Shri J Rathan Kumar

Andhranatyam Dancer & Guru

Kala Tapaswi Shri Rathan Kumar is a born artist and was interested in acting in female roles in theater dramas in his student life. He has acted in more than 1500 dramas. 
As he was inquisitive to learn classical dance he approached Bharatha Kala Prapoorna Dr. Nataraja Rama Krisha of Hyderabad and became his disciple and learned Temple Traditional Lasya Dance of Andhra Natyam i.e., the traditional Lasya Stage dance of the Andhra female artists. In the guise of a female, he plays the role of Satya Bhama in Nava Janardhana Parijatham to the astonishment of his audience as he cannot be recognized as a male.