Indian actress Shobana to display artistic talents at musical in Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR - Award-winning Indian actress Shobana Chandrakumar is all set to showcase her performing talents in Malaysia in the musical Maya Ravan, to be staged at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre today.

Hailed as one of the most beautiful actresses of India, Shobana combines her three loves-cinema, Bharata Natyam and theatre-in this production.

The actress won the hearts of Malaysian fans after she played the love interest of superstar Rajinikanth in the blockbuster movie ‘Thalapathi’.

An accomplished Bharata Natyam dancer, Shobana is the grand-daughter of late classical dancer/actress Padmini.

And now fans of the brilliant actress will marvel at her talents in conceiving, interpreting, and choreographing the unique Maya Ravan production.

Shobana, who plays Ravana in Maya Ravan, and the students from her dance school, Kalarpana, have scored major successes having staged more than 50 shows in a two-and-half years’ worldwide tour.

She said that 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 New Strait Times quoted her as saying.

“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,” she added.

The Maya Ravan musical, presented in Malaysia by Nishchal Creations, starts today at the KLCC Plenary Hall.

Proceeds of the show will be donated to the Malaysian Association for the Blind. (ANI)