Mangalore: Bejai Catholic Sabha Presents 'Mega Baila Show' on Easter Sunday
By Rajesh S
Daijiworld Media Network—Mangalore
Mangalore, Apr 9: The Bejai unit of the Catholic Sabha is organizing a record-breaking mega musical event ‘Bejai Baila Show’ (Izai Baila Show), with star performances and events, on Sunday April 12 at Lourdes Central School.
The event will begin at 6 pm on Easter Sunday. Music lovers and all those who wish to perform charity can be a part of it. With this, Bejai Church which is known as the backyard for Konkani musicians, will add another feather in its cap.
Eric Ozario and Gurukiran
“The Baila show is going to be a grand one with variety of performances including dance, music, and others. Everyone who loves music and charity will join in it”, said Fr J P Tauro, parish priest, and spiritual director of Catholic Sabha, Bejai unit.
The Bejai unit of the Catholic Sabha has been actively involved in parish activities from the past 10 years.
”It is not a political organization, but believes in bringing social, economic, and political awareness among the people to enable them to work with unity for overall development of society”, said Lawrence Pinto, president, Catholic Sabha, Bejai unit.
Peppy songs with young and old artists, entertaining jokes from Nellu’s ‘Khoroz’ team, and dances by the ‘Nach Sobhann’ troupe are the major attractions of the show.
With melodies composed by World Konkani Kala Ratn Eric Ozario, the orchestra will be lead by Roshan D’Souza, Anjelore. Fifty professional artistes of Mandd Sobhann who have found a place for themselves in the Guinness Book of World Records, will also be a part of the show.
Eric and Joyce Ozario, Prakash D’Souza, Felix Lasrado, and Robin Sequeira, will all be part of the extravaganza. The 30-minute non-stop Baila medley by the top ten finalists of ‘Sodh-2’ along with `Sodh-1' winner Ammabelle Moras will be another highlight of the spectacular event.
Adolf Jayathilak of ‘Ye Mana’ fame, guitar maestro Alwyn Fernandes, and popular Kannada cinema music director Gurukiran, will be the guest artistes.
” Though many people reach us help for educational or medical necessities, we have a shortage of funds, so we decided to raise money to help them”, said Melvin Pereira, the chief co-ordinator of the event.
”Motivating the people to unite is the basic concept. We expect a huge crowd to attend this show”, said Lawrence Pinto.
Baila, a popular form of music, is not only popular among the Konkani-speaking people of India, but is also very popular in countries like Sri Lanka, Mauritius, and Brazil. It is equally enjoyed by Kannada and Telugu music lovers.
The Bejai unit of the Catholic Sabha has 150 members who are actively participating in various programmes.
Joseph Nazareth, Lawrence Pino, Matilda Pinto, Melvin Pereira, Nirmal Dsouza, Ronald D'Silva
Fr Joseph P Tauro, the parish priest of SFX church is the spiritual director, while Lawrence Pinto is the president and Matilda Pinto is vice-president.
Other office-bearers are Stany B Vas (secretary), Felcy D’Almeida (joint secretary), Nirmal D’Souza (treasurer), Ronald D’Silva (Sandesh representative), and Everest Norohna (Varado representative).
Joseph Nazareth, vice president, Bejai Church, and Melvin Pereira, chief co-ordinator of the programme, are the other core committee members.
Dr Aloysius Paul D'Souza, bishop of Mangalore will preside over the function. Clevy Leo Rodrigues, president, K C O, Abu Dhabi will be the chief guest. Ananthakrishna, chairman, Karnataka Bank Ltd, Mangalore and Ronald Colaco, NRI entrepreneur, Bangalore will be the guests of honour during the occasion.
