Melattur bhagavatha Mela

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rajeshnat
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Melattur bhagavatha Mela

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Writeup on June 01st,2018 in The Hindu on Melattur Bhagavatha Mela . I am assuming this dance drama music can be fusion at its best . I never knew that even sadguru Thyagaraja has witnessed one of this performance. I am assuming in malayalam the kathakali padam or soppana sangeetham may come close to this and for tamil this may be the nearest equivalent . I am atleast recollecting now some writeups that jayan (braindrain)wrote

Has any one even seen/heard this troupe ? Any first hand report of this experience of melattur bhagavatha mela. THe fact that you go to a village and stay awake from 10 pm to 1Am to listen to some thing intense excites me

http://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/t ... 046867.ece

the_ARTery
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Re: Melattur bhagavatha Mela

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rajeshnat wrote: 01 Jun 2018, 09:05Has any one even seen/heard this troupe ? Any first hand report of this experience of melattur bhagavatha mela.
Of course!
They have been presenting this brilliantly for ages in Melattur, and The ARTery had the honour of presenting them at our annual festival Svatantra in Chennai in 2016. Pls see the archived video of the performance at our website:

http://theartery.in/webcasts/svatantra-2016/

bhakthim dehi
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Re: Melattur bhagavatha Mela

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Saint Tyagaraja and RI Venkataramana Sastri were contemporaries. Giriraja Kavi, grandfather of Tyagaraja involved himself with Bhagavatha mela. On all possibilities, he might have witnessed. But we don't have any direct references, to my knowledge.

rajeshnat
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Re: Melattur bhagavatha Mela

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Bhagavata Mela: The drama unfolds at Melattur write up in THe Hindu dated May 20th,2022.

https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/ ... epage=true

thanjavooran
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Had the opportunity to enjoy during 1962. Thanks for the share.
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22 05 2022

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