Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of SANGEET NATAK

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Jun 23, 2012, 12:27:19 PM (12 years ago)

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salomex

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SANGEET NATAK

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+'''SANGEET NATAK'''
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+Marathi musical theatre tradition believed to
+have been launched by Vishnudas Bhave's
+Seeta Swayamvar(1853). The play adapted the
+coastal folk form of Dashavtara to the
+proscenium, merging it with visual art and
+theatrical forms from Tanjore while retaining
+elements like the use of a mobile cu11ain to
+signify spaces and to frame actors. It emerged
+as a popular urban art form alongside the art
+schools (practicing the academic visual art
+on the elaborate stage backdrops) and
+the music schools of the late 19th/earlv 20th
+C. The best-known initial groups were
+Annasaheb Kirloskar's Kirloskar :Natak Mandali
+(Est: 1880), Keshavrao Bhosle's Lalitkaladarsh
+(1908), Bal Gandharva's Gandharva Natak
+Mandali 0913) and Govindrao Tembe's
+Shivrai Natak Mandali (1915). Their initial
+theatrical repertoire adapted Sanskrit classics
+and Shakespeare: e.g. the famous playright
+G.B. Deval wrote five major plays, three
+adapting Kalidasa and one Shakespeare
+(Othello, as Zunzbarrao, Hl90) with only one
+original (Sangeet Sharada, 1898). The music
+usually created popular vernacular versions of
+classical North Indian music, adapted by
+singers like Ramakrishnabua Vaze and
+Bhaskarbua Bakhle (who taught Master
+Krishnarao). The form increasingly came
+under the influence of the operatic Parsee
+theatre, creating an influential local version of
+classical art, contemporaneous with (and
+sometimes formally similar to) Ravi Varma's
+paintings. The first feature film in India,
+Pu11dalik 0912), is based on a Sangeei Natak
+play by the Shripad Sangeet Mandali, Nasik.
+Later, Baburao Painter- a noted painter of
+stage backdrops translated its conventions
+into cinematic mise en scene. The form greatly
+influenced the early Prabhat Studio via e.g. the
+noted composers Tembe and Krishnarao and
+the stage stars Bal Gandharva and Vishnu pant
+Pagnis, as well as many other theatre actors
+who turned to the cinema. Sangeet Natak
+troupes, travelling through Maharashtra,
+Gujarar, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, also
+set in place much of the distribution
+infrastructure of the early Kolhapur and Pune based
+Marathi cinema.
+
+[[Glossary]]