My Wife & Pawan Are My Most Fav Persons: Trivikram

Trivikram Srinivas’ wife Soujanya Srinivas performed her Kuchipudi dance in front of a large crowd the other day in Hyderabad’s Shilpa Kala Vedika. Mrs Trivikram has mesmerized with her emphatic performance for Meenakshi Kalyanam. For which Trivikram’s close friend and actor Pawan Kalyan was the chief guest among several other prominent dignitaries from various fields.

After her wife’s stunning performance, Trivikram in his trademark speech said, “Two are my most favourite people. One is my wife Soujanya and the second is my dear friend Pawan Kalyan. While one is performing live, the other sat next to me. This evening was great and memorable to me. What best I could’ve asked for?”

Later, Pawan Kalyan addressed Mrs Trivikram Srinivas as his sister. He appreciated her and her Kuchipudi dance ballet. “I feel honoured to have watched Soujanya Srinivas’ Meenakshi Kalyanam come to life on the stage. I convey my heartfelt respect to the writer Bhamidipally Narasimha Murthy and dancer Pasumarthy Ramalinga Sastry. It’s the second time I’m watching a dance presentation choreographed by Pasumarthy garu (the earlier act was also performed by Ms Sounjanya). This may be a venue where the film events are usually held but I was caught by surprise noticing the audience’s response to the ballet. It’s important to remember our roots, traditions and I congratulate the entire team for reminding us of our core. It felt like the Gods descended onto the earth with the performances,” Pawan Kalyan said.

Scripted by Bhamidipally Narasimha Murthy (Bnim), the ballet was choreographed by noted dancer Pasumarthy Ramalinga Sastry, set to the music of DVS Sastry. The larger-than-life presentation brought the intriguing legend behind the matrimony of Meenakshi and Lord Sundareshwar onto the stage. Soujanya Srinivas was elegance-personified with her abhinaya as Parvati and her incarnation as Meenakshi, staying true to her word of being born as the daughter of her devotee Vidyavati in her next birth.

The performance was a perfect melange of tradition and technique, enhanced by the innovative use of live music, props, costumes and special effects. Gopika Purnima and Pasumarthy Padma’s enriching vocals set the tone perfectly for the ballet. Among the more gripping moments in the presentation revolved around the sequence where Shiva and Parvati dance in unison, before they take birth as Sundareshwar and Meenakshi.