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Sangeetha Sangamam 2007 and Keralam - A Green Symphony was the latest superhit by Sangeetha of the UK

SJ Haris

Croydon: Sangeetha of the UK and Link Air proudly presented “Sangeetha Sangamam 2007” and the musical and dance drama “Keralam - A Green Symphony” in Croydon and Manchester and was major hits. The function in Manchester was held on Friday 5th October 2007 and in Croydon it was on last Sunday 7th October. Both venues witnessed a full house crowd and all are really enjoyed both shows. In Manchester it was only KS Chitra concert titled “Sangeetha Sangamam 2007”. The team consist of KS Chitra, Madhu Balakrishnan, Sayanora, Amritha superstar winner Job accompanied by Chitra’s professional orchestra team.The audience were fully enjoyed and each entrances by Chitra to the stage was applauded beyond our imaginations. The Manchester victory and the crowd’s full support raised the teams spirits so high and in Croydon the team performance reached maximum levels.

In Croydon, the function was held at Fairfield Halls, Ashcroft Theatre. The first part of the show was the musical dance drama ”Keralam - A Green Symphony”. This was a wonderful performance of the artistes from Croydon, Eastham and Kent. Over 65 artistes participated in the project and people were really thrilled each sequence of dance and visuals. The musical drama develops a few children in UK are in the mood of hearing stories of Kerala from Rappai Appuppan, played by S J Haris. Rappai Appuppan invites Paananar onto the stage, played by S Vijayakumar.

Paananar starts telling stories to children from how Kerala was created, the Parasurama Saga, Mahabali and Onam, Kathakali, arrival of British in Kerala, arrival of Irayimman Thampi and the famous lullaby in Malayalam “Omanathingalkkitavo nalla komalathamarappuvo”, how christianity reached in Kerala, Thomas Leeha, Trissur pooram, a brief origin of Muslims in Kerala and Vallamkali, the most enchanting facet of of the festival of Onam.

The artists involved in this musical drama were S Vijayakumar, S J Haris, CK Sujathan, Jolly, Premkumar, Pradeep, Subash, Muralidharan Pillai, Sajeem Ismail, Sundeep Sundaresan, Rajani George, Manoj Siva, J Panicker and the children section Ben Jacob, Sreena Nair, Pranav Pradeep, Azhar Haris, Ashiya Najeeb and Angela Chalamana and other 36 dancers from Croydon, Eastham and Kent.

The dances and drama part were so good and people have not even made a bad remark for the one and half hours dance drama. The artistes from Kerala were also watching this drama have had very good appraisals for the Sangeetha team effort in bringing out a production like this. They even said the whole team looks like professional and this reminds how beautiful Kerala is and invites the team to perform in Kerala. The dances were beautifully choreographed by Chitra Lakshmi and the whole event was managed by Prakash Ramaswamy. The full script and lyrics of this dance drama was Vayalar Santhosh Varma and Music by Perumbavoor G Raveendranath. The director for the “Keralam - A Green Symphony” was Abhilash Sudhakaran. The contibutions from Jayaprakash Panicker, S J Haris, S Vijayakumar, A Najeeb, Manu Chand, B Sundaresan, Suraja Prakash and C K Sujathan were immense to organise this grant event for uk malayalees.

The second part was KS Chitra concert and there was a jubilation mood in the crowd from start to end. The fast numbers from Sayanora nd Job were gone very well and was matched by the crowd’s perceptions. Both these events will stay in people’s mind for some time and whoever missed, they have missed so much from these two shows. To mark the 15th Anniversary of Sangeetha and to coincide with Sangeetha’s much awaited dream project “Keralam,- A Green Symphony” a souvenir titled “Padavukal” and a music CD of Keralam was released. The first copy of the souvenir and the cd was received by Malcolm Wicks MP, Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, from Jayaprakash Panicker, the Secretary of Sangeetha of The UK.

To receive the Sangeetha of the UK sovenir, please contact the Editor S J Haris on sjharis@hotmail.co.uk or text your address on 07931399221, or Abhilash Sudhakaran on 07795298570. “I am so glad to publish Sangeetha of the UK souvenir for the malayalee community based in UK. So much hard work and effort gone into make this publication of the souvenir. This souvenir is a reminder for the malayalee community to revive our rich cultural heritage. The souvenir has encouraged many children to write their own creative style of poems, short stories. I would like to appreciate the encouragement from all the Sangeetha officials to publish Sangeetha’s second souvenir in 15 years time” S J Haris adds. There were also wild life photo exhibition in Manchester and in Croydon by famous Kerala photographer M Balan.He is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society UK. To view photos click: http://sangeethauk.myphotoalbum.com

Sangeetha of the UK presentation

Sangeetha of the UK organised a get-together evening for all the participants of their project “Keralam – A Green Symphony” on Sunday 21st October 07 at Croydon St Saviours Church Hall.

The Keralam event was held at the Fairfields Hall on October 7. Certificates and presents were distributed by Councillors Bernadette Khan,G Premnath of Link Air travels, Shafi Khan and Manju Shahul Hameed to all the artistes and those who worked behind the scenes.

Councillor Nanoo Rajendren, Chitra Lekshmi, who choreographed the dances of the Keralam project were also present at the occasion. Sangeetha of the UK Croydon is planning to print a souvenir titled "PADAVUKAL" in the autumn 2007.

Those who would like to contribute articles in Malayalam or English, please contact S J Haris - 07933199221, S Abhilash - 07795298570 or C K Sujathan - 020 689 9140.

The matters must have common interest to UK Malayalees and the deadline to receive this by 15th May 2007.

For all other activities of Sangeetha or to contribute towards the charity work undertaken by Sangeetha of the UK please contact Jayaprakash Panicker - 07917361127, Prakash - 07786158579 or Najeeb - 07769940391.