79. Kabadi

Mahayatra 2006

Indian games are unique.  To portray them on stage is a challenge.  Please go to Post 97 – KNS 6th Annual program on FREEDOM where several long-forgotten games were staged.

Mahayatra was a journey on TRADITIONS on 2006.  One of the item was a South Indian sport called KABADI.  Read more about this sport in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabaddi

Here the girls dance to a common Tamil film song entitled ‘Vaadiyamma Vaadi’

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One of Rani’s favorite was the Freedom show (see Post 97) where she displayed all the forgotten games – and her admiration for the Sixties Tamil Film songs made her choose ‘kannithamizh manam veesuthadi’.  Sticking to the original, she had the dancers begin that item in a cycle.