page_title: Idaikattur
section_title: Pascaa - The greatest stage drama forever
hierarchical_section_title: Idaikattur / Pascaa - The greatest stage drama forever
caption_attribution_description: English: The scene of Judgement on Jesus by pylotes
context_page_description: Idaikattur is a village panchayat in Sivaganga district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
  Idaikattur - quiet village and holy place for two faiths
context_section_description: Pascaa is a Festival that was celebrated by the Israel people in ancient days. Pascaa means crossing past. Here in Idaikattur, this festival is being celebrated for two days by the villagers on the next Friday and Saturday of the Good Friday, every year, for the past 139 years. In this event, the Life history of Jesus is staged as a drama, up to the death of Christ on the first day and up to the ascension on the second day.
  The whole drama was scripted from Bible by a group of uneducated villagers, called " ANNAVIYAR" and the dialogues are never changed for this 3 generations which coincide anywhere and anytime in the common life. Based on the ancient Tamil cultural dramas of Tamil Nadu, this epic attracts tens of thousands of people from across the country. The lyrics of the songs of the drama which were penned by the same Annaviyar, composed with a mixture of western and classical music before 139 years, are proved as the best classicals of the two centuries.
  The artists, numbering to a 100, are all the nativities of the village, inherit the ancient farmers of the village, who are in high positions of the society gather on this particular dates in the village from all over the world to submit themselves to the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Idaikattur.
  The whole programme is a citadel for all the villagers apart from their religion and community.
  The 139th year of pascaa is scheduled on 1 and 2 April 2016.
  The proposal for the Guinness record is also submitted and is in process.
caption: scene from pascca
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