M Prabhakara Joshi's thesis on a micro study of prsanga Krishna Sandhana, Madhava Peraje's (of Kannada University) thesis on Talamaddale and G S Bhat's thesis on legendary artiste Keremane Shambhu Hegde.There have been two theses on Sheni Gopalakrishna Bhat. The latest thesis is on popular Badagutittu artiste Chittani Ramachandra Hegde, by Ms Vasudha Hegde. A post-graduate in Kannada literature, Vasudha lives in the US at present. Besides Chittani, she has also interviewed a host of other doyens in the field including Kadathoka M
anjunatha Bhagavatha for her thesis which will soon come out as a book.Chittani and Vasudha were felicitated in June this year at Ravindra Kalakshetra in Bangalore (see picture in the right)
Chittani is one of the highly popular artistes of the northern school and is known for playing the roles of villains such as Bhasmasura, Kaurava, Dhustabudhdhi and Keechaka, among others. Chittani has reinvented the role of Bhasmasura, Vasudha notes in her thesis. At 73, Chittani is still active. He was in the US in 2004 on the invitatin of his US-based fans and gave a number of performances there .
Read a profile of Chittani by S Bageshree, published in The Hindu in early 2004 when Chittani turned 70.
Read one more write-up on Chittani, published in Deccan Herald (undated)
2 comments:
As my openion any person cannot stop writing about Shri Chittani.There are many many things to explain,describe about this Superstar Rangasthala khalaNayaka.Your Phd thesis on Chittani was realy very nice. Last month there was a progame named CHITTANI 75 in Rajangana at Udupi. This programe has gone for a week. It was realy a wonderful programe.
Where can we get the thesis? Is it available online?
raguks at yahoo dot ca
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