Going through the navarasas I am particularly drawn to one emotion i.e Karuna (Compassion, Empathy, Sympathy). To think about this emotion, i feel it is the most difficult one to express. Pain unless felt from within perhaps cannot be emoted like any of the other rasas. Somehow, I am allured by the way one can express it and the way that it connects to the audience. It is an intriguing emotion, a state of mind that one can imagine but perhaps dread to go through. Somehow I am in love with this bhavam, I dont enjoy being melancholic but yes I enjoy depicting it.
One of the padams closest to my heart is Panimathi Mukhi bale, a padam that oozes melancholy, a feel of despair , pain and anguish.The nayika speaks to her best friend and an intermediary between the Lord himself and the nayika about how the Lord has forgotten her and how he does not think of her, all that in contrast to the feeling of her own. She cries her heart out, and feels the pangs of love but the Lord doesn't realise or doesn't still come to meet her.
The song is set to Ahiri ragam and the song just takes you to another world where you can only see her love for the lord and her pain and sorrow.I have performed this item many times and have received appreciation from many but each time I perform this item , I feel I walk a step further to her , to being the Nayika and still feel there is so much to feel to actually be "Her"
One of the padams closest to my heart is Panimathi Mukhi bale, a padam that oozes melancholy, a feel of despair , pain and anguish.The nayika speaks to her best friend and an intermediary between the Lord himself and the nayika about how the Lord has forgotten her and how he does not think of her, all that in contrast to the feeling of her own. She cries her heart out, and feels the pangs of love but the Lord doesn't realise or doesn't still come to meet her.
The song is set to Ahiri ragam and the song just takes you to another world where you can only see her love for the lord and her pain and sorrow.I have performed this item many times and have received appreciation from many but each time I perform this item , I feel I walk a step further to her , to being the Nayika and still feel there is so much to feel to actually be "Her"
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