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Friday, Aug 12, 2005

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Kavi Bharathi Vidyalaya students showcase their talents

Staff Reporter

The highlight of the evening is `Anjanai Puthiran,' a Tamil drama Every student had a role to play in the dance, song and drama events on stage at the school's 14th annual day

CHENNAI: On Saturday night, Rajah Annamalai Mandram would have passed off for a venue hosting a popular star nite show. A closer look revealed that the persons holding the jam-packed auditorium spellbound were none other than students of the Kavi Bharathi Vidyalaya of Tiruvottriyur in North Chennai. Every student had a role to play in the dance, song and drama events on stage at the school's 14th annual day.

Following the customary guest speeches by G. Neelakantan, Principal of Sir Sivaswamy Kalalaya Senior Secondary School, and the prize distribution, the students filed on stage, class-by-class performing after weeks of intense practise with the help of their teachers.

Shiv Kailash was a classical Bharatanatyam group dance for the song, `Bho Shambho Shivashambho.'

All for Love was an English play staged by students of standard V where the Princess Rose, knits dresses in silence to have her 12 brothers who have turned into geese, back into humans. Thennattu Themmangu was a Tamil folk dance and Happy Boys and Girls was a western dance.

Cell Phone or Hell Phone was an arresting mime dance by a stage teeming with students bringing all the human emotions into play to portray the use and abuse of the ubiquitous mobile phone.

There were three action songs `Mambo No.5,' `Made in India,' and `Global Fusion.' The last was done by students themselves, without help from teachers, Principal of the Kavi Bharathi Vidyalaya, Meena Suresh announced.

The highlight of the evening was `Anjanai Puthiran,' a drama in Tamil, which was a combination of the Villupattu style narration and enacting of the story of Hanuman's birth, life and the end.

The drama was a full-fledged one with all the stage settings, light and sound effects in place, including a giant rope seat on which Hanuman sits, before he sets fire to Sri Lanka.

The interest that the parents, students and past pupils showed in watching the performance was evident as the auditorium remained full till the last Punjabi folk dance performance was over past 9.15 p.m.

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