At First Malayalam Movie I viewed: Swathi Thirunal (1987)
Sri Padmanabha Dasa Vanchipala Sri Rama Varma, otherwise
called Swathi Thirunal Kulasekhara Perumal Maharaja, and significantly more
prominent as just Swathi Thirunal, was not just an all around regarded and
broadly known King of the State of Travancore, however keeps on being an
interminable Prince of Indian traditional music. A man with authority over
different dialects, he disparaged both Carnatic and Hindustani types of Indian
established music, created numerous a kritis, sang them himself, and compensated
vocalists and artists of notoriety from the nation over amid his rule.
Swathi
Thirunal Movie Poster
It is the flexible ruler's bicentennial birth commemoration
this year and what better event to at long last get hold of his biopic,
"Swathi Thirunal", a 1987 Malayalam Movie that I was chasing for more
than five years. With Kannada maestro Anant Nag assuming the lead part of
Swathi Thirunal, there was much to anticipate from the Movie, and I had just
seen looks of it on the web. Brilliant music with legends Dr. M. Balamurali
Krishna and K. J. Yesudas as playback artists was the other main consideration
not to miss this Movie. My first Malayalam film watching knowledge was entirely
great without a doubt - it was to a greater degree a musical, with almost no
requirement for exchanges as the music talked all through the Movie. The center
of the Movie likewise appeared to be on the ruler's craft support, in spite of
the fact that he was an incredible visionary and realized numerous changes, notwithstanding
presenting quality English training and allopathic drug to southern India. He
passed on at an exceptionally youthful age of 33, yet he had created more than
400 kritis by then in Sanskrit, Malayalam, Hindi and Kannada. One can just
ponder what incredible things he would have accomplished on the off chance that
he had lived longer. Be that as it may, on the other hand, extraordinary
individuals accomplish everything brief length - Adi Shankaracharya and Swami
Vivekananda additionally ring a bell.
Swathi
Thirunal Malayalam movie Details:
Directed by: Lenin
Rajendran
Screenplay by: Lenin
Rajendran
Starring :
Anant Nag, Srividya, Nedumudi Venu, Murali, Ambika,
Music by: M. B. Sreenivasan
Cinematography: Madhu Ambat
Edited by: Ravi
Production company: Chithranjali
Studios
Distributed by: Seven
Arts
Release dates: 4 September 1987
Running time: 133 minutes
Country :
India
Language: Malayalam
More on Swathi Thirunal's life and times, here: http://dontbecrude.com/video/swathi-thirunal-movie-songs.xhtml
Returning to the film, it was justified regardless of a
weekend evening's watch with commonly splendid acting of Anant Nag through
limited feelings, best seen amid the version of the Charukeshi gem "Kripaya
Palaya Shoure", and the best part of the Movie being a Jugalbandi between
Dr. M. Balamurali Krishna, K. J. Yesudas and Neyyattinkara Vasudevan, as the
tune "Pannagendra Shayana" (a padam made by Swathi Thirunal sung in
Ragamalika - 8 ragas for 8 yamas from sunset to sunrise in recognition of
master Ananthapadmanabha) took the viewer to a different universe.
Reign
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1813–1846
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1813
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Predecessor
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Gowri Lakshmi Bayi
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Regent
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Gowri Parvati Bayi(1815–1829)
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Successor
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Born
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16 April 1813
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Died
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27 December 1846(aged 33)
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Spouse
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Thiruvattar Ammachi Panapillai AmmaNarayani Pillai ,
Thiruvattar Ammachi Panapillai Amma Neelamma Pillai, Vadasseri Ammachi
Panapillai Amma Sundara Lakshmi Pillai
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Issue
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Thiruvattar Chithira Nal
Ananthapadmanabhan Chempakaraman Thampi
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Father
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Changanassery Lakshmipuram
Palace's Raja Raja Varma Valiya Koyi Thampuran
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Mother
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Religion
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Occupation
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Maharajah of Travancore,
Heriditary Head of Padmanabhaswamy Temple
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Old is gold, Nice Movie!
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