ROOHA MEDIA

Marggam kali is one of the ancient forms of group dances in kerala performed by St Thomas Christians .Margam Kali pattu text comprises of fourteen stanzas which narrate the life and work of Saint Thomas the Apostle in Kerala. It retells how the Apostle landed in Malabar, how he healed the sick, won converts, how he established churches or communities and undertook missions to China and how in the end died as a martyr in Mylapore. The Margam Kali pattu are akin to the old ballads of Hindu Malabar called PayannoorPattu or the ballads in honor of AromalChevar, who was the famous Ezhava hero.