjek” (pro-people police) would help promote a more friendly image of the Goa police force, the top brass here felt.<br /><br />Tavares has been a cop for 23 years, but ask him what is more difficult — to run the Mapusa police station which he heads as the sub-divisional officer or to sing in a “tiatr”, and he replies with little hesitation: “I love to wear the uniform, but ‘tiatr’ runs in my family.”<br /><br />And indeed it is families like his, which has been actively engaged in the “tiatr” in their Cuncolim village from the early ‘70s, that have kept alive a vibrant Goan Catholic tradition.<br />Tavares DVD was released simultaneously in Swindon and Wembley, UK and other parts of the world where Goans are concentrated, in Canada, the Gulf and USA.<br /></p>
<p> With the wide release of his first album of Konkani songs here last week, Tavares underscores his enduring passion for the Goan “tiatr” tradition.<br /><br />The DVD/VCD album, shot in various locales in Goa over 35 days, has lyrics and songs composed by Tavares and performed by a spectrum of Konkani star singers and stage artists. The album is produced by his brother-in-law.<br /><br />But it isn’t every other day that one sees a real cop — uniform and all — star in a video CD. DySP Tavares who sings two songs in the album had to get it officially approved. His video “Police Porjek” (pro-people police) would help promote a more friendly image of the Goa police force, the top brass here felt.<br /><br />Tavares has been a cop for 23 years, but ask him what is more difficult — to run the Mapusa police station which he heads as the sub-divisional officer or to sing in a “tiatr”, and he replies with little hesitation: “I love to wear the uniform, but ‘tiatr’ runs in my family.”<br /><br />And indeed it is families like his, which has been actively engaged in the “tiatr” in their Cuncolim village from the early ‘70s, that have kept alive a vibrant Goan Catholic tradition.<br />Tavares DVD was released simultaneously in Swindon and Wembley, UK and other parts of the world where Goans are concentrated, in Canada, the Gulf and USA.<br /></p>
