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Senior Yakshagana artiste M. R. Vasudeva Samaga handed away close to Udupi on November 7. He was 72 and is survived by spouse and son.
Samaga lived in Koteshwara, close to Kundapura. He was ailing for the previous couple of days.
Hailing from a household of Yakshagana artistes, his father, the late Malpe Ramadasa Samaga, was additionally a widely known artiste and an orator. His uncle, the late Malpe Shankaranarayana Samaga, who was the brother of Ramadasa Samaga, was a famous Yakshagana performer and talamaddale ‘arthadhari’.
An achieved artiste, Vasudeva Samaga was well-versed each in Badagu Thittu and Tenku Thittu faculties of Yakshagana. As knowledgeable artiste, he had toured in a variety of Yakshagana ‘melas’ (touring troupes), together with the greater than a century outdated Dharmasthala Yakshagana mela.
Yakshagana artiste S. N. Bhat Bayar recalled that Vasudeva Samaga had distinctive oratory expertise and used to fully contain himself within the roles, particularly throughout talamaddale performances. He was snug in exhibiting all ‘rasas’ of Yakshagana together with the ‘hasya rasa’.
He had shaped his personal talamaddale troupe referred to as ‘samyamam’.
Vasudeva Samaga used to carry out many ‘stree veshas’ (girls roles) that required further expertise to carry out.
Yakshagana trainer Mambady Subrahmanya Bhat mentioned that the involvement of Vasudeva Samaga in all his roles was an distinctive high quality of his.
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