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 ...

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 ...

It was in the early 1980s. I happened to be at Vellinezhi village, a cultural hub of central Kerala. In the late afternoon, at Kanthalloor Agrasala, there was a gathering of the cognoscenti and the ...

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 ...

If Kamal Haasan is helping revive the dance form Theyyam in Uttama Villain, forthcoming Tamil thriller Kallappadam will do the same for the native art form Koothu.

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 ...

KOCHI: Chakyar Koothu is one of those rare art forms from the traditional Sanskrit theatre which exists today. One of the names synonymous with Koothu is that of Kalamandalam Rama Chakyar, who is an ...

Chennai: Na. Muthuswamy, founder and director of Koothu-P-Pattarai, a renowned Tamil theatre group, passed away due to age-related ailments here at 11.30 am on Wednesday. He was 83. A no-nonsense ...

Oru Naal Koothu is the debut film by director Nelson Venkatesan and it takes up a topic that is very poignant in this day and age. The movie features three women in three different lead and ...

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 ...