Akshay Kumar recently shared a picture of himself dressed as a Kathakali dancer ahead of the release of Kesari 2. In the film he will be portraying the role of C Sankaran Nair, a lawyer and statesman.

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Kathakali is an ancient, highly stylized dance form from southern India, a combination of storytelling and performance. The dancers paint their faces in bright colors to reveal the gamut of human ...

I was also influenced by the highly stylised make-up. I started Kathakali in the year 1990 and there has been no looking back since then. God destined me to become a Kathakali dancer.

But Ragini’s long cherished dream to visit Kerala, the home of Kathakali, was fulfilled when she received an invitation from the Maharaja of Travancore to dance in the Arts Festival.

Once a thriving mode of story-telling, Kathakali, one of the most recognized dance forms from India has been reduced to a tourist gimmick that exists merely to adorn colourful tourist brochures ...

On the second day of Sindhu Dance Festival 2019, famous Kathakali dancer Guru Kalashri Kalamandalam C. Gopalkrishnan performed a Kathakali drama called 'Duryodhan Vadham' On the second day of ...

Kathakali green room with a new view As the lockdown ends and Kathakali shows resume, the back-room experts reveal how the dance form’s elaborate costume and make-up has moved with the times ...

BANGALORE: Kathakali, the ancient dance form of Kerala, appears to have quite a few takers in Bangalore. Some would like to see performances while others want to learn it. Although many art forms ...

K.P. Kunhiraman, one of the world's foremost artists of Indian kathakali dance, was to be honored - along with his wife, Katherine - Saturday at the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. But on ...