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Maha Chetana’ prasanga presented

Published On : 28 May 2017   |  Reported By : canaranews network


Mangaluru: A revised version of the first yakshagana prasanga on Jesus Christ — Maha Chetana Yesukrista Mahatme — was released at a function at Don Bosco Hall, on Saturday. Rev Dr. Aloysius Paul D’Souza, Bishop of Mangaluru, who released the prasanga written by Muliya Keshavayya, said that fine arts have the capacity to unite people. Art forms, including Yakshagana, were beyond the boundaries of religion, caste and language.

Anandarama Upadhya, a critic and Yakshagana expert, said that the prasanga had all the ‘rasas’. Yakshagana literature was yet to receive the recognition it deserved. Raghu Muliya, son of Keshavayya, said that the new version has commentaries for 200 songs in the original script.

Dr. Gowda of Mangalore University, explained the niceties of yakshagana as applied to unconventional subjects and lauded the developer of this episode. He said the people with narrow out look find fault without proper knowledge. He also stated that The story of Christ from the Bible had all the elments of a good yakshagana presentation and it has proved so often.

The episode commences with the biblical version of the battle between the good angels Michael and Gabriel and the bad angel Luciefer. The story of Herod and sermon on the mount and such parables presented all the elements of the art such as humour, preaching the good life and also gave ample scope to point to the problems faced by modern society, which the author has skillfully untilised to put together a lively Yakshagana Talamaddale.

Author and Master Muliya Keshavayya was felicitated by several. rev Mark Valder a senior catholic priest of Mangaluru and an author was present and spoke on the goodness of the book and ’prasanga’.
The script was translated into English and German during 1977-78, and has been presented at various venues over more than 30 years and has been well accepted all over.







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