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The three-day Yakhshagana festival brought children to the forefront.
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The Vishwa Vikyata Makka Mela, (the Internationally reputed children's troupe), from Saligrama Udipi, presented a scintillating Yakshagana performance at Sundarayya hall in Hyderabad at a three-day festival recently .
Yakshagana national award winners Karkada Srinivasa Udupa and H. Sridhara Hande select talented school children and train them in the dance form, without disturbing their education.
The training is given free of charge, in turn encouraging those interested children to join the troupe and inculcate the tradition of Yakshagana from a young age.
This troupe, which is celebrating its silver jubilee this year, has given performances all over the country and also at USA, U.K. and Bahrain.The festival began with the presentation Veera Vrisha Sena.The play depicted the epic of the Kurukshetra war, which enters the 17th day.
The second day of the festival saw Babruvahana being performed, also a story from the Mahabharata. Pandavas take up the Aswamedha Yagnam, for purification of the curse of killing their cousins Kauravas. The final day show was Drupada Bandana. Guru Drona and Drupada were good friends but on one occasion Drona is insulted by Drupada. Drona hurt by the insult gets angry and instructs his disciples Bhima and Arjuna to wage a war against Drupada and bind him and bring him to his feet.
Bhima and Arjuna accomplish the wishes of the Guru and bring Drupada as Guru Dakshina to Drona.All the three plays were fast paced with good dialogue delivery and dance movements. All the children were between 14 and 16 years of age , yet they displayed their histrionic talent to the core, in spite of the fact that they were donning heavy make up, costumes and headgears.
Navena, Sandeep, Tejus, Manoja Bhat, Shreesha, Krishnaswamy Joshi, Sushruta, Sandesha and Swastika were the young artistes who performed, while the main singer, who is called the Bhagvat, was H. Sujayeendra Hande.
On the maddale was B. Balakrishna and M. Madhava on the chende. The shows were directed by H. Sridhara Hande and organised by the Karnataka Karavali Maithri Sangha, Hyderabad.
C. S. K
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