Daijiworld Media Network – Byndoor (MS)

Byndoor, Mar 11: The famous art of Yakshagana lost a renowned artiste on Sunday, March 10.

Hudugodu Chandrahasa died while he was performing on the stage. This incident occurred at Jogijaddu of Elajita village near here.

Chandrahasa was enacting the role of Saalva in the Yakshagana play of ‘Bheeshma Vijaya’, when he collapsed on the stage and died of heart attack.

Chandrahasa was born in 1969. He began his career in Yakshagana in the Bacchagar troupe of Shunti Satyanarayana Bhat. Hudugodu Chandrahasa, Thumbri Bhaskara and Jalavalli Madhava Nayak were the three artistes who started their Yakshagana career together.

Later he associated himself with Saligrama and other Yakshagana troupes. He was very decent and cultured person. His acting had the glimpses of the famous artiste Gode Narayana Hegde. Chandrahasa had stopped acting and joined politics when he was still in his prime. Nowadays he used to perfom only as an amateur artist.

Chandrahasa was very well-versed in playing antagonist roles like Kaurava, Kartyaveeya, Salva and Kichaka. With the death of Hudugodu Chandrahasa, the Yakshagana field has lost one more jewel.