Question

What are the characteristics that are demonistated in puppet show
(Tolubommalata)​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Puppets exist essentially to evoke a character in a performance, whether that character is embodied in a human being, an animal, a spirit, an idea, a feeling or, possibly even a gesture.A puppet's visual and technical qualities can, of course, only be appreciated in performance. In the theatre or on the sound stage, all the elements work together: movement, volume, colour and costume, facial expression - not forgetting lighting, music and vocal inflection. The puppet is truly an instrument destined for theatre

Answer 2

Tholu Bommalata, is ane old folk art.  The leather marionettes (puppets) are made by the artists themselves in finished goat leather at a height of between 5 and 6 feet. These puppets are decorated as per the nature of the roles in local natural colours.

Explanation:

• The performers belong to a group of touring entertainers and peddlers who spend a year singing ballads, telling luck and selling amulets, performing acrobatics and charming snakes, weaving fishnets, tattooing local people and mend pots.
• For centuries before radio, films, and television, this old customs brought to the farthest corners of the South, knowledge of Hindu epics and local folk tales, not to mention news.
• The figures, taken out of buffalo leather but also from doe's skins to form divine and royal characters, have always a face profile The shoulders, neck, wrists, elbows, hips, waist, feet & knees all have articulations that are joined by leather rivets.
• In certain figures, the mustache and mogul (Mughal), like baggy pants (shalvar), are worn by Rama and Lakshmana (brother of Rama)In general, the Ramayana & Mahabharata characters like Krishna, Rama, or Shiva (in his occasional appearances), are colored blue, Hanuman is red or black , Ravana is red, & the other demons are usually black
• Wearing a long skirt on which the articulated legs remain, there are two multi-colored clowns, Killekyatha and Bangaraku. Since about 1970, other comic characters, which had fixed or articulated phallus with "buffalo hair still" attached to the leather, have disappeared