Other Traditional Theatre / ಇತರ ಸಾಂಪ್ರದಾಯಿಕ ಕಲಾಪ್ರಕಾರ
Divatige is a torch that radiates light from a burning wick, fed by any organic oil. It may be fixed at a point or held by hand and moved around to illuminate the immediate surroundings. Naturally its light is soft, dim and fluctuating. Now imagine a situation where...
Other Traditional Theatre / ಇತರ ಸಾಂಪ್ರದಾಯಿಕ ಕಲಾಪ್ರಕಾರ
HE AUSTERE Moghul emperor Aurangazeb spent the last eighteen years of his life (1689 – 1707) quelling the rebel chiefs of South India and the Western Ghats. The sturdiest resistance was from Shivaji, who led the expert guerilla warriors, the Marahtas. The...
Other Traditional Theatre / ಇತರ ಸಾಂಪ್ರದಾಯಿಕ ಕಲಾಪ್ರಕಾರ
NORTH India has two extremes of folk theater: the secular Nautanki and Naqal, and the religious Ramlila and Raslila. Nautanki, an operatic drama, is performed in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Rajasthan. The earliest dramas of this form were called sangeets (musicals). One...
Other Traditional Theatre / ಇತರ ಸಾಂಪ್ರದಾಯಿಕ ಕಲಾಪ್ರಕಾರ, Profile / ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ ಸಂಘಟನೆ
Balwant Gargi searching for his material on Indian folk theatre traveled widely to villages, shrines, and country fairs all over India, interviewed over 400 actors and dancers, took over 5000 photographs. Of these, 62 were selected to illustrate this most unusual...
Other Traditional Theatre / ಇತರ ಸಾಂಪ್ರದಾಯಿಕ ಕಲಾಪ್ರಕಾರ
THE FOLK theater is impolite, rude, vulgar. It shocks prudes. The secular forms – Tamasha, Nautanki and Naqal – dominating the northern and western parts of India are replete with sexual jokes. It is considered improper for women to watch these plays. In...