Kalamandalam Bindhulekha
Kalamandalam Bindhulekha (born 18 October 1978) is a mural painter and Mohiniyattam, Bharathanatyam dancer from Kerala state, India. She is the first woman mural painter in temple drawing from Kerala state.
Kalamandalam Bindhulekha
- Name
- Kalamandalam Bindhulekha
- Born
- 18 October 1978
- Birth Name
- Bindhulekha
- Occupation
- Mural painter, Dancer
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Kalamandalam Bindhulekha (born 18 October 1978) is a mural painter and Mohiniyattam, Bharathanatyam dancer from Kerala state, India. She is the first woman mural painter in temple drawing from Kerala state.
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• Name — Kalamandalam Bindhulekha • Born — 18 October 1978 • Birth Name — Bindhulekha • Occupation — Mural painter, Dancer • Years Active — 2001–present
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Early life and background
Kalamandalam Bindhulekha is a diploma holder in Mohiniyattam and Bharathanatyam and has graduated from Kerala Kalamandalam. She took up mural painting, after having been attracted by the work of her brother-in-law, Sadanandan, a disciple of Mammiyur Krishnan Kutty Nair and was trained in the genre for six years.
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Her debut work in Tiroor Vadakurumbakaavu temple in Thrissur is considered the first mural painting to be done in a Kerala temple by a woman artist. It took two years to complete the mural painting which consisted of three forms of Devi - Saraswati (in shades of white), Bhadrakali (in shades of dark blue) and Mahalakshmi (in shades of red). The painting was based on the theme "Rajas tamas satva".
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