Hema Malini shares Hyderabad Durga ballet performance

Photographs from the October 11 performance

Hema Malini has shared photographs of her Durga ballet performance at the Classic Convention Centre in Hyderabad. NDTV and The Times of India reported the update on Tuesday, describing the event as part of Agarwal Samaj Telangana’s Agra Dandiya Navratri celebrations.

The performance took place on October 11, the first day of Navratri, and also marked Maharaja Agrasen Jayanti. The date matters: Tuesday’s reports concern photographs and an account of that earlier performance, rather than a show staged on October 13.

Classical dance and mythological storytelling

The Times of India describes the photographs as showing Malini portraying Mata Parvati alongside an artiste playing Lord Shiva. The images belong to the production she presented; they do not establish a new film role or a separate screen project.

In her accompanying message, Malini described the occasion as a special experience and said she felt blessed. Her remarks refer to performing a familiar ballet during the festival. The reports do not announce a tour itinerary or provide ticketing details for another performance.

The actor’s connection to Bharatanatyam has continued alongside her film career. Her stage work uses classical movement, expressive storytelling and costumes to present stories from mythology.

A longer history of ballet productions

NDTV also recalls an older interview in which Malini credited her father with encouraging her to venture into ballet productions. She identified Meera as Natyavihar Kala Kendra’s debut production and Ramayana as another work in that journey.

Those older recollections are context for her dance practice, not statements newly made at the Hyderabad event. Keeping that distinction preserves the chronology of both the recent performance and the artistic history around it.

For audiences who primarily know Malini through cinema, the Hyderabad photographs offer a reminder of her parallel work on stage. This update is about that particular October 11 presentation, with no claim that the published images document a new performance today.