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Tamasha
a basic Indian theatrical form, consisting of songs and dances. Originating around the 17th century, the tamasha became popular in the state of Maharashtra, where performances about the feats of Krishna and the Marathi warrior heroes were staged in an open square, without scenery, makeup, or costumes. Singers, illustrating their songs through pantomime, were accompanied by a chorus and often even by a small group of musicians playing a drum, a dulcimer, and flutes. Around the turn of the 19th century, the tamasha became a popular folk theater about contemporary life. With the growth of the anticolonial movement, however, at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the tamasha began to take an increasingly social direction. In Bombay today there are professional troupes that perform in the genre of the tamasha. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | It's no easy task: Her tamasha kid sister is a telephone sex operator who won't call her didi like in Laga Chunari Mein Daag; her mother isn't quite like Simran's mother in DDLJ and could probably have done a better job playing Linda Hamilton in Terminator II, and her father is a closet Hershey's' eater, who is a curious mix of Homer Simpson and OJ Simpson. If the Islamic brotherhood wants to understand why so many Muslims nations are in such a mess, they only need to examine how their elite have upended the holiest month of the faith, one in which they are meant to turn to Allah and practise the highest values of the Quran -- piety, charity, self-denial, sacrifice -- and turned it into a month-long tamasha. Pilgrims attend the Kumbh to see and experience both religious and secular aspects (cumulatively known as tamasha or spectacle) of the event. |
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