The Durga Pooja staged at the Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum was not less than a delightful experience for the Bhopalites. As the puppets were made to dance on Goddess Durga Stuti was one of its kinds experience.
Marking the third day of Putul Samaroh 2018 ‘Durga Pooja and Bhago Baagh Aaya’ were performed at Tribal Museum here on Friday.
The Bhopalites were astonished to watch the hand glove puppets and rod puppets performance on the stage.
The performance was directed by Dilip Mandal from Kolkata West Bengal. The event began with Durga Pooja. The puppeteers beautifully staged Durga Pooja on stage that was much loved by the audience. To begin with the presentation Durga Stuti was performed. The puppeteers made the puppets dance presenting the forms of goddess Durga.
The Mahisasur Vadh was staged during presenting the story of goddess Durga. It was mesmerizing sight for the Bhopalites to watch the show. Later, a story ‘Bhago Sher Aaya’ was performed with hand gloves puppet style.
Puppet handlers introduced the presentation of the puppetry dance on the folk song of Bengali language in the glove and rod style. After this, the tiger and the sticks have been staged in the style of staging the story. This story was presented by artists on stage with their puppet skills. According to the story, a cow feeding boy lives, whenever he goes away from the village to feed his cows, he yells that the lion has come, the lion has come. When the villages were gathered then it was a joke. It continued for so many days, the boy came to the lion, the lion came screaming and all the people of the village gathered. But when one day the boy shouted lion, the lion came and no one came and the boy ate the boy.
Following the staging of this story, artists displayed their puppet skills on Bengali folk songs. At the end of this presentation, Dilip Mandal, with his fellow artists, praised Mother Durga and Maa's Yasho with puppet operating skills.