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CINEMA


Stars in the reckoning
Some of English cinema's highest paid actresses have reached a pivotal point in their careers, even as a new `pack' is eager to take over the centre stage. ANAND PARTHASARATHY sizes up the current and upcoming work of eight women whose talents domin ate Hollywood today. More
The fare this season
More than half a dozen films are expected to hit the screens this Pongal and as usual some of them have raised a lot of expectations. S.R. ASHOK KUMAR lists the releases in the offing. More
Now in a new role
Film-maker and actor Vijay Anand, who has recently been appointed chairman of the Censor Board, discusses his job and various related issues with V. GANGADHAR More

FILM REVIEW
MUSIC
Lives up to high standard
THE GREATEST quality of the violin play of T. N. Krishnan is that music has to be felt and not thought out. This objective has conferred grace and peace on his interpretation of kirtanas and alapanas. The ragas Poorvi Kalyani and Karaharapriya he ... More
Subtle support
NEYVELI SANTHANAGOPALAN, singing for Tyaga Brahma Gana Sabha, benefited from the serene support of the accompanists. Embar Kannan on the violin and T. V. Gopalakrishnan on the mridangam enabled the vocalist to engage himself in a sedate ... More
Rendered with care
IN THE veena concert by Abhirami Gnanasambandan, for the Nungambakkam Cultural Academy, the kritis "Devadi Deva" (Sunada Vinodini) and "Banturiti" (Hamsanadam) were rendered with care. The subsequent brief ragam, Natabhairavi, and ``Sri Valli ... More
An elevating experience
THE NEW year dawned in a pleasant manner at the Mylapore Fine Arts Club with the violin concert of Lalgudi Jayaraman along with his children G. J. R. Krishnan and Vijayalakshmi. From the beginning to the end it was an elevating experience. They ... More
Refreshing contrast
IT WAS more than appropriate that the authorities of R.R. Sabha, one of the oldest music sabhas in Chennai should have thought fit to conclude this season's concert series on a note of vintage music. Lalita Sivakumar and Gayatri Sundararaman's ... More
Applause all the way
VARADHARAJAN'S VIOLIN offered the appropriate repartees to Unnikrishnan's wide-range, full-throated, briga-ridden sancharas in Vasantabhairavi alapana. There was thundering applause. ``Nee Dayaradaa'' (Roopakam, Tyagaraja) was rendered with ... More
A trip, nostalgic and musical
THE BOOK titled "Semmangudi: A Mosaic Portrait," consists of re-prints of articles published in Sruti, as a special feature on this multi-faceted personality. It covers every aspect of the musical giant, who is affectionately referred to ... More
Carries the audience with him
STARTING THE concert with "Vathapi" (Hamsadhwani), the invocation to Lord Ganesha, followed by "Sri Saradham" (Khamas), Vijaya Siva established his mark on New Year's day. With sruti in perfect unison he could carry the audience with him in his ... More
A fine musical pair
IT IS all very well to talk about kadukkans and jarigai veshtis - yes he does make a statement with his appearance but beyond all that is his competence over two styles of music - the Hindustani and the Carnatic. Which goes for his ... More
Devotional atmosphere
THE VOCAL recital of Palghat K. V. Naranaswamy well supported by Padma Narayanaswami featured by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams' Information Centre, T. Nagar, as inaugural concert in its Dhanurmasa Sangeetha Utsavam gave an experience of the ... More
Professional effort
AT THEIR performance for the Music Academy, Bombay sisters, C. Saroja and C. Lalitha, were accompanied by Usha Rajagopalan on the violin, K. R. Ganesh on the mridangam and N. Govindarajan on the ghatam formed the accompanying ensemble for the ... More

DANCE
Siva in many dimensions
SAILAJA, THIS year's Yuva Kala Bharathi awardee for Kuchipudi coferred by Bharat Kalachar is a versatile dancer. She is adept at Bharatanatyam too. She presented Satyam, Sivam, Sundaram, in Kuchipudi with Sanskrit compositions of ancient and ... More
Crisp and confident
SOMETIMES, ONE goes to a dance recital with great trepidation - one does not know what to expect. On January 3, at the Nungambakkam Cultural Academy with the season on the wane, one was not disappointed. It was the recital of Sulakshana ... More
Disappointing interpretation
AT THE Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, the recital of Leela Samson revealed the distinct stamp of her alma mater, Kalakshetra. Leela, well known in the dance circuit of the capital city, had chosen to present more of Sringara-oriented compositions on ... More
Boost to talent
VARNAM IS the all- inclusive feature of the art, including its complex syntax of pure dance patterns, inter-related with interpretation of situations, more commonly displaying the mood of sringara. Aarti Mohan, who participated in the Talent ... More

THEATRE
Presentation mars concept
MAYA RAO is a well-known kathak dancer-choreographer from Bangalore. Her latest work, ``Vijayanagar Vaibhav," a dance drama set in the court of King Krishnadevaraya, presented for Bharat Kalachar, was sadly ineffective on account of poor ... More
Conference achieves its purpose
THE CONSENSUS about this year's Natyakala Conference on dance choroegraphy at the Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, was that despite some unevenness, the presentations were generally better focussed than they had been in the recent past. Some did turn into ... More

ART & CRAFTS
Mountain magic
"WE CAN never reproduce Nature," says J. Ramanan, a mountain photographer. But his camera has managed to capture the awesome Himalayas, the lush valleys of the Kodai hills and much more quite impressively. "Call of the Mountains", an ... More
Art inspired by Beethoven
NOT HAVING been trained to draw, paint and sculpt as a professional, Kishore Chatterjee is under no compulsion to churn out art without inspiration. A life long connoisseur of the western high music, Kishore, the visual artist, is often inspired ... More
A touch of period charm
ACCENT FURNITURE with a whiff of nostalgia is on view at an interesting `niche' exhibition currently on at Contemporary Arts and Crafts, 41, C.P. Ramaswami Road, Alwarpet. The `Nostalgia' furniture, put together by Bharati Mahendra and Nandini ... More
With psychological implications
MEENAL CHAUDHARI has an M.Phil degree in psychology, but art took over when she bought a computer to write a book and began indulging in digital art. Even earlier when she was in college she dabbled in painting. She uses different soft wares to ... More
Incredible artefacts from Orissa
THE MAGNIFICENT craft heritage of Orissa comes alive at `The Great Orissa Arts and Crafts Mela' organised by Utkalika at Sri Sankara (Mini) Hall, 267, TTK road. From magnificent sandstone statues to the loveliest of filigree work itemsthe ... More

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