Bhopal hosts puppet festival.Byline: ANI Bhopal, May 17 (ANI): Hundreds of people visited a three-day puppet puppet, human or animal figure, generally of a small size and performing on a miniature stage, manipulated by an unseen operator who usually speaks the dialogue. festival here in which entertaining skits were performed by various artistes. Organised at the popular Rabindar Bhavan between May 12 to 14, the festival was a hit among the young and old alike. Children, in particular, enjoyed the event the most, as they had gala time at the festival dancing and rejoicing attractive performances of puppets. "I liked the elephant puppet and the monkey dance at the show. I liked the first puppet act of the show," said Kriti, a young girl visitor at the puppet festival. Also, the festival brought together different puppet theatre groups from across the country to display their puppetry puppetry Art of creating and manipulating puppets in a theatrical show. Puppets are figures that are moved by human rather than mechanical aid. They may be controlled by one or several puppeteers, who are screened from the spectators. skills. "I am from the Kolkata Puppet Theatre group. I am very happy to be here. We have got good reception. We are going to perform 'Black Deer' puppet show today," said Shika Dutta of Kolkata Puppet Theatre Group. Shikha also stated that events like these with ample patronage would help the puppetry and puppet artistes gain more scope to exhibit their skills. It would also earn them more popularity among the younger generation, the kids in particular. Various puppets group from West Bengal West Bengal: see Bengal. West Bengal State (pop., 2001: 80,176,197), northeastern India. It is bordered by Nepal and Bangladesh and the states of Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim, Assam, and Meghalaya and has an area of 34,267 sq mi (88,752 sq km); , Assam, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (mäd`yə prä`dĭsh), state (2001 provisional pop. 60,385,118), 119,010 sq mi (308,240 sq km), central India, between the Deccan and the Ganges plain. The capital is Bhopal. participated in this gala and colourful colourful or US colorful Adjective 1. with bright or richly varied colours 2. vivid or distinctive in character Adj. 1. festival. Puppetry is a traditional art form, whose popularity is fast declining, as the modern-day entertainment options like television, movies and Internet are fast displacing it particularly in the urban areas. By R. C. Sahu (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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