![]() The manipulation requires great dexterity, since there are no joints. They are not coloured, hence throw opaque shadows on the screen. The puppets are in one piece and have no joints. The most theatrically exciting is the Ravanachhaya of Odisha.The music is dominantly influenced by the classical music of the region and the theme of the puppet plays are drawn from the Ramayana, Mahabharata and Puranas.Hence, these puppets throw coloured shadows on the screen. The puppets are large in size and have jointed waist, shoulders, elbows and knees. Tholu Bommalata, Andhra Pradesh’s shadow theatre has the richest and strongest tradition.The puppets however differ in size according to their social status, for instance, large size for kings and religious characters and smaller size for common people or servants. The shadow theatre of Karnataka is known as Togalu Gombeyatta.There are six shadow puppet theatre traditions across different regions in India, which are locally known as: Chamadyacha Bahulya in Maharashtra, Tholu Bommalata in Andhra Pradesh, Togalu Gombeyatta in Karnataka, Tolu Bommalattam in Tamil Nadu, Tolpava Kuthu in Kerala and Ravanachhaya in Odisha.Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. ![]() This tradition of shadow puppets survives in Orissa. The manipulation between the light and the screen makes silhouettes or colourful shadows, as the case may be, for the viewers who sit in front of the screen.Shadow puppets are pressed against the screen with a strong source of light behind it. ![]() They are cut out of leather, which has been treated to make it translucent.
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