KUALA LUMPUR: Fans of award-winning Indian actress Shobana Chandrakumar will see her full artistic potential in the musical Maya Ravan, to be staged at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre here today.
Shobana, hailed as one of the most beautiful actresses of India, combines her three loves -- cinema, bharata natyam and theatre in this production.
The lanky actress, an accomplished bharata natyam dancer, captured Malaysian fans' hearts playing the love interest of superstar Rajinikanth in the blockbuster movie Thalapathi.
Fans of Shobana, who is the grand- daughter of the late classical dancer and actress Padmini, will marvel at her talents in conceiving, interpreting and choreographing the unique Maya Ravan production.
Together with students from her dance school, Kalarpana, Shobana who plays Ravana in Maya Ravan has scored major successes having staged more than 50 shows in a two-and-half years' worldwide tour.
Shobana, who is a frequent visitor to Malaysia, her mother being Penang born, said her main objective in producing Maya Ravan was to widen the appeal for the Ramayana epic among world audiences.
"To achieve this, the musical score is made up of a fusion of world music and Indian film music.
"The narration is in English rendered by Indian film artistes, namely Naseeruddin Shah, Jackie Shroff, Milind Soman, Suhasini Maniratnam, Revathy, Rohini, Tabu, Sameer Sony and Mohanlal."
The Maya Ravan musical, brought here by Nishchal Creations, will start at 8.30pm at the KLCC Plenary Hall. Proceeds of the show will be donated to the Malaysian Association for the Blind.
Tickets for the show can be purchased at the venue from 10am. For further inquiries call 016-9474303.
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