From time to time the Ishara puppet theater Trust, has been working with collaborators and agencies, producing puppets and masks for various TV , video programmes and events. Using Muppets and Marrots, in education, folk tales, satires and celebrations.
 


Running time: 5 min
Language: Hindi
No of segments: 20
"Funny Things" based on the popular tradition of Spitting Image is a send of on Indian politicians and the politics of the time. Issues both big and small formed a core part of this hysterically funny program which ran on a news magazine Eye Witness -"Hindustan Times" for nine months.
Teamwork Films produced the program.
 
Popular folk tails of Kashmir were adapted and narrated threw the character of two cats.
The stories made full use of the local idiom in using costumes, sets and properties from the region of Jammu and Kashmir.
Produced for DoorDarshn Kashir Channel.
Produced by Pulse media pvt Ltd.Directed by Himanshu
Running time -15-20 minutes.
Language Kashmiri.
Segments- 13
 
 


In Mumbai and Delhi, a celebratory piece with large masks symbols of the Sun, Moon, Stars and Nature, choreographed to specially composed music by Louis Banks .
A Teamwork Films presentation

 
For the Godrej centenary pavilion, Ishara created an animation with large body puppets and movement, to the famous poem by Rabindranath Tagore

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake “

The performance played on a height, in a large acrylic mirror finished drum that acted as a scrim, Animating every hour for 15 minutes, with spectacular lighting music and narration.

The pavilion was designed by Oriel Design .

KHAJURAHO MILLENIUM FESTIVAL


THE INAUGURATION OF THE KHAJURAHO MILLENNIUM CELEBRATIONS - 1999
Teamwork Films was commissioned by the State Government of Madhya Pradesh and the Ministry of Culture & Tourism to design and produce the Inaugural ceremony of the Khajuraho Millennium Celebrations, by the President of India. The ceremony set in the midst of the sacred Shiv Sagar lake, washed in a thousand shades of orange by the setting sun, with the magnificent temples in silhouette, recreated the legend revolving around the birth of the Chandela dynasty. The event was telecast live across the nation and was watched by an estimated 35 million people.

 


("china TV part of the star network")

A multi media presentation using large rod puppets, dancers and a live band, playing on different levels At the Purana Killa " Old fort Delhi " a site specific work.

A Teamwork Films presentation.
 

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