‘Spatial Rhythm’, a documentary on poet and doyen of theatre Kavalam Narayana Panicker directed by Sivamohan Thampi, was screened by Cochin Film Society in the city on Thursday.
Prior to the event, Kavalam spent sometime at the Nanappa Art Gallery at the invite of artist T. Kaladharan where he spoke on the documentary, his works and recited a few poems. “It is a good documentary,” he said. “Thampi has known me for quite sometime, but fortunately our closeness hasn’t influenced him to train the camera on me. The film is about my works,” said the dapper playwright.
“I have always looked at things from my outlook as a villager and fundamental to my art is my conscience bestowed by a value-based world surrounding the village,” he said and recited, at the request of Mr. Kaladharan and the audience a few poems, including ‘Yathrachirakil’ on life’s passage to the infinity of death. “While on that journey as a community, can’t we work towards ending strife in the name of religion, caste and belief?”
As is typical of his work, suffused as they are with a deep sense of rhythm characteristic of rustic living, a poem that sounded like a rustic limerick rich in colloquial expressions and folk tenets was also rendered by him.
Theatre personality Prof. Chandradasan was present.
