Sankalp Meshram’s film on Bharatanatyam dancer Alarmel Valli screened for an invited audience in three theatres in Chennai in November this year, has been critically acclaimed as one of the finest attempts in portraying the life of an artist Lasya Kavya. (Directors G. Aravindan and Prakash Jha have made films on Alarmel Valli.) In the film, Zubin Mehta, Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, Mrs. Y.G. Parthasarathy, Chitravina Ravikiran and Bombay Jayashri paid glowing tributes to Alarmel Valli and her art.