A six-day puppet festival ‘Putul Samaroh’ will begin from Saturday at Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum. The festival is being organised by Tribal Folk Art and language Development (Adivasi lok Kala Boli Vikas).
The festival will begin from February 24 and will continue till March 1. Artists and puppeteers from across the country are participating in this festival to showcase their talent before the Bhopalites. During the event, a special exhibition of puppets ‘Putli Ghar’ and a puppet workshop on the puppet art will also be held.
The ceremony will be inaugurated on Saturday, in which artist from Andhra Pradesh S Hanumanthu Rao will present the ‘Kichak slaughter’ in the style of Shado puppet show. On 25 February i.e. Sunday, Dilip Masoom from Bhopal will perform folk tale in the thread puppet show style.
On February 26 i.e. Monday, Rajendra Kumar Shrivastav from Uttar Pradesh will present Ramayana through hand puppets.
On February 27, Vibhad Upadhyay from Chhattisgarh will present Bharthari Saga in hand puppet style.
On February 28, Amar Singh Rathore’s folklore will be narrated through thread puppets by lala Bhat from New Delhi.
The event will have a closure on March 1 wherein laxman Bharti from Bhopal will perform the Veer Teja Ji story in the traditional puppet style.
Besides a special exhibition on Puppet Art will start from February 24 at 12 noon and will be organized till 3 pm to which will be conducted by Sudeep Gupta from Dolls Theater Calcutta.
Participants will be made aware of the origin of puppet creation and their performance in this workshop. During this, the curious participants of puppetry art can also interact with artists.