Rajdeep Naik

Hours after the release of his social media post criticising the government over its one-time financial assistance to artistes left jobless due to the pandemic, well-known theatre personality and social media influencer, Rajdeep Naik’s car was vandalised on Saturday. The incident has evoked angry reactions.

A Konkani film has been chosen for screening at the upcoming Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (Iffm) in Australia.

Over 5,000 students and youth attended the two-day 17th Goa Yuva Mahotsav at Government College in Quepem that began on January 28.

Students of Dnyanprasarak Mandal's College (DMC) took out a morcha in Mapusa on Monday protesting the government's decision on medium of instruction (MoI).

Ten activists of the Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch were booked for unlawful assembly and attempting to stop Digambar Kamat's convoy, while he was travelling home to Margao via Ponda on Sunday evening.

Demanding an equal share in the profit of their film’s release, members of the Goa Film Finance Action Committee said that the ratio of profit offered by theatres in the state must be increased. Currently, filmmakers get only 30% of the share while theatres get 70%.

Though the sale of books based on Konkani dramas sell well, people shy away from watching Konkani dramas at halls citing a lack of interest or the cost of tickets, Konkani scholars and drama stakeholders said. The waning interest in Konkani drama comes at a time when Konkani tiatr continuesto attract a full house across Goa.

Inspired by the practice of screening films inside tents, also known as tamboo films, in Maharashtra, makers of Konkani film Mortoo, are all set to take the film to remote areas of the state

Former chief minister and leader of the opposition Hemant Soren on Monday visited Bijang village in Oremanjhi, where a farmer reportedly consumed pesticide and later died in a hospital.

Panaji: WHN’s digital portal Goencho Balcao, that has changed the way Konkani entertainment is consumed digitally, has received positive feedback in the form of purchases from Goans in the UAE, UK, US, Norway, Finland and the Caribbean too.

Home Sweet Home - the latest Konkani film directed by Swapnil Shetkar of Go Goa Gollywood Productions will be screened at all major cinema theatres and Ravindra Bhavans in Goa on Friday, December 26, disclosed the co-producer Madhav Gad

After 600 plus screenings in Goa, Dubai, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait, ‘Home Sweet Home’, director Swapnil Shetkar is treating the audience to a sequel of the film. ESG vice-chairperson Damodar ‘Damu’ Naik unveiled the poster of the film and announced Christmas Day, December 25, as the release date of the sequel ‘Home Sweet Home 2’ with the tagline ‘Now the game will be rough’.

From the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, a Goan sailor posed a query to the Konkani diaspora, Nidtokoch poddtta, punn utt’ttokoch poddonam – kitem tem sang”. Around the globe, Goans joined him in reviving a hoary but fading pastime.

After lending a ear to the challenges faced by local filmmakers, chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Tuesday assured them of a budgetary provisions for the revival of the government film finance scheme in the upcoming state budget to be presented in March.

Protests over the medium of instruction (MoI) found a way to ruin Goa's 65th Revolution Day celebrations in Azad Maidan, Panaji, and Lohia Maidan, Margao, on Saturday.

Credited for his pioneering efforts in bringing professional Konkani and Marathi plays to the fore in the state, Konkani theatre enthusiast Rajdeep Naik has proved that it is possible to produce commercially viable plays for a local audience. Seeing his success and following his footsteps, 30-odd theatre groups in the state sprung up after Naik set up the very successful Kala Chetana, in Volvoi.

In times of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, musicians and artists are putting their talent to good use.