The recently held 50th edition of state school youth festival in the district has certainly showed how to report an event without knowing even ABCD of it. Luckily in our office the practice of assiging duty for reporters is not there. The worst were the Journos in Malayalam newspapers. They didn't had even time to study the items before reporting. We ourself picked the dance and music items we liked the most to cover. So I took the events in which I had knowledge and staged during my school days. So that there wont be much problem for it. But still love for Ottamthulal made me to opt for that event. I have watched Ottamthullal only on DD. Well, my decision of cover Ottamthulal had proved heavily for me due to the language problem . Sheer facination for the art form and confidence in me made me to take an extreme step of attempt to write about the event.
I rarely speaks with journos in other Media as I always fear that they might take my words in wrong way after hearing my Malayalam language. I was born and brought up in Kasargod where we use the medium of local Malayalam language for communication. That too rarely. Plus my parents and most of our family members were studied in Kannada medium. And whoever we communicate using either Kannada or the Tulu language. So I hardly made any effort to improve or understand the original Malayalam language.
As you know, Ottamthullal popularly known as the `Poor man's Kathakali' has a single actor, donning a green make-up and wearing colouful costumes. The artists recites the Thullal lyrics while acting and dancing himself on stage. For me it was difficult one as they never gave introduction for the performance they going to enact on the stage. My very little knowledge in Malayalam made me difficult even to follow the reciting of songs even after I went there to report the event after thorough preparation. Somehow I managed to write and I even wrote a feature on Kalamandalam Geethanandan who had trained more than 500 students to reach the state school youth festival for the New Indian Express special pull out.
Well, that day I decided to learn the Malayalam language in depth. Hmmm, experience in life make us learn and grow.
I rarely speaks with journos in other Media as I always fear that they might take my words in wrong way after hearing my Malayalam language. I was born and brought up in Kasargod where we use the medium of local Malayalam language for communication. That too rarely. Plus my parents and most of our family members were studied in Kannada medium. And whoever we communicate using either Kannada or the Tulu language. So I hardly made any effort to improve or understand the original Malayalam language.
As you know, Ottamthullal popularly known as the `Poor man's Kathakali' has a single actor, donning a green make-up and wearing colouful costumes. The artists recites the Thullal lyrics while acting and dancing himself on stage. For me it was difficult one as they never gave introduction for the performance they going to enact on the stage. My very little knowledge in Malayalam made me difficult even to follow the reciting of songs even after I went there to report the event after thorough preparation. Somehow I managed to write and I even wrote a feature on Kalamandalam Geethanandan who had trained more than 500 students to reach the state school youth festival for the New Indian Express special pull out.
Well, that day I decided to learn the Malayalam language in depth. Hmmm, experience in life make us learn and grow.
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