Nautanki

• 12April2013 ( 2013-04-12) Country India Language Hindi Box office ₹223 million (US$2.8million) Nautanki Saala! ( transl. Dramatic scamp!) is a 2013 Indian The film was produced by Nautanki Saala! was released on 2 October 2012. Nautanki Saala!. . Nautanki Saala!. He wanted a longer campaign of eight weeks for promotion. Nautanki Saala! was attached with Plot [ ] The story is about the friendship and the bonding between RP and Mandar and how they face problems and solve them. Ram Parmar a.k.a. RP ( Returning to the present day, the psychiatrist suggests RP to apologise to all three, which may suffice in resolving the problems. Mandar returns to RP's play in the role of Hanuman and unites Nandini with RP. After doing so, he lives with Sita. Cast [ ] • • • • • Sanjeev Bhatt as Chandra • • Rufy Khan as Loki • • Purva Naresh as Ram's psychiatrist • Production [ ] Development [ ] In early 2012, Bhushan Kumar and Rohan Sippy announced their first collaboration of working together to give out a romantic comedy film. Abhishek Bachchan, always a lucky mascot in Rohan Sippy's movies, announced that he would not be a part of the movie as the lead role. Bachchan Jr revealed that he has a cameo in this film. The entire star cast of the movie is young and the leading female actors are also new. This will be Ayushmann's second movie after Vicky Donor. Prior to movies, he has been a VJ with a popular youth channel as well as an RJ in Chandigarh. Kunaal, on the other hand, was last seen i...

Sultana Daku Nautanki is one of the most popular folk performance forms of South Asia, particularly in northern India. Before the advent of Bollywood (the Hindi film industry), Nautanki was the biggest entertainment medium in the villages and towns of northern India. Nautanki's rich musical compositions and humorous, entertaining storylines hold a strong influence over rural people's imagination. Even after the spread of mass media (such as television, DVDs, and online streaming), a crowd of 10,000 to 15,000 can be seen at the top Nautanki performances. Nautanki's origins lie in the Saangit, Bhagat, and Swang musical theatre traditions of Northern India. One Saangit called Saangit Rani Nautanki Ka became so popular that the whole genre's name became Nautanki. Nautanki is most famous in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, and Bihar. Performances [ ] Nautanki performances are operas based on a popular folk theme derived from romantic tales, mythologies, or biographies of local heroes. The performance is often punctuated with individual songs, dances, and skits, which serve as breaks and comic relief for audiences. Amar Singh Rathore Nautanki performances can take place in any open space available in or around a village that can accommodate audiences in hundreds or thousands. Sometimes this space is made available by the village Chaupal (village community center). Other times, the playground of the local school becomes the performance site. A Nautanki stage is ...

Nautanki is an operatic theatre form combining music, dance, story, dialogue, humour, pathos, melodrama and wit in a magical whole. Nautanki, earlier known as svang, originated in the late nineteenth century in Uttar Pradesh (then United Provinces of Agra and Oudh) and steadily gained popularity. Performances were held in the open, on a provisional stage, and attended by entire villages—men, women, and children—who watched, spellbound, from late night to early morning. Nautankis were also performed in towns and cities, in bazaars, parks, residential colonies and at factory gates. Nautanki drew from various sources. Its forerunners include bhagat (a 400-year-old form of dramatised religious singing with a thin storyline); ballads that were sung by itinerant bards; and improvised skits performed by ordinary people during festive occasions. [1] Like Punjab’s nakal, Maharashtra’s tamasha, Rajasthani khayal, Tamil Nadu’s natakam, Bengal’s jatra and Madhya Pradesh’s maanch, nautanki exhibits a blend of local and Western dramatic conventions. All these genres may, therefore, be termed ‘intermediary’ or ‘hybrid-popular’ theatre forms. [2] Some of these forms are religious, while others, like nautanki, are secular. The first svangs were produced in Hathras, a town in UP, within an akhara (all-male space for the practice of music, poetry, drama, wrestling and bodybuilding) established by Indarman. Indarman, a poet from the Chhipi (artisans who print cloth) caste, began exhibiting sv...

Nautanki - An Art Form There was a princes in Punjab called Nautanki whose beauty was talked of far and wide. A young man, Phool Singh, knocking persistently at the door of her home, was taunted by his sister-in-law, “You haven’t wed the princess that you are in such a hurry.” Offended, Phool Singh took up the challenge and with the help of her gardener, he married Princess Nautanki and brought her home. This tale forms the content of a popular folk theatre of northern India – Nautanki, named after the princess. Some people are of the opinion that the Nautanki originated in Pubjab but there is no trace of the Punjabi language in this folk theatre, which is Hindustani. It is difficult to trace the history of a dynamic art form like Nautanki, which has developed according to the changing needs of the large masses of people who live in the villages of north India. There are references to the Bhagativyas (very similar to Nautanki) in Abul Fazl’s Ain-I-Akbari, the biography of Emperor Akbar in the 16 th century. But it is almost certain that the Nautanki has been entertaining the lower and middle classes for many hundred years spelling doom for the Sanskrit theatre. And that too without court patronage. The two main places where Nautanki took root and grew are Hathras and Kanpur. Two schools of this musical drama came to be established here. While the content of the dramas and the meter of the stanzas is more of less similar the musical quality and quantity of the Hathras schoo...

Deepti Priya Mehrotra Deepti Priya Mehrotra is an independent scholar. A social scientist with inter-disciplinary interests, she has taught at Delhi University, TISS-Mumbai, and elsewhere. Her books on Irom Sharmila, Gulab Bai, single mothers and freedom fighter Jaggi Devi are widely read. She is presently writing a book on street theatre as part of the Indian women’s movement. Nautanki is a popular performance genre combining story, music, dance and dialogue. It started as an all-male form of musical entertainment in Hathras during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, but the theatrical dimensions of nautanki developed in the Kanpur region, from the early twentieth century onwards. From the 1930s, women joined as actors, and nautanki held sway as the most popular form of entertainment in North India. Troupes travelled to perform in villages and towns with entire families watching all-night shows. Nautankis were often based on oral tradition, with kings, queens, lovers, bandits, saints, local heroes and heroines: Raja Harishchandra, Laila Majnu, Heer Ranjha, Puran Bhagat, Roop Basant, Indar Sabha, Amar Singh Rathore, and Sultana Daku were some of the immensely popular nautankis of the twentieth century . While nautanki theatre functioned as a medium of entertainment, it was also a platform for ethical, political and social education. A wide range of nautankis during the 1920s, 30s, and 40s promoted resistance against the British regime, such as Rashtriya Saangit Jul...

Until the 1930s, nautanki had no women actors; men took on all female roles. Once women joined, however, they quickly achieved popularity and stature as star attractions, often overshadowing the men. The rise of heroines in nautanki paralleled the rise of heroines in Bollywood: leading ladies were soon household names in India’s Hindi belt. Nautanki began to be labelled a ‘woman-dominated form’, and several successful nautanki heroines even launched their own production companies. Here, we trace the life and works of some well-known leading ladies of the Kanpur shaili (style) of nautanki. Gulab Bai In 1931, 12-year-old Gulabiya (as she was fondly called) accompanied her father to the Makanpur mela, where they saw Raja Harishchandra, performed by Tirmohan Lal and Company. Fascinated by the nautanki, she wished to join the company. When Tirmohan Ustad heard her sing, he agreed to take her in at a salary of a few annas per month. This is how Gulab Bai, known as the first female actor in nautanki, began her professional journey. [1] Gulab Bai systematically learnt nautanki singing and acting, and soon began playing leading roles in nautankis: Rani Taramati in Raja Harishchandra, Laila in Laila Majnu, Heer in Heer Ranjha. By the mid-1930s,Gulab Bai was famous and the company was doing well; she was said to be earning more than the district magistrate in the 1940s! She acted and sang dadras and rasiyas (folk and semi-classical genres) in between drama scenes; several of her song...