TOLUBOMMALATA
Type : Puppet Show
Popular Puppets : Heroes And Villains Of Local Mythology
A Puppet Show
Tolubommalata is another best known and one of the earliest Telugu folk
theatre forms of Andhra
Pradesh. 'Tolu' means skin and Bommalata means puppet show. Ages
before the days of the camera and the cinema, leather puppetry was the
most popular form of rural entertainment in the Indian subcontinent.
Puppeteers
manipulate these colourful puppets using sticks from behind a curtain.
Here the static art forms are endowed with activity and mobility. They are
in fact human caricatures.
Making Of A Puppet
Puppets are made from buffalo or sheep hide, they are bleached and tinted
with local paints. The popular themes of these puppet shows are based on
the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. The most popular figures are the heroes
and villains of local mythology.
These puppets help in presenting the mythological stories in a very
entertaining and a lively manner. The dolls are made of goatskin, which
after being cured and dried is made translucent by a special process. The
figures are beautifully painted with vegetable dyes. The Tolu Bommalata is
now a dying art though a very popular form of entertainment in olden days.
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