A scene from Maya Bazar played by Surabhi artists |
The Surabhi was on the verge of disappearance for
few years. With the encouragement of government and individuals by providing
shows for the survival of the Surabhi artist families and their ancient art it
is keeping its tradition.
Surabhi’s is famous for mythological plays- Srikrishna
Leelalu, Jai Paathala Bhairavi, Maya Bazar- and also folk plays.
A many as 60 members of a single family are
performing mythological and social drams under the banner of Surabhi and Padma
Shri Awardee R. Nageswara Rao popularly known as Surabhi Babji is monitoring
the team.
The Surabhi team of artists also performed the
mythological plays at Basar during the Godavari pushkarlu and enthralled the
thousands of devotees.
Nageswara Rao said, “ Gradually the Surabhi is
getting revived with the admiration showing towards their mythological plays by
the people and art lovers and added that they were using technology, big
settings, fireworks and trick scenes in the play on par with the movies to
attract the audience”.
District public relations officer B. Satyanarayana
said, government institutions came forward to encourage the Surabhi artists by
giving them opportunity to perform the shows and paying them some amount.
He said audience were spell bound those were watching
mythological play Maya Bazar performed by the Surabhi artists at Nirmal and the
Surabhi artists used technology to make the scenes more effective and attractive.
For example, eating hundreds of Laddus by Ghatothkachudu and also using firing
crackers to create fire like situation by Ghathokachudu and pouring water to
put off that fire by Abhimanyu in the war.
Adilabad collector M.Jagan Mohan took the initiative
to give life to the Surabhi drama by giving them programmes to perform.
Cultural Advisor to the state government K. V. Ramana Chary is also encouraging
the Surabhi artists and their families by providing programmes.
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