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VEEDHI VIRUDHU VIZHA 2020 The "Veedhi Viruthu Vizha" 2020 was conducted on 11th and 12th January 2020. It's a festival to honor old traditional art forms and enhancing the interest in traditional folk arts. It was an opportunity given by Loyola College and the leaders of the folk art forms to other artists. More than 7000 folk artists exposed their talents to the common public in the festival. Those who entered the college could feel themselves in a village atmosphere during the festival. Folk arts from all parts of India were performed. I was able to remember few of the folk art forms like Balakaragam which was performed by a 5 year old girl all the way from Dubai. "Bala" the word itself means infant. It was mindblowing to watch the 5 year old girl dance to the beat so perfectly with the karagam(pot) on her head , standing on plates, knife, pot, glass pieces, nails, etc. Based on the age category of the person dancing karagattam, karagattam is differe

Interactive session with Gnana serukku movie crew Unlike every other interactive sessions we have with the members of the crew of various movies, the Gnana Serukku movie crew was a different experience. They spoke about how a good team can work on it's own time produce a feature film. They spoke about the difficulties they faced to produce the film. The main character of the movie passed away even before completing the shoot and how they had to change the script and the challenges faced during editing and how they had to take a break in between the flow of the shoot as they had very less budget to complete the film. How their friends were helpful giving their financial and moral support to the team. They spoke about their experiences how they reduced the budget by making their own tracks instead of renting them. It's an international award winning movie which is going to be screened as a feature film soon in Indian movie theaters as it has marked its standard both in con