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Click Here 34 MB Large Click Here 14 MB Top and bottom letterbox borders black area only may be cropped for publishing. She wants him to lift a family curse of barrenness. With the burden lifted, her sons—the folk heroes Ponnar and Shankar—are born. In an effort to glorify their family and heir kingdom Ponnivalanadu , these twin kings face combat with ferocious beasts and fierce warriors, until fate reclaims them and returns their spirits to Lord Shiva at just sixteen years of age. Little known outside of its home region, the story was brought to the world when Brenda Beck; then a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at Oxford; left to study Tamil society in India in There, she was presented with a live performance of the popular local legend, which is still sung by bards in the ancient oral tradition.
An epic adventure about the earliest farming origins in Kongu Nadu, the story took an astonishing eighteen evenings to perform, and used some 44 hours of reel-to-reel audio tape to record. While highly localized and surprisingly unique, the epic has a deep connection with the greatest of all Indian epics, the Mahabharata including reincarnations of some of its key heroic characters.
It provides fascinating insights into Indian Tamil culture as well as Hindu folk mythology in general. In , preliminary work began on adapting this great epic to create an animated series titled The Legend of Ponnivala.
The result of that adaptation is an unparalleled animated series now in post-production comprising twenty six half-hour episodes. The style of the animation, created under the artistic direction of Indian-Canadian artist Ravichandran Arumugam and technical direction of Eric Harris, has been painstakingly crafted to reflect a traditional Indian folk art style, while the 2D animation is modelled on South Asian shadow puppetry.
This production has also spawned a complete comic book series in English and Tamil, as well as several children's stories, short films, classroom teaching materials, and soon a downloadable computer version of Parcheesi , an Indian strategy game that features prominently in the story. The original audio recordings have been used as part of the film's soundtrack scored by Steafan Hannigan.
The score also features Subhadra Vijaykumar on Carnatic violin. For more information, visit: Brenda Beck For media enquiries, please contact: The Legend of Ponnivala in Tamil gets a thumbs up from venerable seniors' group. Wednesday, July 18, Episode Monday, July 16, Episode Thursday, July 12, Episode You can also view them in webcomic format at www. Tuesday, July 10, Episode Komban , Ponnar Shankar , Ponnivala , Viratangal , wild boar. Friday, July 06, Episode Ganesh , Ponnar Shankar , Vishnu.
Wednesday, July 04, Episode Monday, July 02, Episode Thursday, June 28, Episode When he arrives with the required gifts he is jailed in a move designed to force the other brother to appear. When this brother does arrive, the cunning King tries many more tricks. As a consequence the elder sibling takes the humbling gift to the Chola palace by himself, accompanied only by the loyal family assistant. The great king accepts the payment but he is not happy.
He has not won the submission of the younger twin, the one he really wants to humiliate. So he develops his own scheme and throws the elder twin in jail. The king reasons that when the younger twin gets word of this he will come to his palace in search of his missing brother. Back at the palace the younger sister has a dream in which she learns that the brother who took the tribute to the Chola has been jailed there.
She tells her other brother who angrily takes off to rescue his twin. When the younger king arrives he finds the assistant still waiting patiently outside the palace. He stops to vent some of his anger on him. Meanwhile the Chola, knowing that the younger twin is prone to violence, gets worried.
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So decides to pretend that nothing is wrong. He releases his brother and prepares a feast. Pretending that he wants to honor the elder brother he decorates him by putting rings on his toes, seating him on a throne, and so forth.
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This time he hopes to get them to sit on a chair that has been cunningly tied over a deep pit and is designed to dump its occupant into that hole. Finally the Chola proposes a trip to a mountain shrine near by. Eventually he traps the two brothers there, stranding them on a high cliff.
He helps them climb up by providing a long ladder, but then pulls it way. But the two heroes are not ready to give up. As usual they call on Lord Vishnu for help once more.
The Lord starts to fly towards earth. He appears to them as a beggar with very long hair, walking along a path at the foot of that cliff. Hearing the two stranded me call out, the beggar then braids his hair and throws his magically long plaits up to them. The two men scramble down those braids readily. They want to attack the Chola king in revenge. An all out fight ensues. When arrive both the wicked Chola king and the angry clansmen are inside the palace gates.
There is a major attack by the skilful heroes and their huge assistant. At the end of the scuffle the Chola king lies dead, along with all of the rival clansmen who initially brought their complaint to him. The twins return home victorious. They have now freed themselves from the requirement to show submission to an onerous overlord. Peace reigns throughout the kingdom. Tuesday, June 26, Episode Chola , Ponnar Shankar , Ponnivala , Shambuga.
Friday, June 22, Episode Wednesday, June 20, Episode Tuesday, June 19, Homer's Odyssey in Ottawa. There were no costumes and none of the 18 or so performers were assigned individual character roles. There were no prompters, no scripts and no cheat notes. This might sound boring but the result was an outstanding performance! I drove four hours from a village near Toronto to hear this, dragging my sceptical husband along. We were not sure what to expect.
I was curious because of my interest in ancient bardic storytelling techniques, which I am familiar with from my years of living in a village in South India prior to the advent of electricity there. There is a parrot hunt, complete with a tiger and cobra fight. The brothers capture one parrot but its male companion complains to the Forest Princess. An artisan tricks one brother but eventually is killed. His hunter friends try to take revenge.
The two brothers win a pitched battle and reach home safely. A wild boar goes on a rampage and uproots rice paddies. He challenges the two Ponnivala Kings. A war drum is raised and readied for battle. Tangal asks for signs as her brothers leave for the boar hunt. Her pet dog, left behind, curses the Ponnivala Kings. They lie sick in their war tent. The warrior brothers apologize and the curse is lifted. Komban the Boar is killed. Lord Vishnu now sides with the hunters. The brothers gift their lives to Lord Shiva.
Seeing signs, Tangal knows her brothers are dead. She burns the palace, finds and revives her brothers, has pavilions built, and all rise to Heaven. Kindle — Series 2 English In Part Two, the king of Ponnivala and his courageous queen are blessed with the birth of three magical children: Use this menu to explore Series 2: Their sister Tangal lives with them.
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