How monsoon influences artistes to come up with ingenious analyses

Pt. Madhup Mudgal at the two-day Varsha Mangal celebration 2023 that included music and dance efficiencies by senior artistes.|Picture Credit: Special Arrangement The monsoon has actually constantly motivated poets, painters, and artists. Be it the Sanskrit poetry of Kalidasa and Amaru or the Hindi poetry of Bhakti-kaal, the mini paintings of Moghul, Kangra, or the Rajput, or the monsoon raags of Hindustani music, particularly the numerous ranges of Malhar; they are all taken in the charm of rain. The state of mind and colours of the season were brought alive at ‘Varsha-Mangal’, a celebration of music and dance, arranged by Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra at the Kamani auditorium in Delhi. The two-day celebration concluded with an attractive images of monsoon portrayed through Kathak, with Prerana Shrimali using up popular Hindi poet Dev’s verses, ‘Jhahari jhahari jhini boondani parati mano/gahari gahari ghata gheri hai gagan mein’ to represent both the sanyog (conference) and viyog (separartion) shringar. The nayika imagine Krishna welcoming her to rest on the swing with him throughout rains. She wakes up to discover neither ghana (clouds) nor Ghanashyam (Krishna), however simply tears in her eyes. Kathak efficiency by Prerana Shrimali at the two-day Varsha Mangal celebration, kept in New Delhi, 2023.|Image Credit: Special Arrangement Visual appealThe harmonic alap of Megh-Malhar on the flute caught the feeling in the poetry as Prerana got in as virahini nayika and danced to the bandish ‘Ghanan ghanan garaje badariya’ set to vilambit Teentaal. Visuals of clouds collecting came through in thaat and amad, while the ‘sam’ struck as lightning. The bandish became the musical refrain or lehera for the nritta passages portraying nature’s bounty throughout Barkha ritu. In the abhinaya sector, Prerna as an abhisarika nayika goes to satisfy her cherished in the middle of thunder and rains. The air was heavy with petrichor. As she carefully searches for at the clouds raindrops fall on her face. A bandish of Pt. Kumar Gandharva was selected for this piece. She changes to drut Ektaal to reveal the motion of the swing in the mango grove. The used the Mayur Gat record the appeal of the peacock
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