On the auspicious occasion of Mother's day on May 13, 2012, Bay Area Telugu Association (BATA) in association with Sri Satyanarayana Swamy Temple in Milpitas, California organized "Harikatha” on “Sri Srinivasa Kalyanam”. The guests of all age groups had great devotional time and witnessed highly accomplished Harikatha performance by the well-known Bhagavatharini, Smt. Jayanti Savithri of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD). The event was conducted at Sri Satyanarayana Swamy Temple in Milpitas, California. There were over 200 guests at the event in spite of the day being a Mother's day holiday.
The venue was well decorated with the temple tradition and the performance was right in the premises of temple, which made the event a special. In the introduction, Sri. Venu Aasuri of BATA stated that Harikatha is a composite art form comprising of storytelling, poetry, music, drama, dance, and philosophy. It is one of our traditional art form through which we used to learn many devotional stories. Venu welcomed Smt. Jayanti Savithri on to the stage by indicating that we are very fortunate to have Smt. Savithri with us today to perform the Harikatha on Srinivasa Kalyanam.
Smt. Jayanti Savithri started the program by thanking BATA and Sri Satyanarayana Swamy Temple for giving her the opportunity to perform. Smt. Jayanthi’s inspired rendition of Sri Srinivasa Kalyanam moved the audience, and her gestures and dance while telling the story made as if the audience were watching the real happenings. Smt. Jayanthi’s immense performance showed her expertise and heart into the Harikatha! She displayed the mastery in poetry, literature, dance, drama, and music in abundance and enthralled the guests with a re-telling of Srinivasa Kalyanam with kirthanas and bhajans, all sung melodiously to the music tracks that she has. All the guests enchanted "govinda..govinda" along with her, also guests joined their tunes with her for all kirthanas during the performance. Smt. Jayanti Savithri's humbleness and respect to the art and guests made the event very special on a Mother's day. She inspired the guests by stating the importance of mother and parents to the mankind. The fact that the guests sat throughout Harikatha without taking any break for almost 3 hours is a testimonial to the enjoyable performance.
Jagadeesh Babu, President of Sri Satyanarayana Swamy Temple, expressed happiness for being part of this event, and he stated that their team always supports devotional and musical events. Jagadeesh then introduced the temple committee members. The temple team felicitated Smt. Jayanti Savithri with shawl and a gift.
The afternoon ended with felicitation of Smt. Jayanti Savithri by BATA members with shawl and a gift in appreciation of performance. Speaking at this occasion, Vijaya Aasuri of BATA praised Smt. Jayanti Savithri's dedication and expertise in the Harikatha art form, and said that it is a rare opportunity for the Bay Area people to attend this event. Vijaya thanked all the guests and Management of Sri Satyanarayana Swamy Temple for making this event successful and very special on the mother's day. Also, BATA raffled jewelry items and pattu sarees as gifts to the guests. It was very gratifying moment to see when senior and young moms receiving the raffled gifts from the hands of Savithri on the stage.
Speaking at this event, Ramesh Konda (President of BATA) thanked Smt. Jayanti Savithri for a wonderful Harikatha performance which illustrated Srinivasa Kalyanam just like reality. Then, Ramesh introduced the BATA committee members and volunteers on the stage. BATA committee consists of Ramesh Konda, Kamesh Malla, Kalyan Kattamuri, Sirisha Battula, Yaswanth Kudaravalli, Jyotsna Bendapudi, Kondal Komaragiri, Sumanth Pusuluri, Vijaya Aasuri, Veeru Vuppala, and volunteers who have helped with the event were Srilu Veligeti, Prasad Mangina, Sridevi Pasupuleti, Venu Aasuri, Karun Veligeti, Shiva Kada, Deepti Kottari, Durga Kondal, Srinivas Ramayanam, Srikar Boddu, and many others.
