About The Event
Karna is a classic work produced in the distinctive dance-drama style evolved by Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra over the last 40 years. It is a deeply moving portrayal of Mahabharata’s most misunderstood hero, Karna, based on the national poet Ramdhari Singh Dinkar's famous work Rashmi Rathi. It is choreographed mainly in the Mayurbhanj style of Chhau dance.
The character of Karna as delineated by Vyas provides the most penetrating study of relations between man and his destiny, nature and nurture, deemed and redeemed. Towards no other persona of the epic of Mahabharata do circumstances remain consistently so hostile. Karna’s life and times are frozen in their entirety, and his fortunes into perpetual predicament. When Karna fails, we relive in our minds with sympathy the acts of greatness by this noble personality and remember how Providence was consistently unkind towards this righteous hero.
