Padmanabhan Nair

Male, Deceased Person

1928 – 2007

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Who was Padmanabhan Nair?

Kalamandalam Padmanabhan Nair was an eminent Kathakali exponent, equally known for his capacities as a tutor, theoretician and author of a few authentic texts on the classical dance-drama from Kerala in south India. A son of the Kathakali guru Pattikkamthodi Ravunni Menon, Padmanabhan Nair was one of the early-batch students in Kerala Kalamandalam, where he subsequently joined as a teacher and retired as its principal in 1990. He died on April 3, 2007, at his home in Shoranur, near his alma mater, where he led his post-professorial life with wife and Mohiniyattam practitioner, Kalamandalam Sathyabhama.

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Born
1928
India
Education
  • Kalamandalam Deemed University of Art and Culture
Died
Apr 3, 2007

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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