New Delhi: Doing anything for 108 hours non-stop is a feat in itself. But when it’s the art of sacred dance-drama, the act becomes unusual.
A man from Dharmapuri, a small town in Tamil Nadu, in an attempt to popularise Bharatnatyam, has danced for 108 hours non-stop, which he claims, should merit being recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records.
M Sridharan, a dance teacher by profession in Salem danced to 1,468 musical tunes continuously for almost five days from December 20.
Sridharan claims to have broken the previous record of dancing for 100 hours set by Arulanantham Suresh Joachim, a Canadian of Sri Lankan Tamil ancestry.
However, there was no independent verification of his claim of creating or breaking a world record.
"Previously a record of 100 hours was made by Joachim of Canada in individual dancing. I have broken it now," news agency ANI quoted Sridharan as saying.
Sridharan, who belongs to a middle-class family, always wanted to do something distinct in life.
Bharatnatyam, born centuries ago in the temples of South India, is a highly complex art form.
It is also the most widely practised classical dance form in southern India beside being the most ancient of all the classical dance forms performed in India, which are based on Natya Shastra, the Bible of the classical Indian dance.
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