Puppet Show and lecture on puppetry were held on Sunday at Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum. Vilas Janave, Udaipur presented a lecture and Dilip Masoom from Bhopal presented a puppet show.
The presentation commenced with the lecture by Janve, remembering his mentor, the late Ajay Paul and the late Padmashree Devi Lal Samar, saying that in many states of our country there has been an ancient tradition of pupil art where thread, rod, shade and
Thread effigy is a thread effigy of Rajasthan Bhat artists in which they stage the story of Amarsingh Rathore. His puppet play is shown in Tambadi. Even today people present old stories through puppet performances and try to innovate in them over time.In the context of the traditional Chhaya Purni, he said that in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the display of mannequins is made from behind the big screen. It is accompanied by dialogues and songs in Sanskrit and Malayalam along with the traditional instruments Chenda, Ezhupara and Elattalam. Janve showed them some examples of pupils and defined them. He discussed in detail about the glove puppet and shared the new experiments done in the puppet with the audience. Mr. Janve said that the artist will also have to change himself according to the changes in the past. The brilliance of the pupil art is effective in keeping the viewer engaged, but maintaining that specialty is a big challenge.Janve is an artist and a knowledgeable of arts. His long and deep experience has been with the artists of the country and in this long time he has associated many artists with himself and has also been associated with them. Vilas Janve also has deep knowledge of the arts and artists of the country and is himself a skilled and well-known artist of theater and mime.The second performance was the folkloric performance of Bawa Ramdev Maharaj in the thread effigy style by Dilip Masoom, in which the story of King Ajmal of Naukoti Marwar was displayed through a puppet.
