The Bhopalites were told about the story of Raja Bharathi through marvelous puppetry show. The Glove styled Puppetry show was organized at Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum on Tuesday. Marking third day of Putul Samaroh, puppeteer Vishnesh Kumar Upadhyay presented a splendid show before the Bhopalites.
Vishnesh Kumar Upadhyay, who came from Chhattisgarh presented Bhathari folk story in "Glove Puppet Style". Beautiful folk-tale scenes with folklore and dialogue were shown by puppets. On this stage, small children made the folk-legume beautiful by handling the puppets.
The mouthpiece of these puppets is made of paper (kutti), cloth or wood and both hands get out from under the neck.
On the name of the rest of the body there is only one wavy sweatshirt. The method of operation is very simple.
The puppet operator controls his activities with his own hands.
In Indian history and folklore, 'Raja Bharthari' is the hero of many folk stories in North India.
He was the ruler of Ujjain in the 1st century BC, before renouncing the world and abdicating in the favor of his younger brother Vikramaditya and became a follower of Guru Gorakhnath and along with his nephew Gopi Chand went to the Guru's hill abode in northern Punjab.
Upadhyaya associated with the Rang Forum has been displaying the puppet style of glove for many years.
On TuesdayUpadhyay, along with lal Babu, Gokul Chaturvedi, Aarti Jain, Rakesh Deshmukh, Deepak Sahu, Mansi Yadav, Shreya Rajput, Karuna Gupta and Gajanand Yadav, performed the puppet show.
It is to be noted, Glove puppetry is a type of opera using cloth puppets that originated during the 17th century in Quanzhou of China's Fujian province, and it had since established itself contemporarily as a popular art form across the world.