Indian Classics

================================================================================================================= Sunday 23, February 2025, 09:00. Bharatham Dance Mohiniyattam Pallavi Krishnan   Mohiniyattam Dancer ================================================================================ Introductin: Pallavi Krishnan is a leading exponent of the dance form, Mohiniyattam. She received the Sangeet Natak Academi award for 2022 in Mohiniyattam from president Murmu. ==================================================================================== Early life and education: Krishnan hails from Durgapur, Bengal but after her post-graduate studies in Kerala, she settled in Thrissur. She did her B.Sc. in Bioscience from Burdwan University of West Bengal. But she had no interest in academics and wanted to study dance. So she did a second under-graduate degree, B.Music from Shantiniketan in Kathakali, Manipuri and Rabindra Sangeeth, Viswa Bharathi University. She was spotted by ...

  =================================================================================================== Thursday 20, February 2025, 17:00. Urmila Sathyanarayanan:  Bharatanatyam Exponent & Founder of Natya Sankalpaa =================================================================================== About Urmila: Urmila Sathyanarayanan is among the most inspired and dedicated Bharatanatyam exponents of  her generation. Nimble movements and pristine purity of her expressions, helped by her intrinsic charisma and irrepressible cheerfulness, create spellbinding magic, holding the watcher in  thrall. Her dedication to dance is total and Bharatanatyam is richer by her experience, expertise and  most importantly devotion.   As a precocious child she had her initial training under noted Guru Padmashri  K.N.Dandayuthapani Pillai and was later groomed by Guru Kalaimamani Smt. K.J. Sarasa.   ​Concurrently Urmila also had University education and ...

  ============================================================================ S aturday 30, November 2024, 11:30 Uthara Unnikrishnan- Classical singe r ================================================================================ About: Uthara Unnikrishnan: Born - 11 June 2004 (age 20) Years active - 2012–present Uthara Unnikrishnan (born 2004) is an Indian playback singer. In 2015, she won the National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer at the 62nd National Film Awards for her rendition of the song "Azhagu" from the 2014 Tamil film Saivam, a family drama directed by A. L. Vijay. She received the award at the age of 10, becoming its youngest recipient. =========================================================================== Biography: Uthara Unnikrishnan is the daughter of Carnatic classical singer P. Unni Krishnan and Bharatanatyam dancer Priya Unnikrishnan. Her father, a recipient of multiple National Film Awards for Best Male Playback Singer, received his ...

============================================================================== Saturday 09, November 2024, 10:15. Priya R. Pai - Singer, music teacher. ============================================================================== Background information: Born 3 February 1976 (age 48).  Idukki, Kerala, India Genres Playback singing, Carnatic music Occupation(s) Singer, music teacher ============================================================================ Introduction: Priya R. Pai is a Carnatic vocalist, composer and playback singer. She is the host of musical TV show Layatharang on Kairali we channel. She is famous for Karnatic-western fusion music and has released five albums. On the album Harshamo Dukhamo she sang poems by former minister Binoy Viswam. She also sings and composes devotional and Classical songs. She has more than 1000 recorded songs in various Indian languages including Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Sanskrit, Hindi, Konkani, and Marathi.She is condu...