2024

An interracial love story set in 19th-century South India during the Great Madras Famine.

Conceptualised by Hanne M. de Bruin & P. Rajagopal - Tamil script: P. Rajagopal.

Pārvai is an Indian-Dutch cultural project in consultation with the artistic management of The National Ballet ( Het Nationale Ballet) in Amsterdam that is supported by the Netherlands Embassy in New Delhi.

120 mins | Language: Tamil with some English & Dutch

2021

Made during the Covid-19 pandemic, Tavam explores the constraints faced by professional women Kattaikkuttu performers.

Script & direction by P. Rajagopal -Production & costumes: Hanne M. de Bruin.

75 minutes | Language: Tamil

2017-2019

A collaborative production in which two equally complex performing art forms - “classical” Karnatic concert music and “folk” Kattaikkuttu theatre - meet to explore what they share, where they differ and how they speak to and with each other.

Karnatic Kattaikkuttu brought together Karnatic vocalist Thodur Madabusi Krishna; Kattaikkuttu actor, director, and playwright Perungattur Ponnusami Rajagopal; Karnatic vocalist Sangeetha Sivakumar; and myself as a scholar and dramaturg.