The day has ended for some but is only beginning for others in a village near Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu. It’s time for a Koothu performance. The clowns are the first to arrive, each one spinning like ...

The entire village is gathered at the temple mandapam to watch a koothu performance based on the Ramayana. The programme goes late into the night and the actors decide to wind-up at the point where ...

CHENNAI: While many scenes from the Mahabharata can be related to incidents today, there is one episode and a character that haven’t caught the contemporary imagination — Abhimanyu (Arjuna’s son) who ...

The stream of classical music and dance continues to flow through the city sabhas, but outside, the villages of TN -from Kancheepuram to Vizhupuram -are getting set for a season of Kattaikoothu ...

Even as Covid-19 has brought down curtains on live performances robbing stage artists of livelihood, it has sped up digital transformation in the field. Several veterans, as well as amateurs, have ...

Director J Vadivel says Kallappadam, a story about how first-timers try and make a film, is a tribute to Koothu, which is almost forgotten. If Kamal Haasan is helping revive the dance form Theyyam in ...

SS Rajamouli’s latest magnum opus film ‘RRR’ has won great reviews and joined the list of India’s top-grossing films in just 10 days. Starring Jr NTR as Komaram Bheem, Ram Charan as Alluri Sita Rama ...

In the first-ever staging of Chakyar Koothu as part of the lec-dems at the Music Academy, noted exponent Rama Chakyar enacted an excerpt from ‘Panchali Swayamvaram.’ His demonstration was highlighted ...

Actor Vimal’s next, titled Koothu, has actors Prasanna, Richard, Bharani, Arundhati and Nandhagi in important roles, and is set to hit screens in October. Directed by Padmamagan, who has Ammuvagiya ...

The translation does no justice to this tongue twister but the song is one raising a minor storm on YouTube. Composed and sung by Christopher Pradeep for the World Cup, it’s ambitiously titled Knock U ...