"KATPUTLIS" the show must go on...

Not only with strings attached... Puppets!

There are as many as seventeen or eighteen distinct traditional forms of PUPPETRY in India which use glove puppets, rod puppets, string puppets and shadow puppets. More over, modern and contemporary puppeteers have widened the frontiers of this art.
The word 'Puppet' is derived from the words like pupi or putli which means doll. But puppets are not quite dolls because they are moved by the puppeteer to stimulate life! So, movement is essential to the puppets.

There are glove puppets (woven on the hand like mitten), Rod puppets (moved by little sticks or rods attached to the puppet's body), string puppets (moved by threads attached to the puppet's body) and shadow puppets (cut-outs used to project shadows).

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