Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) 2022 presents
Teelapur ka Rakshasha
by Anurupa Roy/ Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust
Country: India | Running Time: 40 | Language: Hindi, English | Year Of Release: 2020
About Teelapur ka Rakshasha
Teelapur is a town on a hill. A perfectly ordinary town, ruled over by an extremely popular King. A town which people leave in droves in fear of a monster that terrifies it. A town at war, where people are banned from reading books of their choice. In this town lives Guddu, separated from his family after the monster’s attack. In this town lives Chhotu, who reads books in secret, and asks dangerous questions. When Teelapur’s warriors return from a war they no longer understand, they join hands with Chhotu and Guddu to take on the monster.
Devised by: Anurupa Roy and Mohammad Shameem
Puppets by: Anurupa Roy and Mohammad Shameem
Music: Anirban
Co-producer: HELIOS Theater
About Anurupa Roy/ Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust
Anurupa Roy is a puppeteer, puppet designer and director of the puppet theatre. She is the Founder and Managing Trustee of The Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust since 1998. She is a recipient of the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar ine Puppetry (2006).
The Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust is a Delhi based puppet theatre company which began in 1998. Since then creating a rigorous training system for puppeteers has been a key focus for the group. In absence of a puppet school or courses to train professional puppeteers in India, Katkatha conducts intensive short courses and workshops in puppet techniques, supports interns who learn by following the work of the company. The focus is to train the next generation of professional puppeteers, create a discourse around puppetry and also build a network of puppeteers.
About The Festival
The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is an annual event showcasing films drawn from the world of theatre and performance. The festival presents experimental, emerging, and established theatre artists and filmmakers from around the world to audiences and industry professionals. The 7th annual festival will focus on work for the screen created by theatre artists during the Time of Corona. The festival will be held digitally from March 1st – 15th 2022.
Watch Teelapur ka Rakshasha from March 1st to March 15th 2022 on the Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) website.
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