Mahaabhaaratam (Collaboration)(1998)


"Cleverly devised, fine performance. Very simple and straightforward in the narrative…the main virtue rests on a team of excellently trained dancers whose movements at no point show looseness in the dancing…Unstinting effort in planning out each part of the production is what ultimately created the results…rich production but not offensively garish."

- Leela Venkataraman, The Hindu, January 7, 2000


"In a performance that blended dance, drama, music and narration, the artists of Bharata Kalanjali told a story of operatic proportion. The exceptional work of the musicians and dancers could best be compared to a ballet or opera…"

- Suzanne Connelly, The Post-Standard, Monday, November 15, 1999



"…the choreographer's skill was reflected in the fact that even on the short canvas, they had vividly and elaborately portrayed major episodes…"

- India-West, October 15, 1999


"For sheer narrative accessibility, it would be hard to beat the way the Dhananjayans and their Bharata Kalanjali Company highlight essential actions in the epic through a rich gestural language and a splashy pure-dance vocabulary."

- Lewis Segal, Los Angeles Times, Tuesday, October 12, 1999

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