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Shilpa Mudbi Kothakota is a folk performer and documentary filmmaker who has been playing Jogathis music around Karnataka. She is a first-generation urbanite and has a deep sense of connection to her ancestors. She has spent many years working in the Karnataka hinterlands as a videographer, capturing rural lifestyles and cultural politics. She is an academy student at Janapada. Her project, the Urban Folk project, was started in 2017 with the Jogathis and the o research musical genres that are a part of their culture.

Her journey as an artist was primarily about recognizing and bridging the gaps in the tradition or even just understanding why there is a gap. She is currently focusing on Yellammaanata, a kind of art that is practiced by members of the Devadasi and Jogathi (transgender) communities in Bidar, Kalaburagi, and Ballari.  The folk form has strong ties to underprivileged populations and is connected to the worship of the goddess Renuka Yellamma Udho Udho Sri Renuka Yellamma is a mythological Ka >> Read More... .

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Born: 2 May 1939

Age Now 85

R. N. Sudarshan - (Movie Actor)

Born: 2 May 1989

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Alok R. Babu - (Music Director)

Born: 2 May 1995

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Ankitha - Actress - (TV-Actress)

Born: 2 May 1992

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Manya Anand - (Dancer)

Born: 2 May 1991

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Shyamili Nayar - (Actress)

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Born: 1 May 1990

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