Nothing withered the charm
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The staging of `Kanyasulkam' evoked a mixed response.
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Photo: C.V.Subrahmanyam
POPULAR PLAY `Kanyasulkam' is still a favourite.
Amazingly, the play Kanyasulkam of Gurajada Apparao scripted in the last quarter of the 19th century, published first in 1909 and staged innumerable number of times since then still reigns in popularity.
The play, that was scripted in the last quarter of 19th century, was first published in 1909 and has since been staged innumerable times. Neither age has withered it, nor the changes in the custom have rendered it irrelevant.
The characters in the play comprise a bunch of Brahmins, a few young widows, an opportunistic Girisam who's fond of high life, a lecherous litigant Ramappa Pantulu, compassionate Karataka Sastry, the enticing Madhuravani, , a reformist advocate Soujanya Rao Pantulu and so on representing the indispensable aberration and the reformatory zeal that coexist in the society. Commemorating the memory of its founder president K.V. Memorial Arts Association staged an abridged version of the play at Kalabharathi recently.
Directed by P. Sivaprasad, it lasted a little over three hours including the spells of power failure and evoked a mixed response. K.S. Venkata Rao as Karataka Sastry, V.K. Prasad as Agnihotravadhanulu, K. Vijayalakshmi as Madhuravani and A. Chandra Sekhara Rao , seemed to have lived the roles.
V.L.S. Sarma as Lubhavadhanulu, O.V.S. Narayana as Ramappapantulu and Sandhya Priyadarshini as Venkamma exhibited good talent.
While Sivajyoti as Butchamma and Ch. Nagesh as school boy Venkatesam appeared too old to don the roles, others in the cast, director Sivaprasad as Girisam, V. Nancharayya, M. Chandra Rao, A.R. Mohana Rao, K.S. Appa Rao, Mallika, Rama and Priyanka were not found wanting. Make-up by K.S.V. Rao and A.R. Rao, music by P.V. Raju and Satyanarayana and stage decor by N.V. Rao, G. Kannababu and Chakradhar were good.
A.RAMALINGA SASTRY
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