Doyen Of Mohiniyattam Dr. Kanak Rele Passes Away, Last Rites Held With Full State Honours – FilmyVoice
World-renowned doyen of Mohiniyattam Dr. Kanak Rele handed away in a personal hospital on Monday following a quick sickness, plunging the world of arts right into a pall of gloom. She was 85. Rele is survived by her husband Yatindra Rele, son Rahul and daughter-in-law Uma, and two grandchildren. She was accorded a cremation with full state honours on the Juhu Crematorium right here on Wednesday night.
Earlier, her mortal stays had been taken to the Nalanda Dance Academy at Juhu the place a whole lot of her colleagues, previous and current college students together with many prime notch dancers in several dance types, paid homage to her.
“The auditorium was filled with over 300 disciples, with moist eyes, grieving for his or her favorite ‘Guru’, who was stored for darshan there,” mentioned one in all her associates and Odishi exponent Shubhada Varadkar after the funeral.
After a gun salute by the Mumbai Police, her physique, draped within the nationwide tricolour, was introduced out for the ultimate journey.
Later, her funeral cortege wended its approach to the Juhu Crematorium the place many extra mourners joined and paid silent homage.
Ailing for over per week, Rele was admitted to a suburban personal hospital the place she breathed her final round 7.30 a.m., mentioned the household.
Condoling her demise, Maharashtra Governor Ramesh Bais described her as ‘Nritya Tapaswini’, one of many most interesting exponents of Mohiniattam and Kathakali who devoted her complete life to the reason for promotion, propagation and analysis of Indian classical dance types.
“Dr. Rele made basic work within the area of dance by means of her Nalanda Dance Analysis Centre and the Nalanda Nritya Kala Mahavidyalaya. She educated a whole lot of scholars and introduced classical dance near the folks,” he mentioned.
Many different distinguished dignitaries from completely different walks of life and the nationwide dance fraternity have grieved Rele’s passing.
Born in Gujarat and spending part of her childhood in Kolkata, she began studying the Kathakali dance on the tender age of seven, from her Guru Panchali Karunakara Panicker.
Then, she pursued her teachers, qualifying as a lawyer from Mumbai and in worldwide legislation from the UK, moreover holding a doctorate in dance from College of Mumbai.
After conducting detailed analysis into the dance types from historic texts, Rele developed her personal type of Mohiniyattam, which was referred to as “Kanak Rele College”, revived and popularised the dance kind including a scientific mood and tutorial rigour to the artwork.
In her lengthy and illustrious dance profession spanning almost eight many years, she was conferred the Padma Shri (1989), Padma Bhushan (2013), Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1994), Kalidas Samman (2006), M S Subbulakshmi Award and different accolades.
