During my latest interactions with our Ozzie Sequeira, he alerted me to the existence of new content on Wikipedia of which I had no clue – “I read your name on wikipedia.org/wiki/konkani_people#history under the title notable mangalorean catholics”. Very gracious of him.
Earlier, I was aware of a couple of other sites that concerned me – but that was only because of some rather insignificant role I had, acting (post retirement from the police) in the Muppet show – the children’s educational serial on television “Gali Gali Sim Sim” Indian version of America’s most popular and longest surviving tele-serial “Sesame Street” – produced by Miditech of the ‘Alva Brothers’ in India in collaboration with Turner Brothers of America. Between 2006-07 they got me to act as Col. Pinto in the serial in over a hundred episodes of Gali Gali Sim Sim which is mainly a Muppet show with just five human characters.
The related Wikipages were:
i. Muppet Wiki page accessible at http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Maxwell_Pereira
ii. Wikipedia page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Pereira
I was neither a hero, nor a great actor, and was quite intrigued to find that someone somewhere had created pages on me for the Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia!
The real purpose of the information posted above is not for self-agrandisement, but for what follows: In the itinerary for the REUNION listed by Arun, I remember the mention of Ozzie Sequeira as having acted in a Konkani movie and that we should perhaps get a screening of this movie for our viewing pleasure at the REUNION. What I didn’t know was that Ozzie had not just acted, but was indeed the first Mangalorean Catholic to be in the movies – the Hero of the first ever Konkani movie “Mog Ani Maipas”. I believe it was a very well made movie, but it did not do well at the hustings because of opposition from other quarters. Apparently it still remains the most popular film even after 32 years because of its songs. Ozzie informed me he is trying to make a DVD of it; we hope he does, since it would be great for us all to view it at the ReUnion.
Meanwhile you can see Ozzie and his wife and second son Kevin in their Konkani religious skit "Our Lady of Guadalupe” on YouTube -- as also their photos on www.macsounsar and on google by just typing his name – and looking for the Oswald Sequeira there distinguished as a stage actor.
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