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Theatre of India

Index 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. [1]

82 relations: Abhinavagupta, Amrish Puri, Anand Abhyankar, Andhra Pradesh, Anjali Parvati Koda, Arundathi Nag, B. M. Shah, Badal Sarkar, Bhargavi Narayan, Bhavai, Bhāsa, Bollywood, Chandrashekhara Kambara, Chaya (literature), Chinawal, Cinema of India, Classical Indian musical theatre, Desire Under the Elms, Drama, Durga Khote, Gujarati theatre, Habib Tanvir, Hāsya, Hema Bellur, Hindi theatre, History of film, History of theatre, Hooker with a heart of gold, Hrishikesh Sulabh, I Am Missing You, India, Indian classical drama, Indo-American Arts Council, Jana Natya Manch, Jim Sarbh, Karuna Banerjee, Kashmir, Kehta Hai Dil Jee Le Zara, Lakshmi Chandrashekar, Lokesh Vijay Gupte, Madhya Pradesh School of Drama, Manch Theatre, Manjit Tiwana, Manohar Singh, Marathi theatre, Masala film, Master Hirannaiah, Mohan Joshi, Mohan Upreti, Mrityunjay Prabhakar, ..., N. K. Sharma, Nadira Babbar, National School of Drama, Natyoshala, Om Shivpuri, Outline of India, Outline of theatre, Pabitra Kumar Deka, Parallel cinema, Pather Panchali, Prithviraj Kapoor, Purple Pebble Pictures, Ram Gopal Bajaj, Ratan Thiyam, Rathna Shekar Reddy, Samahaara, Sanjana Kapoor, Santanu Bose, Shreekumar Varma, Street theatre, Sudha Belawadi, Teesri Kasam, Telugu drama, The Apu Trilogy, Theatre, Theatre of India, Uppalapati Narayana Rao, Usha Parinayam, Vijaya Mehta, Waman Kendre, 11th century, 1901. Expand index (32 more) »

Abhinavagupta

Abhinavagupta (c. 950 – 1016 AD) was a philosopher, mystic and aesthetician from Kashmir.

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Amrish Puri

Amrishlal Puri (22 June 1932 – 12 January 2005) was an Indian actor, who was an important figure in Indian theatre and cinema.

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Anand Abhyankar

Anand Abhyankar (2 June 1963 – 24 December 2012) was an Indian Marathi film, television and theatre actor.

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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh is one of the 29 states of India.

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Anjali Parvati Koda

Anjali Parvati Koda is a writer in Telugu films and a playwright.

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Arundathi Nag

Arundhati Nag (née Rao) (born 6 July 1956) is a film and theatre actress.

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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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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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Bhargavi Narayan

Bhargavi Narayan is an Indian film actress in the Kannada film industry, and a theatre artist in Karnataka, India.

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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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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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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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Chaya (literature)

Chaya (Sanskrit: Chāyā) is a word that means 'shadow' or 'gloss' meant to provide better clarity on what the prakrit words meant, and for resolving doubts about homonyms in prakrit.

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Chinawal

Chinawal is a village in the Jalgaon district of Maharashtra state, India.

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Cinema of India

The Cinema of India consists of films produced in the nation of India.

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Classical Indian musical theatre

Classical Indian musical theatre is a sacred art of the Hindu temple culture.

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Desire Under the Elms

Desire Under the Elms is a 1924 play written by Eugene O'Neill.

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Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.

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Durga Khote

Durga Khote (14 January 1905 − 22 September 1991) was an Indian actress, beginning as one of the foremost leading ladies of her times, she remained active in Hindi and Marathi cinema, as well as theatre, for over 50 years, starring in around 200 films and numerous theatre productions.

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Gujarati theatre

Gujarati theatre refers to theatre performed in the Gujarati language, including its dialects.

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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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Hāsya

Hāsya (Sanskrit: हास्य) is a Sanskrit word for one of the nine rasas or bhava (mood) of Indian aesthetics, usually translated as humour or comedy.

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Hema Bellur

Hema V. Bellur is an Indian film actress in the Kannada film industry, and a theatre artist in Karnataka, 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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History of film

Although the start of the history of film is not clearly defined, the commercial, public screening of ten of Lumière brothers' short films in Paris on 28 December 1895 can be regarded as the breakthrough of projected cinematographic motion pictures.

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History of theatre

The history of theatre charts the development of theatre over the past 2,500 years.

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Hooker with a heart of gold

The hooker with a heart of gold (also the whore with a heart of gold or the tart with a heart) is a stock character involving a courtesan or prostitute with a hidden integrity and kindness.

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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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I Am Missing You

"I Am Missing You" is a song by Indian musician Ravi Shankar, sung by his sister-in-law Lakshmi Shankar and released as the lead single from his 1974 album Shankar Family & Friends.

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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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Indo-American Arts Council

The Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC) is an American non-profit cultural organization that promotes Indian theatre, art, film, fashion, music, dance.

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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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Jim Sarbh

Jim Sarbh (born 27 August 1987) is an Indian film and stage actor.

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Karuna Banerjee

Karuna Banerjee (করুণা ব্যানার্জী) (25 December 1919 – 13 November 2001) was a Bengali actress best known for her role in Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959) as the long suffering mother, Sarbajaya.

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Kashmir

Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.

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Kehta Hai Dil Jee Le Zara

Kehta Hai Dil Jee Le Zara (English: The Heart Says Live a Little) is a Hindi-language Indian drama television series which premiered on Sony TV on 15 August 2013.

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Lakshmi Chandrashekar

Lakshmi Chandrashekar is an Indian film actress in the Kannada film industry, and a theatre artist in Karnataka, India.

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Lokesh Vijay Gupte

Lokesh Vijay Gupte (Marathi: लोकेश विजय गुप्ते) is a Marathi film, television and theater actor.

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Madhya Pradesh School of Drama

The Madhya Pradesh School of Drama or MPSD, is a theatre training institute situated at Bhopal, India.

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Manch Theatre

Manch Theatre is an Indian theatre group based in Hyderabad.

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Manjit Tiwana

Manjit Tiwana (born 1947) is an eminent poet, was born in Patiala, Punjab.

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Manohar Singh

Manohar Singh (1938 – 14 November 2002) was a distinguished Indian theatre actor-director and character actor in Hindi 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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Masala film

Masala films of Indian cinema are those that mix genres in one work.

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Master Hirannaiah

Hirannaiah or Hirannayya known by his stage name Master Hirannaiah, is an Indian film actor in the Kannada film industry and a theatre artist in Karnataka, India.

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Mohan Joshi

Mohan Joshi is an Indian film, television and theater actor.

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Mohan Upreti

Mohan Upreti (Hindi: मोहन उप्रेती) (1928–1997) was an Indian theatre director, playwright and a music composer, considered one of the pioneers in Indian theatre music.

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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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N. K. Sharma

N.K. Sharma is an Indian theatre director and acting teacher.

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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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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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Natyoshala

Natyoshala, is a unique Indian drama related non-profit organisation.

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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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Outline of India

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to India: India – seventh-largest country by area, located on the Indian subcontinent in South Asia.

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Outline of theatre

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to theatre: Theatre (also theater) – branch of the performing arts and a collaborative form of fine art involving live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event (such as a story) through acting before a live audience in a specific place.

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Pabitra Kumar Deka

Pabitra Kumar Deka (29 January 1940 – 5 January 2010) is a novelist, humor writer, publisher and editor of monthly magazine, film critic and script writer living in Assam in India.

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Parallel cinema

Parallel cinema is a film movement in Indian cinema that originated in the state of West Bengal in the 1950s as an alternative to the mainstream commercial Indian cinema, represented especially by popular Hindi cinema, known today as Bollywood.

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Pather Panchali

Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) is a 1955 Indian Bengali-language drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray and produced by the Government of West Bengal.

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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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Purple Pebble Pictures

Purple Pebble Pictures (PPP) is a film production company established by actor and producer Priyanka Chopra.

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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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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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Samahaara

Samahaara is an Indian theatre group based in Hyderabad.

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Sanjana Kapoor

Sanjana Kapoor (born 27 November 1967) is an Indian theatre personality and former Indian film actress of British and Indian descent.

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Santanu Bose

Santanu Bose is an Indian-theatre director and drama teacher.

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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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Street theatre

Street theatre is a form of theatrical performance and presentation in outdoor public spaces without a specific paying audience.

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Sudha Belawadi

Sudha Belawadi is an Indian film actress in the Kannada film industry, and a theatre artist in Karnataka, India.

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Teesri Kasam

Teesri Kasam (The Third Vow) is a 1966 Hindi language drama film directed by Basu Bhattacharya.

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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 Apu Trilogy

The Apu Trilogy comprises three Bengali films directed by Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956) and The World of Apu (1959).

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Theatre

Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.

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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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Uppalapati Narayana Rao

Uppalapati Narayana Rao is an Indian film Indian TV Indian Theatre director, screenwriter, scriptwriter, actor and producer, primarily known for his work in Telugu cinema and Telugu TV.

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Usha Parinayam

Usha Parinayam (ఉషా పరిణయము; English: Marriage of Usha) is one of the famous Indian dramas and films produced in different languages.

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Vijaya Mehta

Vijaya Mehta (born 4 November 1934) is a noted Indian film and theatre director and also an actor in many films from the Parallel Cinema.

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Waman Kendre

Waman Kendre is an Indian theatre director and academician.

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11th century

The 11th century is the period from 1001 to 1100 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Common Era, and the 1st century of the 2nd millennium.

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1901

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_India

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