Sphoorthi Theatre

When asked to name the Puppeteers or puppet practitioners from Maharashtra, you get to hear only the present-day well-known practitioners like Meena Naik - an Indian actress, director, writer, and puppeteer from Mumbai or Ramdas Padhye - an Indian ventriloquist, puppeteer, and puppet-maker who has 40 plus years of experience. Little when further interrogated then  about Shri Vishnu Das Bhave -and Ganpat Sakhram Masge (Sangeet Natak Academy Awardee 2005)-the traditional puppeteers (can also refer to my previous blog post on “Kalasutri Bahuliya and Chamdyacha Bahuliya-traditional puppet forms of Maharashtra” Shri Vishnu Das Bhave well known as the father of Marathi Theatre is a multi-facet personality-Engineer, poet, puppeteer, and scrupulous crafts man.  Got to know in one of the theatre conferences that the 150 years old puppets of Vishnu Das Bhave traveled to Mr. Ramdas Padhye through a  known source for the rev...

Sri Vedanta Desikar Ghatotagaja Traditional Tamilian Wedding Vishwarupam Ratnaharam Nitya Soorigal Navaratri is a time when many homes in the southern states of India especially in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka have a festivity of nine days of celebrations with colours, vratams, music, and food. A significant part of the Navaratri festival in this region includes the tradition of the Bommai , which is a creation of an assembly of dolls that signify the richness and diversity of life. (Bommai means doll, and Golu means the display or artistic display). 'Golu' in Tamil and 'Kolu' in Telugu. It is believed that this creation is born from the Mother Divine, and Navaratri is the time for one to remember, revere and worship the source - the Devi. Navratri is celebrated four times a year: In one year period, four Navarathri are observed and devoted for attribution on the lotus feet of Mother Goddess. Of the four Navarathri that two Navarathri, namely o...