The art of storytelling of 16th Century ‘Dastan-Goi’ will again spread its charisma among the theatre buffs of the city.
An event ‘Dastan-Goi’ will be organised on Saturday. The event will be held at Bharat Bhavan.
Interestingly, Dastaan-Goi artists will be performing on stage. They will perform Dastaan e Raag Darbari. It will be directed by Mehmood Farooqi and will be performed by Anusha Rizvi.
Dastaan-Goi is a years’ old tradition of storytelling. The art was again brought to life in India during the year 2005.
It is to be noted that Dastan-Goi is a compound of two Persian words Dastan and goi which means to tell a Dastan.
Dastans were epics, often oral in nature, which were recited or read aloud and in essence, were like medieval romances everywhere. Telling tales of adventure, magic and warfare, Dastans mapped new worlds and horizons. The hero’s adventures could sometimes parallel the mystic quest, at other times the story narrated a purely profane tale. It was that Rumi’s Masnavi and Arabian Nights both came to contain many stories from the Panchtantra tradition.
The main feature of Dastaan-Goi is the voice of the artists and the art of voice modulation. “It is all about the imagination that all matters in Dastaan-Goi.