Pandvani is one of the most celebrated forms of folklore from Chhattisgarh. In recent recent years its popularity outside this region owes much to the lauded performer Teejan Bai. Known mostly as a regional/ folk version of the Mahabharata, its terms of relationship with the Sanskrit epic are…
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Chetan Devangan is the chief disciple of the famous Pandvani singer Jhaduram Devangan. He is the senior most Pandvani singer. He is not only a Pandvani singer but a logist of oral traditions and especially, Pandvani. In this conversation, Chetan Devangan talks about the trajectory of Pandvani in…
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Lakhan Singh Dhruv
Pandvani are lore of the Pandavas sung and recited in Chhattisgarh. This video presents a rarely sung and little known form of singing the Pandvani known locally as Khatgayan Pandvani. The story, part of regional lore, recounts adventures that lead to the marriage of Sahadev, with…
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Mushtak Khan
लगभग अड़तालीस वर्षीय पंडवानी गायिका प्रभा यादव पंडवानी के पितामह कहलाने वाले झाडूराम देवांगन की शिष्या और वर्तमान पंडवानी गायकों की अग्रिम पंक्ति में से एक हैं। पंडवानी प्रस्तुति और प्रक्रिया में परंपरा तथा कलाकार की निजिता का क्या स्वरुप है इस विषय पर उनके विचार जानना रुचिकर है।…
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Pandvani is one of the most celebrated forms of folklore from Chhattisgarh. In recent recent years its popularity outside this region owes much to the lauded performer Teejan Bai. Known mostly as a regional/ folk version of the Mahabharata, its terms of relationship with the Sanskrit epic are…
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Pandvani is one of the most celebrated forms of folklore from Chhattisgarh. In recent recent years its popularity outside this region owes much to the lauded performer Teejan Bai. Known mostly as a regional/ folk version of the Mahabharata, its terms of relationship with the Sanskrit epic are…
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Kunj Bihari Devangan, Basil, district Billai, Chhattisgarh
This video presents a conversation with Kunj Bihari Devangan, son of the famed Pandvani singer Jhaduram Devangan. He speaks on his father's legacy, on the shaping of Pandvani performances and the introduction of the banjo as musical accompaniment . …
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Meena Sahu, Ranchirai, Balod, Chhattisgarh.
This video presents a conversation with Meena Sahu -a noted performer of the Pandvani in Chhattisgarh.
This content has been created as part of a project commissioned by the Directorate of Culture and Archaeology, Government of Chhattisgarh, to document the cultural and natural…
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Pandvani is the lore of the Pandavas sung and recited, in Chhattisgarh and other neighboring regions . Recitations of this lore have in recent times been based on the written text of the Mahabahrata, sourced mostly through a bhasha written by Sabal Singh Chauhan. However older…
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Kumari and Chameli Nishaad. Aklordeeh, Durg, Chhattisgarh
Pandvani literally means singing and enacting the stories and songs of the Pandavas. The Pandvani singer sings and enacts an episode from the Mahabharata (with variations).
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