Bharatanatyam dancer Srishti Budhori stole everyone’s hearts on the second day of the three-day Annual Youth Festival of Dance hosted by Kalasagaram Secunderabad at Keyes High School for girls on Saturday last. Disciple of Gurus V S Ramamoorthy and Manjula Ramaswamy, Shrishti, a medical student, began the evening’s proceedings with an invocation to Goddess Saraswathi.
The invocation followed with an ode to Lord Murugan. Srishti showed her classical skills in emoting Murugan Kauthuvam , set in Shanmukha Priya ragam set in Adi talam.
The central piece of the evening was varnam devoted to goddess Meenakshi. Presenting the Tamil composition of Harikeshavan Madhavan, set in Kamas , Mathe Malaya dhwaja … the young dancer did her gurus proud in Nritta, Natya and Nritya . Be it the portrayal of the King Malavika Dhwaja, his consort, Lord Shiva or Goddess Parvati, Srishti did justice to all and even her hasta mudras were picture perfect.
Srishti performed the javali to a Telugu composition of Pattabhi Ramaiah’s Nee Matale in Poorvi Kalyani ragamset in Adi talam.
The large-eyed beauty mesmerised the audience by exhibiting her innermost feelings while presenting the piece. One feels that the dancer here made a slight mistake, while depicting the shringar raas , where the dancer should look at the inner palm, she looked on the outside.
Scintillating Srishti presented the tillana to a composition of violin maestro Lalgudi G Jayaraman in Sindhu Bhairavi dedicated to Lord Murugan.
Srishti dedicated part of the evening to poet Narsi Mehta’s Vaishnav Jan to … , a hymn close to Father of the Nation, Mahtama Gandhi.
She showed her dancing prowess even in this spiritual hymn and ended the evening with the usual Mangalam.
