Film Classical Dances of Vineeth

For some time, I've been curious to find all of Vineeth's classical dance numbers in film.  From what I've seen, he seems to be the best male classical dancer in Indian films, certainly surpassing the much more well-known Kamal Hassan.  Trained in Bharatanatyam from a young age and an award winner at Kerala youth festivals, he was clearly very talented from the start!

But there didn't seem to be that many film dances available of him, and I figured there must be hidden treasures lying in the archives of Malayalam cinema featuring such a great dancer.  Online resources and interviews weren't any help and only alluded to many unnamed films that contained his dances.  Even his official website is sparse and defunct.  So, I went on one of my obsessive research journeys through Vineeth's filmography and tracked down all of the DVDs and online clips available.  Imdb.com's filmography isn't complete, but malayalasangeetham.info helped fill in the rest (and is a fantastic resource for older Malayalam films that I learned of at the Old Malayalam Cinema blog).

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