Chi Tai: Comedy Life Full of Innocence

On the afternoon of December 9, the news of Chi Tai died suddenly from a shocking blow with numerous colleagues and the public. Or bad news, actor Cat Tuong was stunned: “Just the other day, we were still taking photos, we were still chatting and joking happily.”

Chi Tai is always at the top of the most beloved comedians, although she plays mostly parodies, not in many major dramas and movies. He began to embrace the art in the mid-1980s when he was determined to learn to play the piano and play music, despite family opposition. Little by little, his band … Chi Tai Brothers – attract attention, be invited by various music centers abroad to collaborate. Thinking of staying in the role of musician, he met Hoai Linh, life took a new direction.

Before Hoai Linh opened the invitation to collaborate, Van Son noticed Chi Tai. Her gentle charm, her “funny-looking” face, as described by many colleagues at the time, advised her to pursue a career in comedy. He hesitated, partly because he was not confident in acting, partly because he regretted his efforts to pursue music creation for a long time. Hoai Linh made Chi Tai change her mind. In the mid-1990s, Hoai Linh emerged as an overseas comedy village phenomenon, admired by many artists, including Chi Tai. He accepted an invitation to mate with Hoai Linh because he admired the talent of his colleague 11 years younger than him.

The combination between Hoai Linh and Chi Tai is an unexpected success, becoming a step forward for both in their careers. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, many viewers searched for tapes from a collection of comic parodies of the couple. In addition to Hoai Linh, Chi Tai is fully promoting her acting potential thanks to harmony. In performances, the two often play the role of a couple of characters with opposite personalities: a faithful wife with a traitorous husband, a strict father and a playful child … With a wry expression, sometimes he would just go on stage, Chi Tai made the audience laugh.

Chi Tai has a rustic acting style, which sometimes elicits laughter with an awkward, sincere gesture, with soft but moving lines. His characters create laughter, criticizing the reverse of people in modern society. In 2005, in parodies Ru songs (Hoai Linh wrote the script), Chi Tai left his mark with the role of the husband, leaving his wife to follow his lover, when he needed it, he asked for forgiveness again. Or stay The flute in the river, his role is that of a father who forces his son to marry without debt.

If the stage segment helps make audiences love Chi Tai’s name, the cinema is where he clearly shows off his acting skills. In 2015, he appeared in a movie. Winning numbers (Director Dustin Nguyen) as Tu Phi, a man who rebuilds his life after being released from prison. In the scene where Mr. Tu suddenly won the lottery and was hurt by the bad guys, Chi Tai’s disgruntled performance evoked sympathy for the character, contributing to the prize. BEST FILM for his work on the Golden Wing 2016. A year later, Chi Tai reunites Hoai Linh in the film Nervous nostalgic lang – Adapted from a famous play. In the role of Nam Trieu, he brought the audience’s tears through scenes of an elderly couple lost in America, who lived dependent on each other with bright memories at home.

Hoai Linh and Chi Tai in the movie

30 years in the profession, Chi Tai’s innocent smile as a child Stay in colleagues. Director Duc Thinh, who worked with comedians on many live shows, said that because of his gentleness, Chi Tai is often the focus of mockery from his colleagues. He was mocked from snoring to “spending money carefully”. Each time like this, the comedian laughed because he understood that his colleagues honestly and sincerely liked him. He is not afraid to learn even though he plays hundreds of skits. Every time he finished his role, he just went backstage, immediately asking the director, “How do you see you can play?” Duc Thinh said: “The most precious thing about you is always being fit as a new actor.”

In life, Chi Tai always maintains a simple and popular style. In April, when he returned home, he was sent to isolation due to the epidemic. Two weeks in the dormitory of the National University of Ho Chi Minh City, the room where Chi Tai lived is always singing. His roommates, mostly international students, were impressed with the way he was always vibrant in all situations. The comedian gets up at 5 in the morning to do push-ups, walk or climb stairs and invite two friends to do sports every day. With a good sense of humor, he often teases members of the room. Each of his meals sometimes lasts an hour because the audience comes to take photos and he immediately drops his plate, posing excitedly with. A young man in the same quarantine zone as Chi Tai said he had “never seen such a popular comedian.”

Chi Tai once said, if there is something that makes him sad, he must often live away from his wife, singer Phuong Loan.. Married for 33 years, they have lived apart for 15 years because she is in the United States and he often returns home to perform. Every year, she visits her husband once, while Chi Tai also takes advantage of shows in the United States to be with his wife. Making art, interacting with many beautiful people, the comedian always tells himself that he must resist temptation. In 2019, while doing a live show in the country, Chi Tai reviewed the love story as a way to honor his wife who quietly contributed to his aura.

In the last years of her life, Chi Tai sometimes regretted not having children to continue her career. Several times to sit down for coffee, when her friends asked her about her plan to grow old, her heart broke, even though the decision not to have children was the couple’s decision. In the past, he and his wife did not want to give birth because they were concerned about not having sufficient material conditions and did not want their children to be born in circumstances of deprivation. When he followed the acting career, absorbed in his career, when he stopped to rest, he was already older, he lost his way with his children. Chi Tai once painted a picture of a couple enjoying old age together, traveling together, holding the piano, and composing music. Before he died, it still hurt him that a CD was sung for the audience. In it, he will sing songs that he wrote exclusively for his wife.

Chi Tai sang ‘Lonely love’

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