![]() ![]() Rich in music, rhyme, rhythm ad meter, Thullal is also replete with satirical wit and humor. His thinking and expert skills made way for the new art form Nambiyar propounded, Thullal. ![]() Only through the mass appeal of art can the injustices and inequalities aced by some be addressed. Also it is the artist's cardinal duty to highlight the social evils and malpractices society indulges in. Art, Nambiyar believed should bring entertainment to the spectator, immaterial of his caste, religion or social status. He brought the fine arts into the lives common masses. An artist par excellence, Nambiyar was extremely well versed in dance, music and poetry. At this time, about 200 years ago, emerged Kunjan Nambiyar. This dialect was beyond the understanding of the lower classes that started to feel culturally deprived. Even fine arts had become the forte of the rich and the learned the elite Brahmins spoke a Malayalam heavily spiked with Sanskrit and this influenced the music of the dance forms such as Kathakali. Caste ridden and laden with the evils of discrimination and oppression, Kerala society was in dire need of a messiah who could bring men back to their senses.
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