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Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra echoed with the sounds of more giggles and laughter as famous contemporary puppeteer Swapan Roy enthralled the students of Delhi Public School and Maria Public School with a special show of his contemporary puppetry on the sixth day of 6th Indian Puppetry Festival. The show was enjoyed by not only the students but also the teachers in charge.
The ongoing workshop on puppetry got a real boost on the sixth day of the puppetry festival as the participants learned more about the art of puppetry making, especially glove and shadow puppetry, under the guidance national reputes puppeteers Hanumant Rao and H. Chandrasekhar. Later, the audiences were thoroughly entertained by Ramakrishna Kottapommalatta Company from Tamil Nadu with their traditional string puppetry play Panjali Shabdam. Natana Kairali, a traditional glove puppetry group from Kerala performed their famous play Duryodhana Vadha. The next play which entertained the audience was Kalia Daman, a string puppetry play of Manipur performed by Manipur’s famous string puppetry group Moppet Decoration and Cultural Centre, Imphal. Karna Parva, a traditional shadow puppetry play performed by Prasananjaney Brundam from Andhra Pradesh, was the last play to be staged on the day.
Tomorrow the puppetry festival will begin by the staging of Sabitri-Satyaban, a traditional string puppetry play, which will be performed by Thakurdas Saboni Putul Nach group from West Bengal. The next show to be followed will be the play Amar Singh Rathore, which will be performed by Dhanna Bhatt & Party, a traditional string puppetry group of Rajasthan. Sampoorna Ramayana, a traditional shadow puppetry play performed by Ravanachhaya Natya Sansad, a traditional shadow puppetry group of Orissa will follow next. MilanYadav & Group from Uttar Pradesh will then perform Gulabao-Sitabo, a traditional glove puppetry play which will be immediately followed by a contemporary puppetry play Kabir. Koyya Bommala Kala Brundam, a traditional string puppetry group from Andhra Pradesh will draw curtains for the day with their play Chenchu Lakshmi.
