Leather Puppetry Art Form

The ancient art form of leather puppetry is on the brink of extinction, even as the number of puppeteers residing on the banks of Buckingham Canal in Madhavapatnam gram panchayat near Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, has dwindled owing to an unprecedented change in their religious profile.

• A majority of them embraced another faith and subsequently quit puppetry which is purely based on Hindu mythological stories.

About the Leather Puppetry

• The Leather puppetry are shadow puppets, in which flat figures cut out of leather are pressed against the translucent screen and which appear as a silhouette or color shadow to viewers on the ....