Posted by Sangeetha on December 11, 2007 at 02:39:07:

 In Reply to: Re: musings posted by Hemamalini J. on December 09, 2007 at 06:59:40:

 Dear Hemamalini,
Good points you have raised here.
But most of the points in the checklist are with respect to the initial visual perceptions. A person may have all these and still not give you any rasanubhava. The other day in the Bharathanatyam orkut there was one group talking about the fact that spritual satisfaction/rasa comes from watching slightly mature performers performing abhinaya pieces. Personally for me, rasanubhava arises when watching mature performers, a few of whom might even be just miming the songs out. There was a time when nritta appealed to me -not so much anymore... I can never compare this with how I am moved when watching Sri.Dhanajayan as Nandanar, or Smt.Chitra do Srinivasan Perumai, or When Sri.Kelucharan Mahapatra did his astapathis...
I would love to hear from more people as to whether they like such Abhinaya rich slow pieces without much nritta too... Or am I so alone in this fast track world..In fact the youngsters are so good technically, no doubt about that. But I am sure there are times when you look for much more than techincal perfection and visual excellence, isn't it?
 
 

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