The
101
days
long
arts
festival
with
films,
music,
dance
and
videos
-
Soorya
Festival
-
will
begin
at
Thiruvananthapuram
on
September
21.
From
this
year
onwards,
the
festival
will
be
held
in
10
more
districts
in
the
State,
besides
Chennai,
Bangalore,
Mumbai
and
New
Delhi.
Industrialist
and
NRI
Ravi
Pillai
will
inaugurate
the
festival
at
Tagore
Theatre.
It
will
begin
with
a
special
show
by
National
Award
winning
contemporary
dance
troupe
Samudra,
followed
by
the
world
premier
of
Priyadarshan's
Tamil
film
Kanchipuram.
Tagore
theatre,
Co-operative
Bank
auditorium,
Kalabhavan
and
Vyloppilly
Samskrithi
Bhavan
are
the
main
venues
of
the
festival.
More
than
1,000
artistes
from
all
over
the
country
are
expected
to
take
part
in
the
festival.
Veteran
artistes,
including
Padma
Subramaniam,
K.J.
Yesudas,
Shobhana,
Priyadarshini
Govind,
Bombay
Jayasree
and
T.M.
Krishna
will
grace
the
Soorya
Dance
and
Music
festival
to
be
held
from
October
1
to
10.
A
new
event
to
be
featured
this
year
is
'Jalsa
Ghar',
which
includes
10
chamber
music
concerts.
Ramesh
Narayan,
Gayathri,
Sreenivasan,
Kudamaloor
Janardhanan,
Athira
Kodamballi
and
Prince
Ravi
Varma
will
take
part
in
Jalsa
Ghar
to
be
held
from
November
11
to
20
at
the
Swathi
Tirunal
School
of
Music.
Adoor
Gopalakrishnan's
Naalu
Penungal,
Shyamaprasad's
Ore
Kadal,
Pakistani
film
Khuda
Ke
Liye,
Chak
De
India,
Taare
Zameen
Par,
Sarkar
Raj
and
Jodha
Akbar
will
be
screened
from
September
21
to
30.
The
cultural
fest
will
end
on
December
31
featuring
a
specially
designed
programme,
'Tharangam',
by
singer
M.G.
Sreekumar,
G.
Venugopal,
Ramesh
Narayanan
and
Vidhu
Prathap.
The
fete
is
dedicated
to
celebrated
playwright
K.T.
Mohammed,
who
passed
away
earlier
this
year.