Remembering the genius of Tagore

Two young sisters, Prakruti and Divya Hoskere, paid a wonderful tribute to Rabindranath Tagore.

A delightful evening of music and puppetry awaited one and all as the ‘Hoskere Sisters’ and the Dhaatu Puppet Theatre presented a great amalgamation of bharatanatyam and puppetry at the Indiranagar Sangeetha Sabha during the weekend.

Organised as a tribute to Rabindranath Tagore on the occasion of his 150th birth
anniversary, the evening saw a wonderful bharatanatyam performance by the two young sisters — Prakruti and Divya Hoskere.

In addition to the graceful performance of these two sisters, the evening also had a colourful puppet show, presented by the Dhaatu Puppet Theatre and directed by Anupama Hoskere. 

After a formal lamp lighting session by Usha Venkateshwaran, the director of Natyalakshana Akademy, who had conceptualised the entire programme, the
two dancers were called on stage.

Their mother Anupama Hoskere and teacher Praveen Kumar was honoured on stage as well.

After all the formalities, the two girls started the show and mesmerised one and all with their dance moves.

The dancers started with a salutation to Mother Earth and a dedication to Lord
Vigneshwara.

They beautiful moved to the tunes and beats of Raag Amritavarshini and Adi Taala.

The second piece was dedicated to love and portrayed the beauty of Shiva and Shakthi.
Divya, a student of class nine at Sri Kumaran’s Children’s Home, and
Prakruti, who is pursuing architecture at the BMS College of Engineering, had the audience captivated with their coordination and moves.

After a few more graceful performances, it was time for the puppet show to mesmerise the audience.

Performed by the Dhaatu Puppet Theatre, this show not only provided a connecting link between bharatanatyam and puppetry but also proved to be the perfect tribute to Tagore as it consisted of select poems from Tagore’s Geetanjali.

This was directed by Anupama Hoskere.However, the audience’s joy knew no bounds when they learnt that the great grandson of Rabindranath Tagore was also a part of the show.

Sunandan Lala, whose mother Nandini Tagore was the granddaughter of Tagore, was invited as the special guest and was truly delighted to be a part of the event.

“It’s a great pleasure and honour to be a part of this august gathering. It’s very heartening to see you taking Tagore seriously and promoting him.

He has written songs for all moods and seasons and used to simply adore nature,” he said.

To sum it all, it was truly an evening to remember for the dance and art-lovers of the City.