{"id":4490,"date":"2026-05-13T04:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/?p=4490"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:32:12","slug":"96-years-old-mimicry-artiste-receives-seva-rathna-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/?p=4490","title":{"rendered":"96 years old mimicry artiste receives Seva Rathna award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>R. Srinivasan (96 years old Udayarpalayam, resident of West Mambalam) received Seva Rathna award for AL4S Charitable Trust in a function held on May 2 at Infosys Hall, Sri RKM School, T.Nagar.<br>The award was presented by H.V. Hande (EX.Minsiter of Tamilnadu) in presence of S. Lalitha (Founder of AL4S Charitable Trust), Dr.N.Panchapakesan and\u00a0 Vaadyar Sooryanarayan (Program coordination).<br>Udayarpalayam R. Srinivasan is a renowned Tamil Nadu-based mimicry artiste famous for his contributions to the 1974 film Aval Oru Thodarkathai, specifically for creating sound effects in the song &#8220;Kadavul Amaithuvaitha Medai&#8221;. He is a seasoned artist who specialized in &#8216;Vikatam&#8217; (mimicry of sounds\/manners).<br>He was mentored by or inspired by the style of Thiruvisainallur Ramasamy Shastri and specializes in mimicking animal sounds, mannerisms of Carnatic musicians, and other sounds.<br>He honed his skills with regular practice. He agreed that the knowledge of music was vital for performing vikatam. Srinivasan is retired from the railway department.\u00a0<br>He received Kalaiamamani award from Tamilnadu State Government. He also performed various venues in Humour club meets, Lions clubs and Rotary\u00a0Clubs.<br>For more details contact: 98410 87380.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R. Srinivasan (96 years old Udayarpalayam, resident of West Mambalam) received Seva Rathna award for AL4S Charitable Trust in a function held on May 2 at Infosys Hall, Sri RKM School, T.Nagar.The award was presented by H.V. Hande (EX.Minsiter of Tamilnadu) in presence of S. Lalitha (Founder of AL4S Charitable Trust), Dr.N.Panchapakesan and\u00a0 Vaadyar Sooryanarayan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4492,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions\/4492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}