3 4 5 DAY - 1 ( Sep )

SANKHYA presents Uma's Khata & The Lost Lullaby

Uma's Khata

Uma's Khata is a short story by Tagore set in 1898 in a small town of Bengal. Uma is a young girl who aspires to readwrite and learn against all odds of her era. Lovingly she's gifted a notebook of her own by her brother. This notebook becomes her best friend Uma's Khata. How does this friendship grow? 

Eesha Pinglay presents Khata.

Original story

Short stories by Rabindranath Tagore

Direction

Sushant jadhav 

Concept and choreography 

Eesha pinglay 

Script

Pracheta bhatt and Karthik Hebbar

Music composition and vocals

Karthik Hebbar

Percussion design mridangamghatam and ghanjira played by

Satish Krishnamurthy 

Flute

Maheshaswami

Light design

Sushant jadhav

Narration 

Swarada Bhave

Recorded at 

Omkar studio banglore

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Divya Warier a disciple of Guru Dr.Neena Prasad presents 'The Lost Lullaby'. Under the Direction and Mentorship of Guru Sharmila Biswas .

The lost Lullaby- 

Hidimbi a Rakshasi, a Yakshi, who married Bhima, a kshatriya prince. She is the senior most queen of the pandavas, Bhima's Beloved,a mother and shikshaguru to Gatotgach who raised him alone.

She is not the typical demonish woman, grotesque, loud, or heavy footed. We see her as a light footed, agile, full of life, innocent, animalistic natured individual. Devoid of Aryan knowledge of morality, but implanted with the wisdom of the animal world.

What is the dynamic relation between her and Ghatotghach?

What was this Mayavi Mother's loss?

We will see motherhood through the eyes of a mother devoid of any stereotypes and classifications

Credits: 

Mentored & directed by Guru. Sharmila Biswas

Choreography - Divya Warier

Music support team: 

Udupi S Srinath - Vocals and Music Direction

Satish Krishnamurthy - Rhythm Direction and Mridangam, Udukka, Ganjira & Nattuvangam 

Soundara Rajan - Veena

Udupi Srijith - Violin

Sajith Pappan - Edakka

Trivandrum Sreekumar- Flute

Research : Divya Warier & Sharmila Biswas

Lyrics :Translation of Bengali Poem: Dr.M.Chandrasekharan Nair 

Chir Sakha- Padam - Himanshu Srivastava

Costume Design: Dr. Neena Prasad

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Light Design: Sushant Jadav

Project Production: Warrier Foundation under the aegis of Pratiroop- Cross mentorship Series! Later premiered for Rasa bodhi arts foundation - Padmini festival