Puppetry is an ancient and popular form of folk entertainment. In Rajasthan most puppets are string puppets which is the most common type of puppet found in india. They are called kathputlisfrom kathmeaning wood and pultimeaning doll. kathputliswear brightly colored costumes which are fashioned by the puppeteers from scraps of cloth. Traditional puppeteers are from the wandering Bhatt community who have been performing for thousands of years. They go from village to village presenting popular stories of heroes and divinities.

Colorful puppets are sold by street vendors throughout Rajasthan. They are very inexpensive and make excellent gifts. If you have the time, it might be worthwhile to search for an old puppet.

The main innovation adopted by traditional puppet groups is to mount their traditional puppet-stage on the proscenium stage of today. Since puppetry has achieved technical sophistication, the puppet-stage is set on the proscenium stage with modern lights and props, -- not found feasible in the traditional fairs and festivals earlier. Since all traditional puppets are heavily influenced by the folk-form of their regions and derive their themes, costumes, styles and music from them, folk theatre and puppetry have always complemented each other. Traditional puppetry mainly showed puppets performing dances to the vocal or instrumental music accompaniment as still seen in Murshidabad district and Santhal tribes. Since Bengali folk theatre is dominated by the Yatra form, which imbibed clarinet in its concerts during the British time, the puppet theatre, too, added concerts to their opening overtures using clarinet. A further development was to add the word ‘Opera’ to the name of the puppet theatre, carried forward by many puppet groups more than 100years old. Like Yatra again, the puppet plays added stories to the dances. The stories were initially balladic in nature with dominant song-and-dance sequences. Later on, the stories of puppet plays, like Yatra, changed into epic, historical, social and even political themes, often cleverly blended with a balladic form

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