Awe Sentiment in Garhwali Folk Drama, Folk Theater, Community Rituals and Traditional Plays

गढवाली लोक नाटकों में  भय  भाव

Review of Characteristics of Garhwali Folk Drama, Folk Theater/Rituals and Traditional Plays part -18

                                        Bhishma Kukreti

                           Defining Awe Sentiment

            Bharat’s Natya Shastra defines awe sentiment that in any drama  the awe sentiment is projected by tremor of limbs, state of panic, terror, dried up mouth and lips, wide eyes and like that.

                  Dr Shiva Nand Nautiyal provides the following example of fear emotion in Garhwali folk drama.

गढवाली लोक नाटकों में भय    भाव

वायु मसाण को भयो वर्ण मसाण

वर्ण मसाण को भयो बहतरी मसाण

बहतरी मसाण को भयो चौडिया मसाण

*** ****** ***** ******* **** **** *****

वीर मसाण , अधो मसाण मन्त्र दानौ मसाण

तन्त्र दानौ मसाण

बलुआ मसाण , कलुआ मसाण , तालू मसाण

************* ********** *************************

डैणी जोगणी को लेषवार , नाटक चेटको फेरवार

मण भर खेँतड़ी , मण भर गुदड़ी , लुव्वाकी टोपी बज्र की खंता

(रौख्वाळी गीत

इकबटोळ करण वाळ : डा शिवानन्द नौटियाल

 When a person is affected by an evil soul the folk doctor does a ritual Rakhwali and narrates the above Rakhwali prose-poetry. The person affected by evil/devil soul shows the signs of awe sentiment by terror on his face, panic wide eyes and dried mouth and lips. Surprisingly, the audience also feels the sentiment of awe when there is ritual of Bhut Bagao or dispatching bad soul/evil soul away from the affected person.

            Unforgettable Awe sentiment on face of Fearful Gopal Kala

 There are many informal folk drama played by individuals daily and all the time. This author remembers a drama happened due to Keshva Nand Barthwal of Khand village, Bichhla Dhangu, Pauri Garhwal.

Period- 1963-64

Place- Silogi , Malla Dhangu, Pauri Garhwal School Boarding House. A small lane coming from Kitchen to Boarding house (distance between Hostel and kitchen would be 50-100 meters). Silogi school hostel was surrounded by pine and oak tree jungle   

Timing – 8PM-9Pm, Moon Light

         We  five school boys of aged 12-14 years were coming back from kitchen after dinner towards our lodging rooms. Gopal Kala (now BJP leader in Kotdwara) was also with us. Suddenly, Keshva Nand with loud cry jumped from above contour before us. We were stunned. However, Gopal Kala became fainted due to fear. His mouth was dried, his mouth was open due to fear and his hands were shaking.  We took Gopal Kala to hostel where our warden late Purushottam Kukreti (village Kathud Bada, Malla Dhangu) performed Rakhwali ritual to dispatch the fear of Gopal Kala.  

 The drama was created by Keshva Nand Barthwal and he was successful in creating awe sentiment.

Copyright @ Bhishma Kukreti, bckukreti@gmail.com  18 /10/2013

Review of Characteristics of Garhwali Folk Drama, Folk Rituals and Traditional Plays part to be continued…

                    References

1-Bharat Natyam

2-Steve Tillis, 1999, Rethinking Folk Drama

3-Roger Abrahams, 1972, Folk Dramas in Folklore and Folklife 

4-Tekla Domotor , Folk drama as defined in Folklore and Theatrical Research

5-Kathyrn Hansen, 1991, Grounds for Play: The Nautanki Theater of North India

6-Devi Lal Samar, Lokdharmi Pradarshankari Kalayen 

7-Dr Shiv Prasad Dabral, Uttarakhand ka Itihas part 1-12

8-Dr Shiva Nand Nautiyal, Garhwal ke Loknritya geet

9-Jeremy Montagu, 2007, Origins and Development of Musical Instruments

10-Gayle Kassing, 2007, History of Dance: An Interactive Arts Approach

11- Bhishma Kukreti, 2013, Garhwali Lok Natkon ke Mukhya Tatva va Charitra, Shailvani, Kotdwara

12- Bhishma Kukreti, 2007, Garhwali lok swangun ma rasa ar Bhav , Chithipatri

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