Rajasthan, March 19 Jaisalmer: Puppeteer's: Puppet show
Director: Anushka Meenakshi, Iswar Srikumar; Cinematographer: Anushka Meenakshi, Iswar Srikumar
Duration: 00:13:20; Aspect Ratio: 1.778:1; Hue: 35.035; Saturation: 0.227; Lightness: 0.345; Volume: 0.421; Cuts per Minute: 1.949
Summary: Raju
is eleven years old and a fantastic singer. We bumped into his family on our
second day in Jaisalmer as we were wandering around what is known as the
‘artists’ colony’ where local puppeteers, musicians and dancers live. His
father, Ramesh, who is a traditional katputhli puppeteer, was working at making
some new puppets while we were there. Raju’s sister was insanely jealous of him
and sulked the entire time we were there because her brother was singing and
getting all the attention. The women in this family are not involved in the
puppetry in any way. We also went and saw Ramesh’s puppet show at the ‘Desert
Cultural Centre’ later that evening. The show at the Centre happens thrice a
day, every day, and is wonderfully entertaining, but sadly, as Ramesh himself
told us, because of short attention spans and the fact that they can afford to
have only puppeteer, they are unable to perform any of their longer stories and
have to stick to doing short item-number type pieces, with single puppets doing
a whole lot of acrobatic movement, and set to popular music. Despite this, the
show was really lovely – there is one piece about a boy who is playing with his
ball and then loses it, which really stood out in the way the boy puppet moved
and emoted.
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