Gammat Jammat Events Dolls conference in Pune
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...