Gowda is a usual, inefficient village-chief interested in nothing except collecting taxes, eating and sleeping. Each character is delineated and represented in specific exposé so that the narrative is developed into a form that relates to the contemporary reality and time. The meaning and objective of this production is basically achieved through the rendering of the characters and their depiction. This continuous travel from character to singer-narrator and back will give an air of informality and provide a relaxed pursuit to the spectator. The singers join and attach themselves to the action as and when needed, and detach subsequently they represent the people of the village. These singers might have traveled through ages and have witnessed/ inherited the poetry from ancestors. The structure of the performance text derived from this poem, naturally will be that of a poetic narrative, sung and enacted by a group of singer-actors.
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The poem become much more pleasant, funny and agile in rendering more narrative, and is set to highly rhythmic and free flowing verse. In Kuvempu poem is pungent with increased irony, pun, humor and have the weirdness of abstraction than the original. In this beautiful and imaginative adaptation of Pied Piper, Kuvempu retains almost all of the original imagery and structure still the transformation into the Kannada cultural milieu is complete and authentic the outlook and characteristics of the people and the narrative mode are completely localized to Kannada culture, perspective and expression. But the one which is the all time favorite of many is his version of the Pied piper, a beautiful poem called Bommanahalliya Kindari Jogi, the finest creation of a brilliant mind for the children adapted from the pied piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning. Kuvempu produced over 30 major books in a period spanning 5 decade which includes two novels Kaanoora Heggadathi and Malegallalli Madumagalu, and many plays including Beralge Koral (based on the Ekalavya incident ), Smaashaana Kurukshetra ( The burial ground of Kurukshetra ). He was conferred Padma Bhushan by Government of India. He is immortalized in particular for his contribution to Universal Humanism. His work Sri Ramayana Darshanam, the rewriting of the great ancient Indian epic Ramayana in modern Kannada, is regarded as revival of the era of Epic poetry in a contemporary form and charm. He is the first among seven recipients of Jnanpith Award for Kannada He is the second among Kannada poets to be revered as Rashtrakavi. Kuvempu (Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa, 1904 - 1994) is widely regarded as the greatest poet of 20th century Kannada literature. My first production in Kannada was Madhuve Hennu by HS Shivaprakash performed by Holeranga Honnali. This time it is a children’s play Bommanahalliya Kindari Jogi adapted, designed and directed from the poem with the same name penned by Kuvempu, produced and performed by MP Prakash Arts Foundation Shivamogga. My second production in Kannada language was premiered in Kuvempu Rangamandira at Shivamogga Karnataka, on 10 th May at 7.00 pm.
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