The magico-medicine men of the Indian state of Kerala are well-known in the globe for performing a ritual dance, which is recognized as Padayani or Padeni. Padayani is performed to pay the tribute to the warriors and this dance is full of music, dance, theatre, satire, facial masks, and paintings. Padayani is the specially related with the Bhadrakali temples where the goddess Kali is worshipped.
Padayani, the Ritual Dance of Kerala is the basic and at the same time complicated compilations of assumptions. It surpasses time. It is attached to the archetypal tendentiousness. Padayani has the interdependence of absolute glamour of adornment, costume, dance and theatrical languages. A significant attraction of padayani is the song related with it. Traditionally only a single sort of instrument is employed to associate the song, thappu. The songs are in basic malayalam and have been handed down from the ancestors more than the years.
Padayani, the Ritual Dance of Kerala is celebrated primarily in the months of February and March. Padayani has primarily a series of divine and semi-divine impersonations wearing enormous masks or kolams of distinct shapes, colours and desingns painted on the stalks of arecanut fronds. There are more than fifty effectively recognized folk dances in Kerala. Of them the Kaliyattom, Mudiettu, Kolam thullal, Kolkali, Poorakkali, Valakali, Kamapadavukali, Kanniyarkali, Parichamuttukali, Thappukali, Kuravarkali and Thiruvathirakali are most common.
