Sandhya Raju performs Ashtapathi

Sandhya Raju performs Jayadeva Ashtapathi. She has learnt Kuchipudi under Dr. Vempati Chinna Satyam and Shri Kishore Mosalikanti in Chennai. Choreographed in the Kuchipudi style of Indian Classical dance by Padma Bushan Guru Dr. Vempati Chinna Satyam.
Vocal: Smt. Radha Badri
Nattuvangam: Guru Kishore Mosalikanti
Mridangam: Shri Hari Babu
Flute: Shri Muthu Kumar
Violin: Shri Shikha Mani
Veena: Shri Bhavani Prasad
In this beautiful item with is both devotional and sensual, the author describes the agony and the ecstasy experienced by Radha when she hears the lilting melodies of Krishna's flute.
the scene opens with Shri Krishna immersed in a game of dice with a group of smitten gopikas. When Radha stumbles upon this scene, she peers from behind the vines in utter dismay. But the jealousy and insecurities in her heart are washed away by the nectar like melodies pouring from his beautiful lips through the enchanted flute.
Radha meanders through the forest lost in tormented thoughts about her Krishna. Even when she opens her eyes all she can see is several Krishnas courting several different Gopikas.
One Gopika who is mesmerised by Krishna's enchanting eyes, cannot even draw a Tilak neatly on his forehead on the first try !
Another is busy plucking flowers from the nearby creepers, making a beautiful ball to play with Krishna.
Yet another Gopika creates a beautiful swing with a plank and chains of flowers and beckons her Krishna to sit on it while she pushes him to and fro with joy.
The author submits his literature at the feet of the Lord in total surrender to him. Some even say, that he (jeeva athma) is Radha ! one who has absolutely surrenderd his love, life and existence to the Lord ( Paramathma).
transitioning symbolically back into Radha, who upon seeing him rushes to embrace him. Only to find that it was an illusion !
Where is the love of my life ? My Lord Krishna !? tell me dear friend ! where is He?

[@kundrapuharitha5187]

Usually I don't watch classical dances. After watching your dance I regret so much that how can I underestimate our traditonal dances. It's so fascinating and mind blowing performance. If you add the meaning to the songs We can enjoy more by connecting it with expression.

[@emrao7732]

A great Raga malika - Mohana (bhupali), Kalyani (yaman) and Sindhu Bhairavi (bhairavi) - exposition of Ashtapadi!! OUTSTANDING!!

[@sairajsolanki4729]

Used to read so many Chandamama stories in childhood ..& imagine how those Chandamama Rajkumaris looked like..Fortunately in our span of life..have this chance to observe living Chandamama Rajkumari.

[@kundrapuharitha5187]

True. She is chandamama rajakumari.

[@mukundnarayan4587]

‘Elegance personified ‘ Great job - A true Vempati product.

[@sunilkumarpatil5060]

If anyone wants to see the real gopikas of Lord Krishna, it should be just like you. Your performance is devine.

[@Sats33]

Such a beautiful and expressive dance. I can see the hard work she has put in through her sweat..

[@pranshul697]

I saw this video 3 weeks ago and then I continuously saw it for the whole week. I was so mesmerised that I couldn't watch it again, fearing that I might lose my mind. But I couldn't resist! You don't just dance, you do magic on stage. I have no dancing credentials, but still the sheer purity of your dance, the perfection of your steps blow away my mind. I admire you a lot!

[@sdd1563]

I love when she makes a swing and decorates it with flowers and picks up one extremely fragrant one and puts it in her hair.

[@solecitapc7289]

Qué hermosa danza tradicional de la India. Me encanta! 🙂👌

[@lb1496]

I love to become your student and I will definitely come to you one day to learn your techniques

[@senorbeckon]

You made this look effortless. Remarkable. Looking forward to more!

[@cnbargavi]

Ma'am you are so beautiful! Gosh! The abhinaya you showcase is so, so beautiful ma'am!! Such gentleness in your expressions!💜 I am a bharatanatyam dancer and you are one big inspiration for me! It would be such a blessing if we can watch you more often ma'am!! Much love💜🙏

[@user-jr2tj6ot9y]

Превосходный танцевальный мини-спектакль!

[@saseendranr763]

Smt Sandhya Raju performed bharatha natyam excellently. Background ashtapadi sloka is so sweet. Congratulations.

[@yechurisisters6953]

This is kuchipudi

[@dhanalakshmi2414]

பெண் பாட்டும் உங்கள் அபிநயம் அற்புதம் மிக அழகாக நதி அசைந்து அசைந்து நடந்தது போல் உள்ளது உங்கள் நடனம் சபாஷ்

[@hbsubrahmanyam4439]

Graceful perfection. Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi are prayers to the Almighty.

[@kancharapuraju137]

Madam iam inspired from you

[@Thoughts.369]

Amazing 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻❣️

[@yulay5d263]

U the best!!! I admire u! greetings from Argentina

[@vaninagajjanavar9217]

Your expressions are fantastic in all ur performances.

[@arunkumarpati6703]

A Great Dancer. Graceful dance.

[@mindwatchingbymanjutk9262]

Amazing 👌..clear and sharp

[@lakshmimenon8103]

Little stiff for kuchipudi More of lasya and flexibility and grace in adavus and moves As per vempatti chinnasathyam garu style of kuchipudi Apart from that it is a neat and perfect performance !!

[@tanushripembarthi757]

She is direct student of vempati China satyam garu..so I guess there is no style difference here...please get your facts right🙃

[@neetabhavsar603]

Your dance is generating classic vibes 💫 .....too elegant 💙

[@tprlsindhuri]

Wonderful, I can imagine how much efforts you would have put for practice

[@AaditiPalavalasa]

Amazing dance..... sandhya akka.... religiously still follow ur videos.. please keep sharing...

[@nagalakshmikeerthana7201]

no words to express. outstanding performance and mind blowing expressions.

[@atitagamana9473]

From what I know is that, good dancers keep their costumes simple. You will see this habit with all good dancers in India and abroad. Monochromatic muted colours allow us to concentrate on the execution of the dance.

[@sheriffmohideen1]

Beauty and grace personified.. No more words..

[@hrc8041]

Madam, what an amazing dance! You are the only Kuchipudi dancer I have seen with such truly natural expressions. I especially love your Krishna Shabdam dance and watch it every day. I would love to watch the full video of this performance in Rajapalayam that you have a few videos from on your channel. Please let me know if you have it available for purchase anywhere. Thank you!

[@gosialubiplacki]

finally something new from you! i really love it!

[@kasiaysola]

wonderful!!

[@RajaramS-ox6xb]

She has performed this Ashtapadhi beautifully. Congrats.

[@kancharapuraju137]

Madam slokalu notes pedatharani asisthunanu

[@nrityamadhurya2541]

Extremely graceful dancer...

[@balakrishnapanicker.5804]

Ms.Sandhya Raju, Madam l am so glad to enjoy your dance past long years and like admire your presentation that remains so beautiful always with one disciplined costume.

[@nirmalahegde6371]

Excellent awesome no words to describe

[@pinchuap]

she luks beautiful

[@ajayanv2261]

Supper performance mam

[@laggerisrilakshmi2240]

Hi mam great dance but what is the use incomplet song. Plz upload full song. That mean it can be learn beginars thank you.

[@Jo-kl1bc]

I am really inspired by your passion..

[@kiransonawane1375]

Lovely 💗💗💗

[@tutakleelakrishna7542]

🥰😍 expression nice sister super performes also

[@vanirangaraju6937]

Amazing performance mam

[@kancharapuraju137]

I am also a dancer mam and madam please tell me meru dance certificate chesera

[@niranjansarpangala3199]

Best "Sanchara dadhara" performance I have ever seen. :) Vocal is also very good. The audio and video quality is awesome. Please upload the full video if possible.

[@PC-pc4od]

My favourite: astapadi ❤

[@nandinipenumarthy9788]

Astounding as always

[@dolcemusicinstitute]

amazing

[@narendrachowdary6894]

After Akka won National Award 🎉

[@Neermalamuu]

Excellent expressions.

[@aksharaammuzz511]

amazing performance

[@venkateswarasarmavaranasi7802]

👏👏👏

[@aswanik8150]

Hiiii Sandhya Raju Garu.... I like this performance alot.... U live as Yashoda....

[@aswanik8150]

Can I be ur student?

[@sheriffmohideen1]

so beautiful and awesome dance

[@dheerajindrakrishnasimha2468]

I love your videos and dance

[@reji9166]

beautiful performance. greetings from dubai

[@siddharthakousik6118]

Elegant

[@prashobhprabhakar2186]

Awesome no words ...

[@RajasreeJakkampudi]

Hi Sandhya garu...its so nice...can you please upload chandramukhi song dance as tutorial to learn....plss

[@AakashaVani369]

Meditation

[@yankeedoodle8204]

Graceful and flowing!

[@RajaramS-ox6xb]

Beautiful performance.

[@srinivasreddy1366]

Beautiful

[@sheriffmohideen1]

beautiful n graceful dance

[@ivaanabhishek]

❤️❤️❤️🙏

[@reddyda]

Beautiful dance

[@dhananjay77744]

What lord dance

[@preethighadei5754]

Beautiful 🌷🌷full song please madam

[@singh1261]

Nice...

[@manuthekkoot]

Mohanam

[@tinusingh9534]

You nice

[@madanparahiya9003]

Very nice

[@nikhilbabu6233]

Grace

[@alwyn7769]

❤️❤️

[@kaushlendraraogontina7838]

🙏😍

[@appukuttankk3476]

I like your dance where is your dance institute plz reply

[@ramakrishnaponnuru9397]

And plz upload kuchipudi natyam classes each one from starting plz plz plz plz madam

[@sandhulu]

That’s a promise

[@ramakrishnaponnuru9397]

Tq u soon much mam

[@supervideoz1925]

Kalamandalam or Kala Shetra I am studying Kala Shetra

[@RajKGajjela]

Reaction videos got more views than original video..:(

[@jyotidhanuk1294]

😘

[@vijayalakshmi-dt7dr]

Could you please refer any Kuchipudi academy near Sanath Nagar , Hyderabad madam.

[@shamshurrehman7309]

Please raagam of this ashtpadi

[@anithakrishna3168]

Ashtapathi noopura Samcarad-adhara-sudhaa-madhura-dvani-mukharita-mohana-vamsam 
chalita-drg-anchala-chanchala-mauli-kapola-vilola-vatamsam 
raase harim iha vihita-vilaasam 
smartati mano mama krta-parihaasam (dhruva padam) Chandaraka-chaaru-mayura-sikhandaka-mandala-valyita-kesam 
pracura-purandara-dhanur-anuranjita-medura-mudira-suvesam gopa-kadamba-nitambhavati-mukha-cumbana-lambhita-lobham 
bandhuvija-madhuradhara-pallavam ullasita-smita-shobham Kalyani vipula-pulaka-bhuja-pallava-valayita-ballava-yuvati-sahasram 
kara-caranorasi mani-gana-bhusana-kirana-vibhinna-tamisram Sindhubairavi sri-jayadeva-bhanitam atisundara-mohana-madhu-ripu rupam 
hari-charana-smaranam prati samprati punyavatam anurupam raase harim iha vihita-vilaasam 
smartati mano mama krta-parihaasam

[@srabanibasu7827]

Hi Sandhya ji...beautiful presentation, would like to seek your consent to use this video as a valued content for a website I am developing on 'Gita-Govinda' for a project in University of North Carolina...would be great if you please share few words on any specific experiences during choreography or performance of this item ...thanks in advance :)

[@sandhulu]

Check out this video on KZbin:

[@pavanavtar7490]

Sandhya Raju

[@pavanavtar7490]

Sandhya Raju

[@nallaramadevissrivaripadal418]

This song can use for bharathanatyam dance

[@ramakrishnaponnuru9397]

Madam plz upload videos

[@sandhulu]

Very soon. Working on something phenomenal for past 3 years. I won’t disappoint you

[@dheerajindrakrishnasimha2468]

I'm leaving dance

[@anishlee5733]

expression okke .. kollam. . . not bad . . . I just like it ..

[@MalluKidsAfrica]

Please is it not AshtapaDi instead of THI? The meaning is so different!

[@nikethagiri4249]

what is the difference??

[@satyanarayanaj2320]

In Sanskrit /Hindi/Telugu...you have Di and Thi letters also.....like the in telugu it is to be written as అష్టపది not as అష్టపథి

[@123pans]

hi love ur performances. perfection and grace together. could i contact you please. i have learnt kuchupudi and want to continue it as i love this art form. is it possible to contact you.

[@anjanaiyer6120]

You can Google her name ..you will find her dance school in Hyderabad , jubilee hills I believe

[@ganeshnadekar9270]

Will u be my guru I want to join

[@preethidevadiga8483]

its mixed dance..defferent songs isn't it

[@amritarupalaha8097]

Wow... It has been a long time since I saw such beautiful Abhinaya. But... I noticed that the dancer was lip singing... Is that allowed in Kuchipudi (I don't know actually)? Not like it detoriated the standard of the performance, which was excellent!

[@aafreenmoinuddin2197]

I heard from Shobha Naidu in one of her programs that you're allowed lip movement while performing abhinaya ; However I guess it is when doing nrutta or nritta you are not allowed to . For Instance Jatiswaram

[@archana197985]

It's part of kuchipudi to lip sync. It's called vachikaabhinayam.

[@jlsjls]

Lip movement is compulsory in kuchipudi👍

[@grzegorzc2163]

Mądrzejsze Panie więdzą, że śmierdzące kwiatki rzuca się za siebie a nie przed siebie. A kiedy już jest nadmiar tych śmierdzących kwiatków uciekają szybciutko... do domu ! Tak jak pokazane jest to przez tą Panią w tańcu na poniższym video kzbin.info/www/bejne/nH3RiJpuismXars

[@garikejayendra27]

Madam..please tell me the difference between Kuchipudi and Bharatnatyam.. because without any title it's almost impossible to say which one is Kuchipudi and which one is bharatnatyam..and I don't have any knowledge about dancing..it's only out of my interest...

[@anjanaiyer6120]

She performs only kuchipudi

[@suryaprakash-]

In Kuchipudi the postures, mudras and movements are very graceful and it seems like you are seeing a river to flow. Where as in Bharata Natyam the postures are more sculpted and movements are a bit rigid compared to Kuchipudi. Bharata Natyam can be compared to fire, when a dancer performing Bharata Natyam, his/her movements will be like flames of fire.

[@samrithahdancer6620]

superb performance mam