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CINEMA

Overkill dilutes the impact
The 46th Semana Internacional de Cine, in Valladolid, Spain, offered few challenges to the serious viewer, says GOWRI RAMNARAYAN. More


INTERVIEW
From beauty pageant to celluloid
Making her silver screen debut through a Tamil film, Priyanka Chopra, Miss World 2000, is confident that she will win people's hearts. S. R. ASHOK KUMAR writes. More
In celebration of a theatre icon
There was a totality in the way the tribute to writer N. Muthuswamy was conceived at The Other Festival, observes KAUSALYA SANTHANAM. More
FILM REVIEW
MUSIC
Acoustics heightens stridency
A HOST of cloth banners in different shades and names receive the audience in the small hall. The Chennai December music season demands more halls and auditoria for their innumerable concert series. An obscure hall like the ``Swami's Hall" on ... More
Soulful and satisfying
EVEN THE hardiest admirer of Madurai Mani's style of music and his use of odd syllables like ``Tarata'', ``La Va'' and so on during the alapanas might be wondering whether his nephew-pupil T. V. Sankaranarayanan did not indulge in their excessive ... More
Lesson from the veteran's bow
T. N. KRISHNAN, in his solo violin concert for SAFE (Shanti Arts Foundation and Endowments) took the rasikas on a pilgrimage to Tiruvaiyaru through five beautiful Tyagaraja kirtanas in a row. That a vidwan of his stature with six decades of ... More
Factors combine in their favour
A VOCAL concert is a product of several factors — background of the main artistes and their public image, state of their voices, assigned time of day and duration, composition of the programme, the accompanists, and the ability to harness ... More
A mixed bag of concerts
SINGING IN the afternoon slot on December 7, young Harish made a bold attempt to do a raga alapana in Bahudari (``Brovabarama") and it was good in patches. With more training and practice the voice should mellow down and improve. Niraval and ... More
More dazzling than memorable
Glory of Namasankeerthanam
Singing contest
Interesting tarangams
Music festival
Novel experiment in sound

DANCE
Sans new interpretations
THE PROGRAMME announced that the show ``combines classical dance, story telling and mime to explore the perception of Shakti.'' A description which can be applied to several works produced by many artistes in the different classical dance genres ... More
A new experience
FRAGILITY, CHOREGRAPHED by Padmini Chettur and danced by her and three other dancers, Krishna Devanandan, Sujata Goel and Malini Srinivasan was a totally new experience for the Chennai audience. Chennai has had limited exposure to contemporary ... More

THEATRE
Fine blend of drama and dance
SHAKESPEARE AND Kathakali? Strange combination? Not really when you think of the dramatic elements in both. The play of emotions, the feel for theatrics and the same sense of the positive winning over the negative. In this case since it was ... More

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