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Swathi Thirunal

SWATHI THIRUNAL
The Composer and the Choreographer

Maharaja Swathi Thirunal was a rare genius. It would be difficult to find a parallel. Like all such men of extraordinary genius, he also passed away in his early ’Thirties. Erudite scholar, enviable linguist, rare aesthete, builder of vision, administrator of varied dimensions, connoisseur of everything artistic, and above all a great poet and composer. Swathi Thirunal compressed into his short span of life some of the most magnificent achievements of human capability, as generations after him wonder at his miraculous achievements. Scholars have despaired at the great heights of glory he had reached.

Swathi Thirunal, who was born into a family with justifiable pride of ancestry, was educated by a galaxy of scholars and aided by the best private library of the South available in his own palace. Swathi Thirunal had mastered Sanskrit, English, Persian, Hindustani, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada in addition to his mother-tongue, Malayalam, at the early age of 16, when he ascended the throne and became Maharaj

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Chennai

Kings of the past did fight duels. But this was absolutely new. The king was long dead and had been dragged into a fistfight he would have never forethought.

Travancore was a very loaded state ruled by a Hindu raja with a Chera lineage. It was still a feudal set-up on the borders of a very dissimilar British-ruled Madras presidency. The rulers had a regular court where musicians, poets and artists performed. Naturally, Tamil musicians sans patrons often migrated to Travancore, supported by the art-loving royalty.

In the middle of the 19th century, Rama Varma, known as Swathi Thirunal (named after the natal star under whose influence he was born), was a progressive ruler in a state bound by rigid societal regulations. He even constructed an astronomical observatory — one of the earliest in the subcontinent. Though he sponsored musicians during his lifetime and for nearly a century later, he certainly was not considered a prolific Carnatic composer. The reason believed was as a king he did not have disciples to propagate his music.

But almost a century after he died,

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Swathi Thirunal (film)

1987 Indian film

Swathi Thirunal is a 1987 Indian Malayalam-language biographical film co-written and directed by Lenin Rajendran. The film is based on the life of Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma, the Maharaja of Travancore. It stars Anant Nag in the title role, with Srividya, Nedumudi Venu and Murali in other important roles. The cinematographer was Madhu Ambat.

Plot

The story begins with Gowri Lakshmi Bayi entrusting the four-month-old Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma to the care of the English East India Company whose representative was Col. Munro. Then it cuts to when Swathi Thirunal is sixteen and takes over the reins of Travancore from his aunt Gowri Parvati Bayi. Swathi Thirunal's biography is then shown against the backdrop of the music that he himself has composed. The movie ends with his death in 1846.

Cast

Production

After Anant Nag's Kannada film Narada Vijaya (1980) was dubbed into Malayalam and performed well in the Kerala box office, the director Lenin Rajendran and cinematographer Madhu Ambat approached him to p