Capital performance.
The same enquiring look and the same winsome smile .Age has not dimmed the beauty nor has it robbed the yester year numero one of Hindi films, of her spirit and energy.
The spring in the dance sequence 'Chadhuriam pesadhadi yen salagaikku padil solladi'of the Tamil film Vanchikotai valiban and in the 'Chado gayo papi bichua 'of the film Madhumati has not diminished though the yawning gap of years ,nay decades from then and now ought to have.
For all the movie fame sorrounding the dansuse there was not the slightest trace of filmy gestures in the dance recital i attended today in the ongoing, now,the world famous marghazhi [dec-jan] music and dance festival in Chennai,It was purely classical bharat natyam.
Except for the slightly stooping shoulders and sagging arms ,76 years rests very lightly on the tall and graceful frame of Smt Vaijayathimala/bali.
I held my breath and could sense others in the packed hall doing the same when she whirled around , bowed touching the ground and bent and sat in postures many a younger woman dancers would have found daunting , hoping that she wouldn't trip. She didn't.Neither did she miss a step.Sterling stuff that only legends are made of.
When she rounded off her energetic ,yet graceful performance after an hour and a half . an performance that by itself warned the highly appreciative audience not to patronise her for her advanced years but only the performing artist in her ,pausing a few minutes at the mike to voice her regret ,with a catch in her voice at the untimely departure of that young woman at Delhi ,condemning the brutality of that barbaric act and requesting every one [fair sprinkling of youngsters amongst the largely greying ones]in there to join her in pressing for the severest of severe punishment viz capital for ruthless rapists ,the entire hall rose to give her an standing ovation .For her performance, her undying spirit and her sensitivity and continuing involvement in matters other that the one that is so very obviously close to her heart, - dancing.
The spring in the dance sequence 'Chadhuriam pesadhadi yen salagaikku padil solladi'of the Tamil film Vanchikotai valiban and in the 'Chado gayo papi bichua 'of the film Madhumati has not diminished though the yawning gap of years ,nay decades from then and now ought to have.
For all the movie fame sorrounding the dansuse there was not the slightest trace of filmy gestures in the dance recital i attended today in the ongoing, now,the world famous marghazhi [dec-jan] music and dance festival in Chennai,It was purely classical bharat natyam.
Except for the slightly stooping shoulders and sagging arms ,76 years rests very lightly on the tall and graceful frame of Smt Vaijayathimala/bali.
I held my breath and could sense others in the packed hall doing the same when she whirled around , bowed touching the ground and bent and sat in postures many a younger woman dancers would have found daunting , hoping that she wouldn't trip. She didn't.Neither did she miss a step.Sterling stuff that only legends are made of.
When she rounded off her energetic ,yet graceful performance after an hour and a half . an performance that by itself warned the highly appreciative audience not to patronise her for her advanced years but only the performing artist in her ,pausing a few minutes at the mike to voice her regret ,with a catch in her voice at the untimely departure of that young woman at Delhi ,condemning the brutality of that barbaric act and requesting every one [fair sprinkling of youngsters amongst the largely greying ones]in there to join her in pressing for the severest of severe punishment viz capital for ruthless rapists ,the entire hall rose to give her an standing ovation .For her performance, her undying spirit and her sensitivity and continuing involvement in matters other that the one that is so very obviously close to her heart, - dancing.
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