India's Historic Theatres

27Mar,2024

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Maach is thought to have originated from the Khyal theatre form of Rajasthan which spread out of the state

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Maach

The Kohinoor Theatre is a mobile theatre group of the North-Eastern Indian state of Assam, founded by Sri Ratan Lahkar in 1976.

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Kohinoor Theatre

Ankia Naats are a class of one act plays performed in Assam, India.[1] The invention of the Ankia Naat is usually attributed to the medieval saint and social reformer Srimanta Sankardeva.

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Ankia Naat

Jatra is a popular folk-theatre form Bengali theatre, spread throughout most of Bengali speaking areas of the Indian subcontinent, including Bangladesh and Indian states of West Bengal, Assam, Odisha and Tripura

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Jatra

Nautanki is one of the most popular folk performance forms of South Asia, particularly in northern India. Before the advent of Bollywood. Nautanki was the biggest entertainment medium in the villages and towns of northern India.

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Nautanki

Tamasha is a traditional form of Marathi theatre, often with singing and dancing, widely performed by local or travelling theatre groups within the state of Maharashtra, India.

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Tamasha

Ramlila is any dramatic folk re-enactment of the life of Rama according to the ancient Hindu epic Ramayana or secondary literature based on it such as the Ramcharitmanas.

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Ramlila