Gulab Bai (ePub)
The Queen of Nautanki Theatre
(Sprache: Englisch)
For nearly a century, Nautanki reigned as north India's most popular form of entertainment, and Gulab Bai shone as its brightest star.
Fusing dance and dialogue, music and romance, humour and melodrama, this travelling folk theatre was a precursor to...
Fusing dance and dialogue, music and romance, humour and melodrama, this travelling folk theatre was a precursor to...
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For nearly a century, Nautanki reigned as north India's most popular form of entertainment, and Gulab Bai shone as its brightest star.
Fusing dance and dialogue, music and romance, humour and melodrama, this travelling folk theatre was a precursor to Bollywood. In cities and villages, people watched all night, drawn into a world of fantasy and make-believe.
Gulab, a twelve-year-old girl from the Bedia caste, joined Nautanki in 1931. Reputed to be the first female actor in Nautanki, she rose to dizzy heights as the heroine of countless dramas and later started the Great Gulab Theatre Company. Gulab Bai was awarded the Padmashree, a mark of national honour—yet she died sad and disillusioned, for the form to which she had devoted her life was languishing.
To tell Gulab Bai's story—and reconstruct the social history of a genre —Deepti Priya Mehrotra travelled to Gulab's village and Kanpur's Rail Bazaar, met family members and co-artistes, gathered oral narratives, traced drama scripts and song recordings. The tale that emerges is a wonderfully intimate portrayal of a dying art and its uncrowned queen. The cover is adapted from Gulab Bai's record jacket by the Gramophone Company of India Ltd, part of the EMI group
Fusing dance and dialogue, music and romance, humour and melodrama, this travelling folk theatre was a precursor to Bollywood. In cities and villages, people watched all night, drawn into a world of fantasy and make-believe.
Gulab, a twelve-year-old girl from the Bedia caste, joined Nautanki in 1931. Reputed to be the first female actor in Nautanki, she rose to dizzy heights as the heroine of countless dramas and later started the Great Gulab Theatre Company. Gulab Bai was awarded the Padmashree, a mark of national honour—yet she died sad and disillusioned, for the form to which she had devoted her life was languishing.
To tell Gulab Bai's story—and reconstruct the social history of a genre —Deepti Priya Mehrotra travelled to Gulab's village and Kanpur's Rail Bazaar, met family members and co-artistes, gathered oral narratives, traced drama scripts and song recordings. The tale that emerges is a wonderfully intimate portrayal of a dying art and its uncrowned queen. The cover is adapted from Gulab Bai's record jacket by the Gramophone Company of India Ltd, part of the EMI group
Autoren-Porträt von Deepti Priya Mehrotra
Deepti Priya Mehrotra graduated from St. Stephen's College, and has a doctorate in political science from Delhi University. She carried out independent research supported by fellowships awarded by India Foundation for the Arts, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Indian Council for Philosophical Research. Her interests include feminist thought, people's movements, education and theatre. She works with several civil society organizations as an activist and researcher. Deepti coordinated Charkha, a developmental communication network, for some years, and currently teaches Developmental Communication and Traditional Media as well as Gender and Schooling at Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University. She writes in English and Hindi. Her publications include Home Truths: Stories of Single Mothers (Penguin, 2003), Ekal Maa (Books for Change, 2002), Bharatiya Mahila Andolan (BFC, 2001), Western Philosophy and Indian Feminism (1998) and A Passion for Freedom: Kisanin Jaggi Devi (Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 2005). She lives in New Delhi with her daughter.
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- Autor: Deepti Priya Mehrotra
- 2018, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 9353052408
- ISBN-13: 9789353052409
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.08.2018
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