Harinie Jeevitha’s ‘Varadarajam Upasmahe’ had all the artistic elements in the right proportion
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Harinie Jeevitha’s ‘Varadarajam Upasmahe’ had all the artistic elements in the right proportion

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Gaana Nritya Academy, Mangaluru, presented the Chennai-based Bharatanatyam dancer Harinie Jeevitha’s performance ‘Varadarajam Upasmahe’ to a full house. This presentation included compositions such as ‘Varadaraja ninnu kori vachithi’, Dikshithar’s ‘Varadarajam upasmahe’ in Saranga and many Sanskrit shlokas, Telugu songs and Tamil pasurams. Harinie concluded her presentation with the charama shloka from the Bhagavad Gita, ‘Sarva dharmaan parityaja’ that ends with the words ‘Maa shucha:’. The recorded orchestra was of high quality — her guru Sheela Unnikrishnan’s nattuvangam, Srikanth Gopalakrishnan’s emotional-laden singing, Guru Bharadwaaj on the mridangam, Nandini Saigiridhar on the violin, B. Muthukumar Anjani Srinivasan and Sankara Sastrigal.

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