Cultural feast on offer for 111 days
The Hindu
Soorya festival begins on December 20 with a mega show
Curtains will go up on the 111-day Soorya festival on Monday, with the Agni-2 mega show at Tagore Theatre. The show will be a tribute to musicians Raveendran, Johnson, S.P. Balasubramaniam, and R.D. Burman. This will be the 44th consecutive year of the festival, which showcases dance, music, drama, and cinema.
Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Mullakkara Ratnakaran will deliver a lecture on Ramayana, spread over five days from December 21 at Ganesham in Thycaud. Malayalam film Kasiminte Kadal, directed by Shyamaprasad, will also be screened on the same day. On December 26, Governor Arif Mohammed Khan will take part in a cultural meet, which will be organised in honour of poet Sugathakumari. Poets Sreekumaran Thampi, Gireesh Puliyoor, Anitha Thampy, and Murukan Kattakkada will take part in the Kaviyarangu. A short film on Sugathakumari, directed by M.R.Rajan, will also be screened.
In other events till December 31, there will be a violin performance by Roopa Revathy, Hindustani performance by Sreenath Nair, rhythmic melodies by Soumya Sanathanan, Carnatic music performance by Chinmaya sisters, and Hindustani performance by Dev Anand. In the lecture series, historian M.G. Sasibhooshan, writer Hameed Chendamangaloor, poet Alancode Leelakrishnan, and poet and former Chief Secretary K. Jayakumar will speak. An Odisha handicrafts mela will be organised.
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