A scene from the play ‘Thambi’. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The seed of Erode Nadaga Kottagai was sown during a memorial meeting of Tamil theater stalwart, late N Muthuswamy, founder of the popular Chennai-based theater group. Kuthu-P-Pattarai. Erode-based theater actor V. Sathish Kumar spent two years with Kuthu-P-Pattarai, which has trained hundreds of actors over five decades. He started Erode Nadaga Kottagai in 2019 on the first death anniversary of Muthuswamy.
“Today, there are ten people in our theater group, most of whom are school and college students,” says N Pranesh, a member. The team, which has staged over 200 shows in Palakkad and Thrissur in Kerala and in places like Chennai, Coimbatore and Puducherry besides national theater festivals, is set to present a play titled Thambi this weekend.
published – April 24, 2026 05:13 PM IST