{"id":111725,"date":"2018-01-30T18:15:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T12:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=111725"},"modified":"2018-01-30T18:15:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T12:45:26","slug":"ottanthulal-artist-kalamandalam-geethanandan-dies-temple-performance-hindustan-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=111725","title":{"rendered":"Ottanthulal artist Kalamandalam Geethanandan dies during temple performance | Hindustan Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned Ottanthulal artist Kalamandalam Geethanandan died while performing at a temple in Irinjalakkuda on Sunday evening. He was 58.<\/p>\n<p>The artist was given first aid and taken to a hospital, but could not be saved. A video clip of his last performance circulating in the social media showed that Geethanandan collapses in front of the percussion artist with folded hands as the shocked audience looks on.<\/p>\n<p>Geethanandan, who performed on more than 5,000 stages across the country, was also a tutor of Ottanthulal at Kerala Kalamandalam for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Chief minister of Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan condoled the artiste\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--edge EmbeddedTweet--mediaForward media-forward js-clickToOpenTarget js-tweetIdInfo tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\">\n<article class=\"MediaCard\n           MediaCard--mediaForward\n\n           customisable-border\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"MediaCard-media\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-widthConstraint js-cspForcedStyle\">\n<div class=\"story-details\">\n<p>Geethanandan was a recipient of several awards including Sangeet Nataka Academy Award in 2000 and Kalamamdnal award in 2010, also acted in over 30 malayalam films.<\/p>\n<p>He was also the first artist to perform thullal at Paris.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife Shobana and children Sanalkumar and Sreelakshmi, who are also Thullal artists. (ANI)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned Ottanthulal artist Kalamandalam Geethanandan died while performing at a temple in Irinjalakkuda on Sunday evening. He was 58. The artist was given first aid and taken to a hospital, but could not be saved. A video clip of his last performance circulating in the social media showed that Geethanandan collapses in front of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2496],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}