Twist In The Folktale

Chandrasekhar Kambar

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Each of the playwrights in Twists In The Folktale takes a folktale andturns it into a contemporary experimental play, intervening in thetraditional material and reshaping conventions from an urban perspective.Although the folk and rural elements remain embedded in the body of thenarratives, it is interesting to note the shifts and intersections which occurin the process of rendering folktales as present-day performative texts.Jokumaraswami by leading Kannada playwright and poet Chandrasekhar Kambar isa vibrant, earthy play which creatively reworks the folk myth of a phallic godof fertility into a powerfully contemporary anti-feudal message. Pebet isa folktale about a mother bird fighting to protect her children from a predatorycat politicized by H. Kanhailal, who transforms this familiar story into astruggle against the political and cultural colonization of Manipur. CharandasChor by veteran playwright/director Habib Tanvir, performed by NayaTheatre's Chattisgarh folk artists, is a contemporary Indian classic depictingthe irrepressible folk hero and 'honest thief', Charandas, a Robin Hood figurewho charms his ways into everyone's hearts.

Chandrasekhar Kambar

(born 2 January 1937) is a prominent Indian poet, playwright, folklorist, film director in Kannada language and the founder-vice-chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi also president of the Sahitya Akademi, country's premier literary institution, after Vinayak Krishna Gokak (1983) and U.R. Ananthamurthy (1993). He is known for effective adaptation of the North Karnataka dialect of the Kannada language in his plays, and poems, in a similar style as in the works of D.R. Bendre. Kambara's plays mainly revolve around folk or mythology interlinked with contemporary issues,[4] inculcating modern lifestyle with his hard-hitting poems. He has become a pioneer of such literature. His contribution as a playwright is significant not only to Kannada theatre but also to the Indian theatre in general as he achieved a blend of the folk and the modern theatrical forms. He has been conferred with many prestigious awards including the Padma Bhushan in 2021, Jnanpith Award in 2011 for the year 2010, Sahitya Akademi Award, the Padma Shri by Government of India, Kabir Samman, Kalidas Samman and Pampa Award. After his retirement, Kambara was nominated as the Member of Karnataka Legislative Council, to which he made significant contributions through his interventions.