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Padma Vibhushan Teejan Bai's pandvani

Hearty congratulations to the theatre community as Teejan Bai is awarded Padma Vibhushan in 2019. Born in 1956 in what is now Chattisgarh, she is one of the very few woman performers of Pandvani, a folk art form of Chattisgarh, popular across central India. Pandvani (songs of Pandavas) involves spoken poetry by a narrator accompanied by musicians, singing incidents from Mahabharata without the use of stage settings or props. It involves theatrical use of mimicry, movement, song and dance. Vedamati and Kapalik are the two styles of narration in Pandavani. In the Vedamati style, the lead artist narrates in a simple manner, sitting on the floor throughout the performance. The Kapalik style, of which Teejan Bai is one of the most prominent proponents, is livelier, where the narrator actually enacts the scenes and characters. Habib Tanvir was also deeply inspired by the Pandvani form and aesthetics, the influence of which can be seen in many of his popular performances. This is an excerpt from the TV series 'Bharat Ek Khoj', directed by Shyam Benegal, where a 32 year old Teejan Bai can be seen already ruling this art form. While it is difficult to deconstruct the reasons due to which such performances continue to move us through centuries, it can be said doubtlessly that these narrative traditions compose our collective consciousness, our Indian culture, our soul. They carry a remarkable power if used in context of our ancient texts, but do also carry the potential to energize modern Indian content. They can and should also be reinvented, reimagined, used in new ways, as done by Habib Tanvir. But ignoring these in modern theatre would be to our own peril.