Kottayam NazeerIn an eagerness to cover more items in a limited time and to make an impression, participants tend to increase the speed of their performance, which affects perfection, criticized Kottayam Nazeer, who was a professional mimicry artist before making it to movies.
"It's always better to take up voices which match the performers' own sound. For instance, girls are trying to imitate male voices while there are many versatile female voices they could take up easily," said Nazeer.
He added that there is an overflow of topic repetitions on youth festival mimicry venues. "I watched a couple of performances last day. Many of them share the same topic, which are more related to the current political or social scenario. When the participants are forced to limit their performance into the five minutes, they tend to speed up their performances. Every voice has a meter and every person has a pattern of sound variation. Speeding up pulls them back from meeting these criteria," Nazeer said.
That old prize-winning talent
Though Kottayam Nazeer is famous for his mimicking and acting skills, there is a forgotten prize-winning painter deep in him. Nazeer had bagged several prizes in state and district level youth festivals, not in mimicry or mono act, but in drawing, painting, cartoon drawing and clay modeling.
"I was never into mimicry or mono act venues during my schooldays. I have bagged first prizes and A grades in drawing, painting, cartoon drawing and clay modeling, both in district level and state level youth festivals. I'm a drawing school alumni where I joined straight after my 10th," Nazeer said.
