Sangeet Natak Akademi organizes Putul Utsav
Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi, an autonomous physique underneath the Ministry of Tradition, is organising Putul Utsav, a puppet pageant to mark World Puppetry Day on twenty first March 2022. With India celebrating 75 years of independence, the theme of the pageant is Azadi ke Rang, Putul Ke Sang consistent with the spirit of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav.
On this gala occasion, tales of India’s battle for freedom shall be retold by way of the medium of puppets. The pageant commencing on the twenty first of March, 2022 shall be celebrated by varied occasions in 5 totally different cities – Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), Hyderabad (Telangana), Angul district (Odisha), New Delhi and Agartala (Tripura).
Sangeet Natak Akademi organizes Putul Utsav
An attention-grabbing line-up of acts consists of performances by well-known puppeteers, each conventional and up to date, a seminar, demonstrations and workshops the place individuals can create their very own puppets and carry them again dwelling.
In Hyderabad and Varanasi, Putul Utsav is marked by three-day lengthy festivities from March 21 to March 23, 2022 whereas in Angul district, will probably be held on March 21 – 22. Delhi and Agartala have a one-day occasion on March 21, 2022. The programme unfold throughout totally different cities is as follows-
- Hyderabad- 21-23 March, Morning 10:00 am and night 7:00 pm on the CCRT amphitheatre
- Varanasi- 21-22 March, 7:00 pm onwards at Subah-e-Banaras, Assi Ghat and 23 March , 11:00 am onwards, at Deendayal Hastkala Sankul
- Angul- 21 March, Morning 10:00 am onwards and night 6:15 pm at Shriram Institute of Shadow Theatre and 22 March, Morning 10:00 am and night 6:15 pm onwards
- Agartala- 21 March, 12:00 midday at Muktadhara Auditorium
- New Delhi- 21 March, 2:00 pm at Jan Madhyam, Aya Nagar
Sangeet Natak Akademi organizes Putul Utsav
The artwork of puppetry has been an intercultural theatre custom since time immemorial, well-liked as a software for communication, schooling and recreation. Puppetry custom in India as effectively, goes again a great distance and the artwork has been written about in historic Indian literature just like the second century treatise on drama, Natyashastra and the Tamil textual content Silpaddikaram.
Puppetry was historically a temple-based artwork, narrative in nature whose themes had been borrowed from puranic literature, mythology, epics and native legends. We discover all 4 sorts of puppets historically in use right here – String, Shadow, Rod and Hand puppets. Ms Temsunaro Jamir, Secretary of Sangeet Natak Akademi provides that although puppet theatre in India nonetheless enjoys reputation, Putul Utsav will give it a renewed vigour as a brand new era of audiences is launched to conventional puppetry, an intangible cultural heritage of India.
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