Timestamp: Dec-3 2018
Location: Dakshina Chitra Museum
Woowwww awesome experience!!!
1st time in my life I am watching this #tholpavakoothu (#puppetshow) in LIVE.
15min Show- the little #lordkrishna story with real-time comedy, action and dance
After the show, I met show operator @nathamani one man doing this show, female and male modulation voice’s, comedy, music etcc….
Excellent skill !!!….
We enjoyed a lot.
He told about his heritage, they are playing this art for 15 generations he learned this skill from his father A Selvaraja …
This is the 1st cinema for more than 1000 years ago, their origin is from #thanjavur
This #tholpavakoothu played in front of Kings and people!!! With the lot of stories from #Ramayana and #Mahabharatham
His father played this show in #kamalhaasan movie #dasavatharam in the song “Mukundha Mukundha”
Puppet material made up of leather (thol). with the use of sticks, he moved each characters body joints.
Also, he told about how our heritage cultures are reducing in number.
He left his High paying MNC job and learned #tholpavakoothu fully from his father and Doing stage shows.
I realized Nathan S / Nathamani ( puppeteer) has is 15 generations heritage proof of is legacy in the form of #tholpavakoothu.
But for me, nothing is there😥
Note:
I enclosed his contact number if you guys need to watch this show in functions or events, plz call him.
A. Selvaraja NO:9444671029 / Nathamani(son) NO: 9962447590
We need to support our culture!!!!
~DarkEnergy
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