Chitrakathi Shadow Puppet Show

500 Years of Stories, Told in Shadow & Light

30 MinsDuration All AgesBest For Colourful Shadows 📖 2 Panchatantra Tales 🎖️ Performed by Padma Shri Honoured Artist Family 500+ Years Old Tribal Art Form

What Makes It Special

"Watching painted leather puppets dance to life behind a glowing screen — a story tradition passed down for five centuries."

What To Expect

A living 500-year-old tradition, brought to your party

Chitrakathi is a centuries-old tribal art of storytelling through painted pictures and puppets, performed behind a lit screen so the figures appear as moving shadows. It's one of India's oldest surviving forms of visual storytelling — and your guests get to experience it live, not in a museum, but as part of the celebration.

Our artists travel all the way from Pinguli to perform at your party — a 30-minute act in which two stories from the Panchatantra unfold through shadow and narration, the same way this art form has been passed down for generations.

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Presented by the family of Parshuram Gangaram Gangavane, who was honoured with the Padma Shri — one of India's highest civilian awards — by the Government of India in 2011, for keeping the Chitrakathi tradition alive. Your party gets a performance from the very family credited with preserving this art form.

Chitrakathi Shadow Puppet Show

Chitrakathi in action

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