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Aanjjan Srivastav
Aanjjan Srivastav (born 2 June 1948) is an Indian film, television and stage actor, associated with Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) in Mumbai of which he remained Vice-President for several years.
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Abhimanyu
Abhimanyu was the youngest son of Arjuna and Subhadra.
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Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
The Academy of Fine Arts, in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) is one of the oldest fine arts societies in India.
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Achyut Lahkar
Achyut Lahkar (অচ্যুত লহকৰ; 9 July 1931 – 12 June 2016) was the father of the Bhryamyman or Mobile Theatre of Assam and gave birth to mobile theatre in Assam in the 1960s.
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Acting
Acting is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor or actress who adopts a character—in theatre, television, film, radio, or any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode.
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Alok Nath
Alok Nath (born 10 July 1956) is an Indian film character actor known for his works in Hindi cinema and television.
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Anant Nag
Anant Nagarkatte (born 4 September 1948), popularly known as Anant Nag, is an actor from Karnataka, India.
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Ankia Naat
Ankia Naats (অংকীয়া নাট) are a class of one act plays performed in Assam, India.
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Anupam Kher
Anupam Kher (born 7 March 1955) is an Indian actor and the current Chairman of Film and Television Institute of India.
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Anupama Chandrasekhar
Anupama Chandrasekhar is an Indian playwright born and based in Chennai.
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Arun Mukherjee
Arun Mukherjee or Arun Mukhopadhyay is a Bengali playwright and thespian.
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Arvind Gaur
Arvind Gaur (अरविन्द गौड़) is an Indian theatre director known for innovative, socially and politically relevant plays in India.
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Asghar Wajahat
Syed Asghar Wajahat, popularly known as Asghar Wajahat (असग़र वजाहत) (born 5 July 1946), is a Hindi scholar, fiction writer, novelist, playwright, an independent documentary filmmaker and a television scriptwriter, who is most known for his work, 'Saat Aasmaan' and his acclaimed play, 'Jis Lahore Nai Dekhya, O Jamyai Nai', based on the story of an old Punjabi Hindu woman who gets left behind in Lahore, after the Partition of India, and then refuses to leave.
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Ashish Vidyarthi
Ashish Vidyarthi (born 19 June 1962) is an Indian film actor who works in multiple language films, predominantly in Bollywood, Odia, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu and Bengali cinema.
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Asif Currimbhoy
Asif Currimbhoy (born 1928) is an Indian playwright writer in English.
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Assam
Assam is a state in Northeast India, situated south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.
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B. M. Shah
Brij Mohan Shah (1933–1998), better known as B. M. Shah, was an Indian theatre director and playwright.
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B. V. Karanth
Babukodi Venkataramana Karanth (19 September 1929 – 1 September 2002) was a noted film and theatre personality from India.
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Badal Sarkar
Badal Sircar (15 July 1925 – 13 May 2011), also known as Badal Sarkar, was an influential Indian dramatist and theatre director, most known for his anti-establishment plays during the Naxalite movement in the 1970s and taking theatre out of the proscenium and into public arena, when he founded his own theatre company, Shatabdi in 1976.
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Balwant Gargi
Balwant Gargi (4 December 1916 – 22 April 2003) was a Punjabi language dramatist, theatre director, novelist, and short story writer, and academic.
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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay or Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (27 June 1838–8 April 1894) was an Indian writer, poet and journalist.
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Bansi Kaul
Bansi Kaul(born 1949) is a Hindi theatre director and the founder of Rang Vidushak, a theatre group and Theatre institute in Bhopal.
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Belgachia
Belgachia is a neighbourhood of north Kolkata, earlier known as Calcutta, in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Bengal
Bengal (Bānglā/Bôngô /) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in Asia, which is located in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.
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Bengali language
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia.
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Bengali theatre
Bengali theatre primarily refers to theatre performed in the Bengali language.
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Bhakti
Bhakti (भक्ति) literally means "attachment, participation, fondness for, homage, faith, love, devotion, worship, purity".
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Bhaona
Bhaona (ভাওনা) is a traditional form of entertainment, always with religious messages, prevalent is Assam, India.
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Bharat Rang Mahotsav
Bharat Rang Mahotsav (भारत रंग महोत्सव) (BRM) or the National Theatre Festival, established in 1999, is the annual theatre festival of National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi, India's premier theatre training institute of Govt. of India.
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Bharata Muni
Bharata Muni was an ancient Indian theatrologist and musicologist who wrote the Natya Shastra, a theoretical treatise on ancient Indian dramaturgy and histrionics, especially Sanskrit theatre.
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Bharatendu Academy of Dramatic Arts
Bharatendu Academy of Dramatic Arts or Bharatendu Natya Akademi is a theatre training institute in Lucknow, India.
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Bhavabhuti
Bhavabhuti was an 8th-century scholar of India noted for his plays and poetry, written in Sanskrit.
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Bhavai
Bhavai, also known as Vesha or Swang, is a popular folk theatre form of western India, especially in Gujarat.
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Bhāsa
Bhāsa is one of the earliest and most celebrated Indian playwrights in Sanskrit.
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Bhisham Sahni
Bhisham Sahni (8 August 1915 – 11 July 2003) was a Hindi writer, playwright, and actor, most famous for his novel and television screenplay Tamas ("Darkness, Ignorance"), a powerful and passionate account of the Partition of India.
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Bhojpuri language
Bhojpuri is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Northern-Eastern part of India and the Terai region of Nepal.
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Bhopal
Bhopal is the capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of Bhopal district and Bhopal division.
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Bijon Bhattacharya
Bijon Bhattacharya (বিজন ভট্টাচার্য) (17 July 1915 – 19 January 1978) was a prominent Indian theatre and film personality from Bengal.
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Bimbisara
Bimbisara (c. 558 – c. 491 BC or during the late 5th century BC) also known as Seniya or Shrenika in the Jain histories was a King of Magadha (V. K. Agnihotri (ed.), Indian History. Allied Publishers, New Delhi 262010, f. or c. 400 BC) and belonged to the Haryanka dynasty.
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Bollywood
Hindi cinema, often metonymously referred to as Bollywood, is the Indian Hindi-language film industry, based in the city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Maharashtra, India.
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Bratya Basu
Bratya Basu (born 25 September 1969)Bratya Basu, (collected plays), Ananda Publishers, 2004 is a Bengali professor, dramatist, director, actor and a politician.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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British Raj
The British Raj (from rāj, literally, "rule" in Hindustani) was the rule by the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947.
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Buddhism
Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.
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Carnatic music
Carnatic music, Karnāṭaka saṃgīta or Karnāṭaka saṅgītam is a system of music commonly associated with southern India, including the modern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, as well as Sri Lanka.
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Chandradasan
Chandradasan (born December 1958) is a theatre director, actor and writer from Kerala, India.
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Chandrashekhara Kambara
Chandrashekhara Kambara (born 2 January 1937) is a prominent Indian poet, playwright, folklorist, film director in Kannada language and the founder-vice-chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi also, country’s premier literary institution, after Vinayak Krishna Gokak (1983) and U.R. Ananthamurthy (1993).
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Chilsag Chillies Theatre Company
Chilsag Chillies is an Indian Theatre company and the flagship LiveShow,Stageplay and musical production arm of the Chisag Entertainment Network.The company has operations in US, UK, Canada and India and has a network of talented artists all over the world.
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Cinema of India
The Cinema of India consists of films produced in the nation of India.
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Common Era
Common Era or Current Era (CE) is one of the notation systems for the world's most widely used calendar era – an alternative to the Dionysian AD and BC system.
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Costume design
Costume design is the investing of clothing and the overall appearance of a character or performer.
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Dance
Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement.
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Datta Bhagat
Datta Bhagat (born 13 June 1945 in Waghi village of Nanded district Maharashtra) is a noted Marathi playwright and one of the leaders of the Dalit theater movement in Marathi.
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Deepak Dobriyal
Deepak Dobriyal is Garhwali brahmin who is an Indian film and theatre actor.
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Deepan Sivaraman
Deepan Sivaraman is an Indian Theatre director, Scenographer and Academic.
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Dharamvir Bharati
Dharamvir Bharati (25 December 1926 – 4 September 1997) was a renowned Hindi poet, author, playwright and a social thinker of India.
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Dialogue
Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange.
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Dinabandhu Mitra
Dinabandhu Mitra (দীনবন্ধু মিত্র) (1829–1873) the Bengali dramatist, was born in 1829 at village Chouberia in Gopalnagar P.S., North 24 Parganas and was the son of Kalachand Mitra.
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Dramanon
Dramanon (short for Dramatist Anonymous) is an English language theatre group that operates out of three cities in India: Manipal, Bangalore and Hyderabad.
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Dramatic Performances Act
The Dramatic Performances Act was implemented by the British Government in India in the year 1876 to police seditious Indian theatre.
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Dramaturgy
The word Dramaturgy, is from the greek δραματουργέιν 'to write a drama'.
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Drik Picture Library
Drik Picture Library Ltd. is a picture library based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Ebrahim Alkazi
Ebrahim Alkazi (born 18 October 1925) is an Indian theatre director and drama teacher.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Entertainment
Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience, or gives pleasure and delight.
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Fad
A fad, trend or craze is any form of collective behavior that develops within a culture, a generation or social group in which a group of people enthusiastically follows an impulse for a finite period.
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Film
A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.
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Finance
Finance is a field that is concerned with the allocation (investment) of assets and liabilities (known as elements of the balance statement) over space and time, often under conditions of risk or uncertainty.
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Folk art
Folk art encompasses art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other laboring tradespeople.
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Forum theatre
Forum Theatre is a type of theatre created by the innovative and influential practitioner Augusto Boal, one of the techniques under the umbrella term of Theatre of the Oppressed (TO).
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Gautama Buddha
Gautama Buddha (c. 563/480 – c. 483/400 BCE), also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was an ascetic (śramaṇa) and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.
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German language
German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.
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Girish Chandra Ghosh
Girish Chandra Ghosh (28 February 1844 – 8 February 1912) was a Bengali musician, poet,hair designer, playwright, novelist, theatre director and actor.
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Girish Karnad
Girish Raghunath Karnad (born 19 May 1938) is an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer playwright and a Rhodes Scholar, who predominantly works in South Indian cinema and Bollywood.
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Girish Mancha
Girish Mancha is a theatre auditorium located in Bagbazar, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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Goethe's Faust
Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two.
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Gopal Sharman
Gopal Sharman (19 August 1935 - 16 June 2016) was the author of 14 plays, three books, writer-director of scores of television programmes, many articles and columns, and is best known for his dramatic version of the great epic, The Ramayana, written in English for the Royal Shakespeare Company of Great Britain, which subsequently has been presented on stage more than 2000 times to the highest acclaim in India and the theatre capitals of the West.
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Govind Purushottam Deshpande
Govind Purushottam Deshpande (Devanagari: गोविंद पुरुषोत्तम देशपांडे; 1938 – 16 October 2013) was a Marathi playwright and academic from Maharashtra, India.
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Grammar
In linguistics, grammar (from Greek: γραμματική) is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language.
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Gujarat
Gujarat is a state in Western India and Northwest India with an area of, a coastline of – most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula – and a population in excess of 60 million.
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Gurazada Apparao
Gurazada Venkata Apparao (21 September 1862 – 30 November 1915) was a noted Indian playwright, dramatist, poet, and writer known for his works in Telugu theatre.
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Gurcharan Das
Gurcharan Das (born 3 October 1943) is an Indian author, commentator and public intellectual.
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Gursharan Singh
Gursharan Singh (born 8 March 1963, Amritsar, Punjab) is a former Indian cricketer who played in one Test and one ODI in 1990.Gursharan is now a Senior Manager with Steel Authority of India, Delhi.
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Habib Tanvir
Habib Tanvir (1 September 1923 – 8 June 2009) was one of the most popular Indian Urdu, Hindi playwrights, a theatre director, poet and actor.
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Harcharan Singh (writer)
Use punjabi language Harcharan Singh (1914–2006) was a Punjabi dramatist and writer.
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Harsha
Harsha (c. 590–647 CE), also known as Harshavardhana, was an Indian emperor who ruled North India from 606 to 647 CE.
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Haryana
Haryana, carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1November 1966 on linguistic basis, is one of the 29 states in India.
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Hindi theatre
Hindi theatre primarily refers to theatre performed in the Hindi language, including dialects such as Khari boli and Hindustani.
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Hindu mythology
Hindu mythology are mythical narratives found in Hindu texts such as the Vedic literature, epics like Mahabharata and Ramayana, the Puranas, the regional literatures Sangam literature and Periya Puranam.
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History of India
The history of India includes the prehistoric settlements and societies in the Indian subcontinent; the advancement of civilisation from the Indus Valley Civilisation to the eventual blending of the Indo-Aryan culture to form the Vedic Civilisation; the rise of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism;Sanderson, Alexis (2009), "The Śaiva Age: The Rise and Dominance of Śaivism during the Early Medieval Period." In: Genesis and Development of Tantrism, edited by Shingo Einoo, Tokyo: Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo, 2009.
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Hrishikesh Sulabh
Hrishikesh Sulabh (born 15 February 1955) is a Hindi writer, best known for short stories and writing plays in Bideshiya Shaili.
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Improvisation
Improvisation is creating or performing something spontaneously or making something from whatever is available.
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Imtiaz Ali Taj
Syed Imtiaz Ali Taj (سیّد امتیاز علی تاؔج; 1900–1970) was a dramatist who wrote in the Urdu language.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Indian classical drama
The term Indian classical drama refers to the tradition of dramatic literature and performance in ancient India.
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Indian Council for Cultural Relations
The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), is an autonomous organisation of the Government of India, involved in India’s external cultural relations, through cultural exchange with other countries and their peoples.
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Indian People's Theatre Association
Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) was an association of leftist theatre-artists under the Left parties.
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Indigo revolt
The Indigo revolt (or Nil vidroha) was a peasant movement and subsequent uprising of indigo farmers against the indigo planters that arose in Bengal in 1859.
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Jaishankar Bhojak
Jaishankar Bhudhardas Bhojak, (30 January 1889 – 22 January 1975) better known by his theatre name Jaishankar 'Sundari', was an Indian actor and director of Gujarati theatre.
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Jaishankar Prasad
Jaishankar Prasad (30 January 1890 15 November 1937) was a famed figure in modern Hindi literature as well as Hindi theatre.
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Jalabala Vaidya
Jalabala Vaidya (born August 12, 1936) is one of India's leading stage actresses.
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Jana Natya Manch
Jana Natya Manch (People's Theatre Front; Janam for short) is a New Delhi-based amateur theatre company specialising in left-wing street theatre in Hindi.
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Jatra (theatre)
Jatra (যাত্রা, origin: Yatra meaning procession or journey in Sanskrit) is a popular folk-theatre form of Bengali theatre, spread throughout most of Bengali speaking areas of the Indian subcontinent, including Bangladesh and Indian states of West Bengal, Bihar, Assam, Orissa and Tripura As of 2005, there were some 55 troupes based in Calcutta's old jatra district, Chitpur Road, and all together, jatra is a $21m-a-year industry, performed on nearly 4,000 stages in West Bengal alone, where in 2001, over 300 companies employed over 20,000 people, more than the local film industry and urban theatre.
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Javed Siddiqui
Javed Siddiqi (جاوید صدیقی जावेद सिद्दीकी) (13 January 1942) is a Hindi and Urdu screenwriter, dialogue writer and playwright from India.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman.
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K. V. Akshara
K.V. Akshara is a director,playwright and writer in the Kannada language.
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K. V. Subbanna
Kuntagodu Vibhuthi Subbanna (20 February 1932 – 16 July 2005) was an acclaimed dramatist and writer in Kannada.
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Kader Khan
Kader Khan (born 11 December 1937) is an Afghan-born Indian-Canadian film actor, screenwriter, comedian, and director.
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Kalidas Samman
The Kalidas Samman (कालिदास सम्मान) is a prestigious arts award presented annually by the government of Madhya Pradesh in India.
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Kalidasa Kalakendram
Kalidasa Kalakendram is a professional drama theateric group founded by O. Madhavan, a well-known Malayalam theatre director, in Kollam, Kerala.
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Kalyanam Raghuramaiah
Kalyanam Raghuramaiah (1901–1975), popularly known as Eelapata Raghuramaiah, was an Indian film actor, and thespian known for his works in Telugu cinema, and Telugu theatre.
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Kangana Ranaut
Kangana Ranaut (born 23 March 1987) is an Indian film actress.
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Karmaveer Puraskaar
The Karmaveer Puraskaar are National People's Awards for Citizen Social Justice and action instituted by the citizens and people of India.
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Kathakali
Kathakali (കഥകളി) is one of the major forms of classical Indian dance.
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Kavalam Narayana Panicker
Kavalam Narayana Panicker (28 April 1928 – 26 June 2016) was an Indian dramatist, theatre director, and poet.
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Kālidāsa
Kālidāsa was a Classical Sanskrit writer, widely regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language of India.
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Kerala
Kerala is a state in South India on the Malabar Coast.
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Kerala People's Arts Club
Kerala People's Arts Club (KPAC) is a theatrical movement in Kayamkulam, Kerala, India.
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Kolkata
Kolkata (also known as Calcutta, the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Koodiyattam
Koodiyattam (കൂടിയാട്ടം), also transliterated as Kutiyattam, is a traditional performing artform in the state of Kerala, India.
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Krishna
Krishna (Kṛṣṇa) is a major deity in Hinduism.
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Krishnanattam
Krishnaattam (Malayalam: കൃഷ്ണാട്ടം, IAST: Kṛṣṇaāṭṭaṃ) is a temple art in Kerala, India.
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Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Kulbhushan Kharbanda (born 21 October 1944) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi and Punjabi films.
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Kumara Varma
Kumara Varma (born April 1945) is an Indian theatre director.
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Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh (MP;; meaning Central Province) is a state in central India.
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Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.
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Mahābhāṣya
The (महाभाष्य,, great commentary), attributed to Patañjali, is a commentary on selected rules of Sanskrit grammar from 's treatise, the ''Ashtadhyayi'', as well as Kātyāyana's Varttika, an elaboration of Pāṇini's grammar.
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Mahesh Dattani
Mahesh Dattani (born 7 August 1958) is an Indian director, actor, playwright and writer.
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Mahesh Elkunchwar
Mahesh Elkunchwar (Born 9 October 1939) is an Indian playwright, screenplay writer with more than 20 plays to his name, in addition to his theoretical writings, critical works, and his active work in India's Parallel Cinema as actor and screenwriter.
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Malwa
Malwa is a historical region of west-central India occupying a plateau of volcanic origin.
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Manch Theatre
Manch Theatre is an Indian theatre group based in Hyderabad.
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Mandapa
Mandapa (also spelled mantapa or mandapam) in Indian architecture is a pillared outdoor hall or pavilion for public rituals.
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Manipuri dance
Manipuri dance, also known as Jagoi, is one of the major Indian classical dance forms, named after the region of its origin – Manipur, a state in northeastern India bordering with Myanmar (Burma), Assam, Nagaland and Mizoram.
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Manish Joshi Bismil
Manish Joshi Bismil is an Indian theatre actor, director, puppeteer and magician.
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Manjula Padmanabhan
Manjula Padmanabhan (born 1953) is a playwright, journalist, comic strip artist, and children's book author.
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Manoj Bajpayee
Manoj Bajpayee (born 23 April 1969), also credited as Manoj Bajpai, is an Indian film actor who predominantly works in Hindi cinema and has also done Telugu and Tamil language films.
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Marathi theatre
Marathi theatre is theatre in the Marathi language, mostly originating or based in the state Maharashtra in India, and elsewhere with Marathi diaspora.
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Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity
The Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity was made by the Director-General of UNESCO starting in 2001 to raise awareness of intangible cultural heritage and encourage local communities to protect them and the local people who sustain these forms of cultural expressions.
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Mālavikāgnimitram
The Mālavikāgnimitram (Sanskrit, meaning Mālavikā and Agnimitra) is a Sanskrit play by Kālidāsa.
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Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Michael Madhusudan Dutt, or Michael Madhusudan Dutta (মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত; 25 January 1824 – 29 June 1873) was a popular 19th-century Bengali poet and dramatist.
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Mohan Maharishi
Mohan Maharishi (मोहन महर्षि) is an Indian theatre director, actor and a playwright.
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Mohan Rakesh
Mohan Rakesh (मोहन राकेश; 8 January 19253 January 1972) was one of the pioneers of the Nai Kahani ("New Story") literary movement of the Hindi literature in the 1950s.
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Mrityunjay Prabhakar
Mrityunjay Prabhakar (born 14 September 1979) is an Indian theatre director, dramatist, theatre critic, teacher of theatre and poet.
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Mumbai
Mumbai (also known as Bombay, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
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Music
Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.
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Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent
Muslim conquests on the Indian subcontinent mainly took place from the 12th to the 16th centuries, though earlier Muslim conquests made limited inroads into modern Afghanistan and Pakistan as early as the time of the Rajput kingdoms in the 8th century.
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Nadira Babbar
Nadira Babbar (نادرہ ببّر, नादिरा बब्बर; born 20 January 1948) is an Indian theatre actress, director and an actress in Hindi cinema, who is the recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2001.
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Nagananda
Nagananda (Joy of the Serpents) is a Sanskrit play attributed to king Harsha (ruled 606 C.E. - 648 C.E.). Nagananda is among the most acclaimed Sanskrit dramas.
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Nandikar
Nandikar (নান্দীকার) is a theatre group in India.
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Nandikar's National Theatre Festival
Nandikar's National Theatre Festival was started in 1984.
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Naren Weiss
Naren Weiss is an actor, playwright, and former model.
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Narendra Mohan
Narendra Mohan was an Indian industrialist, chairman and managing director of the Jagran Prakashan publisher for India's largest selling Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagran.
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Naseeruddin Shah
Naseeruddin Shah (born 20 July 1950) is an Indian film and stage actor and director, and a prominent figure in Indian parallel cinema.
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Nation
A nation is a stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
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National School of Drama
National School of Drama or NSD) is a theatre training institute situated at New Delhi, India. It is an autonomous organization under Ministry of Culture, Government of India. It was set up in 1959 by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, and became an independent school in 1975. In 2005 it was granted deemed university status, but in 2011 it was revoked on the institute's request.
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Natya Shastra
The Nāṭya Śāstra (Sanskrit: नाट्य शास्त्र, Nāṭyaśāstra) is a Sanskrit Hindu text on the performing arts.
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Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry
Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry (born 14 April 1951) is a Chandigarh-based theatre artist.
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Neena Gupta
Neena Gupta (born 4 July 1954) is a popular actress in Indian commercial cinema, but it is her work with art filmmakers of India like G. Aravindan and Shyam Benegal that got her recognition as an actress of considerable repute.
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New Delhi
New Delhi is an urban district of Delhi which serves as the capital of India and seat of all three branches of Government of India.
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Nil Darpan
Nil Darpan (Bengali: নীল দর্পন।, The Indigo mirror) is a Bengali play written by Dinabandhu Mitra in 1858–1859.
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Ninasam
Ninasam (Kannada: ನೀನಾಸಂ) is a cultural organisation located in the village of Heggodu in Sagar Taluk of the Shivamogga district in the state of Karnataka, India.
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Om Shivpuri
Om Shivpuri (1938 – 15 October 1990) was an Indian theatre actor-director and character actor in Hindi films.
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Padma Shri
Padma Shri (also Padma Shree) is the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan.
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Pali
Pali, or Magadhan, is a Middle Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian subcontinent.
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Pankaj Kapur
Pankaj Kapur (born 29 May 1954) is an Indian theatre, television and film actor.
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Paresh Rawal
Paresh Rawal (born 30 May 1955) is an Indian film actor, thespian and politician known for his works notably in Bollywood.
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Partap Sharma
Partap Sharma (12 December 1939 – 30 November 2011) was an Indian playwright, novelist, author of books for children, commentator, actor and documentary film-maker from United Kingdom.
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Partition of India
The Partition of India was the division of British India in 1947 which accompanied the creation of two independent dominions, India and Pakistan.
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Patanjali
(पतञ्जलि) is a proper Indian name.
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Piyush Mishra
Piyush Mishra (born 13 January 1963) is an Indian film and theatre actor, music director, lyricist, singer and scriptwriter.
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Platform for Action in Creative Theater
Platform for Action in Creative Theater - PACT as it is commonly known as in Indian theatrical circle has been involved in Theatrics, Arts and Cultural Management and also been working as a facilitating platform for new budding Theater Actors and Directors.
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Playback Theatre
Playback Theatre is an original form of improvisational theatre in which audience or group members tell stories from their lives and watch them enacted on the spot.
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Prakrit
The Prakrits (प्राकृत; pāuda; pāua) are any of several Middle Indo-Aryan languages formerly spoken in India.
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Prasanna
Prasanna (born 10 February 1951), is a major Indian theatre director and playwright from Karnataka.
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Prithvi Theatre
Prithvi Theatre is one of Mumbai's best known theatres.
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Prithviraj Kapoor
Prithviraj Kapoor (3 November 1906– 29 May 1972) born Prithvinath Kapoor, was a pioneer of Indian theatre and of the Hindi film industry, who started his career as an actor in the silent era of Hindi cinema, associated with IPTA as one of its founding members and who founded the Prithvi Theatres, a travelling theatre company based in Mumbai, in 1944.
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Priyadarsika
Priyadarsika is a Sanskrit play attributed to king Harsha (606 - 648).
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Puppetry
Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer.
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Rabindra Sadan
Rabindra Sadan is a cultural centre and theatre in Kolkata, located near the Nandan cinema and cultural complex and the Academy of Fine Arts on AJC Bose Road in South Kolkata.
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore FRAS, also written Ravīndranātha Ṭhākura (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Raga
A raga or raaga (IAST: rāga; also raag or ragam; literally "coloring, tingeing, dyeing") is a melodic framework for improvisation akin to a melodic mode in Indian classical music.
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Raj Babbar
Raj Babbar (born 23 June 1952) is a Hindi and Punjabi film actor and politician belonging to Indian National Congress.
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Raj Bisaria
Raj Bisaria (born November 10, 1935) is an Indian director, producer, actor and educationalist, described by the Press Trust of India as "the father of the modern theatre in North India".
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Raj Kapoor
Ranbir Raj Kapoor (14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988), also known as "the greatest showman of Hindi cinema", was a noted Indian film actor, producer and director of Indian cinema.
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Rajendra Gupta
Rajendra Gupta is an Indian film, television and theatre actor and director who is best known for his television roles of Pandit Jagannath in the 1990s Doordarshan fantasy television series Chandrakanta and Sudha's father – Jagat Narayan – in the 1998–2001 Sony TV drama Saaya.
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Rajesh Joshi
Rajesh Joshi (राजेश जोशी) (born 1946) is a Hindi writer, poet, journalist and a playwright, who was the recipient of 2002 Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi for his anthology of poems - 'Do Panktiyon Ke Beech' (Between Two Lines), given by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.
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Rajesh Talwar
Rajesh Talwar is a lawyer and writer from India.
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Rajkumar (actor)
Singanalluru Puttaswamayya Muthuraju (24 April 1929 – 12 April 2006), known mononymously by his stage name Rajkumar, was an Indian actor and singer in the Kannada cinema.
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Rajpal Yadav
Rajpal Yadav (born 16 March 1971) is an Indian film actor known for his comic roles in Bollywood.
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Ram Gopal Bajaj
Ram Gopal Bajaj is an Indian theatre director, academician, and a Hindi film actor.
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Ramanattam
Ramanattam (Malayalam: രാമനാട്ടം, IAST: Rāmanāṭṭaṃ) is a temple art in Kerala, India.
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Ramayana
Ramayana (रामायणम्) is an ancient Indian epic poem which narrates the struggle of the divine prince Rama to rescue his wife Sita from the demon king Ravana.
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Rambriksh Benipuri
Ramavriksha Benipuri, (1899–1968) was a freedom fighter, Socialist Leader, editor and Hindi writer.
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Ramesh Mehta
Rameshwar Nath "Ramesh" Mehta, (born 7 August 1923) is an Indian playwright, director, actor and translator.
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Ranga Shankara
Ranga Shankara is one of Bangalore's well known theatres.
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Rangayana
Rangayana (ರಂಗಾಯಣ) is a theatre institute which operates from Mysore, Karnataka, India.
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Rasa lila
The Rass lila (IAST) (रास लीला) or Rass dance is part of the traditional story of Krishna described in Hindu scriptures such as the Bhagavata Purana and literature such as the Gita Govinda, where he dances with Radha and her sakhis.
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Ratan Thiyam
Ratan Thiyam (born 20 January 1948) is an Indian playwright and theatre director, and the winner of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1987, one of leading figures of the "theatre of roots" movement in Indian theatre, which started in the 1970s.
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Rathna Shekar Reddy
Rathna Shekar Reddy is an award-winning Indian film actor from Hyderabad, Telangana.
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Ratna Pathak
Ratna Pathak is an Indian actress and director best known for her work in theatre, television and Bollywood films.
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Ratnavali
Ratnavali is a Sanskrit drama about a beautiful princess named Ratnavali, and a great king named Udayana.
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Ritual
A ritual "is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, and objects, performed in a sequestered place, and performed according to set sequence".
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Rohini Hattangadi
Rohini Hattangadi (रोहिणी हट्टंगडी) (born 11 April 1951) is an Indian actress.
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Roman theatre (structure)
Roman theatres derive from and are part of the overall evolution of earlier Greek theatres.
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Rudraprasad Sengupta
Rudraprasad Sengupta (born 31 January 1935) is a Bengali Indian actor, director and cultural critic.
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Saang
Saang (सांग), also known as Swang (meaning "initiation") or Svang (स्वांग), is a popular folk dance–theatre form in Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh.
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Sachin Gupta
Sachin Gupta (born 9 March 1978) is an Indian film Producer,Writer and Director.He produces films under Chilsag Motion Pictures & also an Artistic Director of Chilsag Chillies Theatre Company.He made his writing and directorial debut with the critically acclaimed film Paranthe Wali Gali (2014), produced by Chilsag Motion Pictures, a production company he established in 2012.Sachin's sojourn into theatre started when he was 12 years old, and to date he has staged more than Hundred shows around the world working as an Actor, Director and Playwright including his award-winning Off Broadway play 'Celebration of life', 'Handicapped City' & 'Kailashnath weds Madhumati' which he staged Off-Broadway, New York and in Toronto, Canada for which he got huge appreciation amongst theatre lovers in North America.
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Safdar Hashmi
Safdar Hashmi (12 April 1954 – 2 January 1989) was a communist playwright and director, best known for his work with street theatre in India.
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Samahaara
Samahaara is an Indian theatre group based in Hyderabad.
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Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Sangeet Natak Akademi Puraskar (Akademi Award) (IPA:Saṅgīta Nāṭaka Akādamī Puraskāra) is an award given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama.
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Sankar Venkateswaran
Sankar Venkateswaran (born 1979) is an Indian theatre director, producer, dramaturge and actor.
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Sankardev
Srimanta Sankardev (1449–1568) (translit) was a 15th–16th century Assamese polymath: a saint-scholar, poet, playwright, social-religious reformer and a figure of importance in the cultural and religious history of Assam, India.
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Sanskrit
Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.
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Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena
Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena (15 September 1927 – 24 September 1983) was a Hindi writer, poet, columnist and playwright.
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Satish Alekar
Satish Vasant Alekar (born 30 January 1949) is a Marathi playwright, actor, and theatre director.
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Satish Kaushik
Satish Kaushik (सतीश कौशिक) (born 13 April 1956) is an Indian film director, producer, and actor, primarily in Hindi films and theatre.
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Satyadev Dubey
Satyadev Dubey (13 July 1936 – 25 December 2011) was an Indian theatre director, actor, playwright, screenwriter, and film actor and director.
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Saurabh Srivastava
Saurabh Srivastava is an Indian entrepreneur, investment professional, institution builder and a former chairman of NASSCOM, a non-profit trade organization for the promotion of Indian IT industry.
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Seema Biswas
Seema Biswas (born 14 January 1965) is an Indian film and theatre actress from Assam who shot into prominence with the role of Phoolan Devi in Shekhar Kapur's film Bandit Queen (1994).
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Shabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi (born 18 September 1950) is an Indian actress of film, television and theatre.
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Shafi Inamdar
Shafi Inamdar (Marathi: शफी इनामदार; 23 October 1945 – 13 March 1996) was an Indian actor.
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Shah Rukh Khan
Shah Rukh Khan (born Shahrukh Khan; 2 November 1965), also known as SRK, is an Indian film actor, producer and television personality.
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Shahid Kapoor
Shahid Kapoor (born 25 February 1981), also known as Shahid Khattar, is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi films.
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Shakuntala (play)
Shakuntala, also known as The Recognition of Shakuntala, The Sign of Shakuntala, and many other variants (Devanagari: अभिज्ञानशाकुन्तलम् – Abhijñānashākuntala), is a Sanskrit play by the ancient Indian poet Kālidāsa, dramatizing the story of Shakuntala told in the epic Mahabharata.
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Shammi Kapoor
Shammi Kapoor (born Shamsher Raj Kapoor; 21 October 1931 – 14 August 2011) was an Indian film actor and director.
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Shankar Nag
Shankar Nagarakatte (9 November 1954 – 30 September 1990) was an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, and producer known for his work in Kannada cinema and television.
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Shaoli Mitra
Shaoli Mitra (alternative spelling Shaonli Mitra) is a Bengali theatre and film actress.
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Sharad Joshi
Sharad Joshi was a Hindi poet, writer, satirist and a dialogue and scriptwriter in Hindi films and television.
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Shashi Kapoor
Shashi Kapoor (born as Balbir Prithviraj Kapoor; 18 March 1938 – 4 December 2017) was an Indian film actor and producer.
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Shilpa Shukla
Shilpa Shukla is an Indian theatre, television and Bollywood film actor from Hajipur, Bihar.
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Shreekumar Varma
Shreekumar Varma is an Indian author, playwright, newspaper columnist and poet, known for the novels Lament of Mohini (Penguin, 2000), Maria's Room (Harper Collins, 2010), Devil's Garden: Tales Of Pappudom (Puffin, 2006), The Magic Store of Nu-Cham-Vu (Puffin, 2009) and the historical book for children, Pazhassi Raja: The Royal Rebel (Macmillan, 1997).
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Sohrab Modi
Sohrab Modi (1897–1984) was an Indian Parsi stage and film actor, director and producer.
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Sombhu Mitra
Sombhu Mitra (22 August 1915 – 19 May 1997) was an Indian film and stage actor, director, playwright, reciter and an Indian theatre personality, known especially for his involvement in Bengali theatre, where he is considered a pioneer.
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Sreejith Ramanan
Sreejith Ramanan is an Indian contemporary theatre director, actor, theatre maker, researcher and theatre-trainer who has been described by the media as "".
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Star Theatre, Kolkata
The Star Theatre is a theatre in Kolkata, built in 1883.
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Stock character
A stock character is a stereotypical fictional character in a work of art such as a novel, play, or film, whom audiences recognize from frequent recurrences in a particular literary tradition.
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Sudha Shivpuri
Sudha Shivpuri (14 July 1937 – 20 May 2015) was an Indian actress who was most famous for her role as Baa in the Hindi TV serial Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi (2000–2008).
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Surabhi (theatre group)
Surabhi (also known as Sri Venkateswara Natya Mandali) is a family theatre group based in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
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Surendra Verma
Surendra Verma (born 7 September 1941) is a leading Hindi litterateur and playwright.
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Suresh Bhardwaj
Suresh Bhardwaj (born 6 June 1955) is an Indian theatre, film and television director as well as a lighting and scenic designer.
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Sutta Pitaka
The Sutta Pitaka (or Suttanta Pitaka; Basket of Discourse; cf Sanskrit सूत्र पिटक) is the second of the three divisions of the Tripitaka or Pali Canon, the Pali collection of Buddhist writings of Theravada Buddhism.
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Swadesh Deepak
Swadesh Deepak (born 1943) is an Indian playwright, novelist and short-story writer.
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Swanand Kirkire
Swanand Kirkire (Marathi: स्वानंद किरकिरे) (born 1970) is an Indian lyricist, playback singer, writer, assistant director, actor and dialogue writer, both in television and Hindi films.
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T. P. Kailasam
Thanjavur Paramasiva Kailasam (1884–1946), was a playwright and prominent writer of Kannada literature.
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Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.
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Telugu drama
Telugu Rangasthalam is an Indian theatre in the Telugu language, based in the states of Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana.
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The Madras Players
The Madras Players are the oldest English-language theatre group in Chennai, India.
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The Post Office (play)
The Post Office (Bengali: Dak Ghar) is a 1912 play by Rabindranath Tagore.
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Theatre Arts Workshop
The Theatre Arts Workshop (TAW) is a non-profit making, registered cultural organization established in 1966, in Lucknow.
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Theatre Formation Paribartak
Theatre Formation Paribartak is a group theatre situated in the Howrah district of West Bengal, India.
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Theatre of ancient Greece
The ancient Greek drama was a theatrical culture that flourished in ancient Greece from c. 700 BC.
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Theatre of India
The earliest form of classical theatre of India was the Sanskrit theatre which came into existence only after the development of Greek and Roman theatres in the west.
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Theatre of the Oppressed
The Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) describes theatrical forms that the Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal first elaborated in the 1970s, initially in Brazil and later in Europe.
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Theatre Pasta
Theatre Pasta is an Indian Theatre magazine launched in 2005 and published by Chilsag Chillies Theatre Company, with playwright and director, Sachin Gupta as its editor.
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Theatrical makeup
Theatrical makeup is makeup that is used to assist in creating the appearance of the characters that actors portray during a theater production.
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Theatrical property
A prop, formally known as (theatrical) property, is an object used on stage or on screen by actors during a performance or screen production.
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Torit Mitra
Torit Mitra (September 4, 1956) is a noted Indian Bengali playwright and theatre director.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.
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Utpal Datta
Utpal Datta is a National Film Award-winning film critic.
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Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh (IAST: Uttar Pradeś) is a state in northern India.
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Vedas
The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas (Sanskrit: वेद, "knowledge") are a large body of knowledge texts originating in the ancient Indian subcontinent.
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Vedic and Sanskrit literature
Vedic and Sanskrit literature comprises the spoken or sung literature of the Vedas from the early-to-mid 2nd to mid 1st millennium BCE, and continues with the oral tradition of the Sanskrit epics of Iron Age India; the golden age of Classical Sanskrit literature dates to Late Antiquity (roughly the 3rd to 8th centuries CE).
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Vedic period
The Vedic period, or Vedic age, is the period in the history of the northwestern Indian subcontinent between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation in the central Gangetic Plain which began in BCE.
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Vijay Tendulkar
Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar (6 January 1928 – 19 May 2008) was a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator primarily in Marāthi.
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Vikramōrvaśīyam
Vikramōrvaśīyam (meaning Urvashi Won by Valour) is a five-act Sanskrit play by ancient Indian poet Kalidasa who flourished in the 4th Century CE, on the Vedic love story of king Pururavas and an Apsara, a celestial nymph named Urvashi.
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WeMove Theatre
WeMove Theatre is Bangalore-based theatre company.
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Whistle
A whistle is an instrument which produces sound from a stream of gas, most commonly air.
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Yakshagana
Yakshagana (Kannada: "ಯಕ್ಷಗಾನ", Tulu: "ಆಟ") is a traditional theatre form that combines dance, music, dialogue, costume, make-up, and stage techniques with a unique style and form.
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Yours Truly Theatre, Bangalore
Yours Truly Theatre is an improvisational and interactive theatre group established in 2003 and based in Bangalore, India.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_India
