Actor-dancer Vineeth Radhakrishnan is on a pursuit of joy every moment in his life, and it started, as he recalls, at the age of three when he used to just run around and dance at his house in Koyilandy. As a little child, he used to entertain visitors to his house with a dance number on the song ‘Kettille Kottyathoru Mootha Pillechen’ from the Malayalam film Maanyashree Vishwamithran, which was released in 1974. That pursuit of joy through dance, Bharatanatyam being his forte, has now completed 50 glorious years, and is still on.
“Whenever you do a character as a dancer, you become that, be it Lord Krishna or a prince or even a monkey. That gives you a sense of inner joy. Besides, there is a connection with the Supreme. It is absolute Bhakti beyond religion though our traditional dance items are based on religious beliefs. The joy you get out of this starts moulding you as a person and there will be refinement. Only when there is complete surrender to your Guru, you really start absorbing techniques, and they start growing in you. That’s how these 50 years have been for me,” says Vineeth.
