Kathakali from Gods own country!

Yes kathakali is from God's own country .
Kerala is the home of several dance drama forms and kathakali is one of the most popular dance drama forms

And the war between the Good and Evil is never ending In the battle of one’ s life
Where Gods and Demons come to play ....that is what Kathakali all about.
An actor with a red mask is evil and he usually represents Ravana , Dushasana etc.An actor with green mask represents good usually representing Arjuna , Krishna , Rama etc

Today's theme was not Good Vs Evil , today's theme was Krishna -Rukmini Romance and it was awesome..

Initially Kathakali was performed in temples and it is majorly a temple martial art , now popular all over the world
A blend of art , music and acting to dramatize a story

At NDK Kalyana Mantapa Indiranagar
Conducted by the Kerala Nair community .





The Traditional Nairs and Pillai’s of Kerala were professionally warriors (Kshatriya) who were trained in Martial Art and exercises . A Kshatriya should always represent excellence as a warrior, should represent Good over Evil. In this case there is no evil , but evil was In the Mind of the character , hence both the characters are green in colour else red always represents evil and green represents good.

And the romance begins..





The story is that Krishna and Rukmini make love to bring a new creature a new very small life  into the world..Isn't that so cute..





Me with Krishna, iam always on the side of Green representing Good..


Kathakali unlike other dance forms became very popular in the world because  the artist spends his entire life learning the philosophy of ancient Indian Epics known as Ramayana and Mahabharata making the artist a man who not only knows dance and art but also understands Indian History and Culture making Kathakali the capital of all Theater forms of the entire world 

The roots of Kathakali are In temples and folk arts of Kerala can also be found in ancient Sanskrit text books



The Dancer expresses himself through the facial expressions along with the feet movement.
Make up applied from herbs .






2 singers from behind provide the vocal accompaniment


I was clicking pics and looking at Rukmini's face , i felt that she was angry  of me for clicking pics lol..


Costumes are character distinctive  and the music at the background is carnatic





2 music instrument known as Chanda and Maddalam






If he was my boy friend , probably i would have already had 3 childrens
1.Krishna 2.Arjuna and 3.Dhana Veera shura Karna ...lol.....







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