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After completing MBBS,
he was engaged in post-graduate studies and healing human bodies when he
felt a compelling urge to explore the dynamics of the mind and body.
Bharathanatyam was the tool he chose to dwell on the mind and body. His
sojourn started under the tutelage of Guru Smt. Narmada of Bangalore, one of
the earliest disciples of Guru K.P.Kittappa Pillai. The initial desire to
unravel the mind-body-spirit through the medium of classical dance soon
became a passion, which was to compete with his passion for the medical
profession. This was the stage when he made the choice: He would pursue the
medical profession to reach out to people to help and heal their bodies and
pursue with equal commitment the passion for dance to reach out to people
to heal their minds.
Ever since his
Arangetram( Debut Performance) in 1989, He has demonstrated exemplary skills
in both nritta, the pure dance form and abhinaya, the mimetic form. His
talent was further nurtured by Padmabhushan Smt. Kalanidhi Narayanan,
abhinaya doyenne. He has enthralled the audiences in various parts of
India, the US and Australia with “facile grace married to perfection of
movement and inordinate leonine beauty in form’. Several critics have
specifically mentioned his “usage of the primed body for amazing body
patterns and creation of new vocabulary of movement where grace is never
divorced from technique”.
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