Kabuliwala Kamal Pruthi believes that adults often enjoy more than children as they refresh their nostalgia of childhood by engaging and at times performing while he performs. The question and answer session come as a surprise to them as they see participating actively and answering questions that we do not discuss at home.
Irony is that adults feel it is not for them, when it actually is. Kabuliwala is the storyteller and picks out stories from his jhola. He/she gathers and performs stories that reflect their life with a moral always hidden in it. This style of performance includes theatrical elements of all genre in the performances. “Storytelling has a bright future but one needs to gain respect and set a benchmark. In earlier times kings called theatre artists and storytellers to their durbar so as to teach their children. These days there are no kings but elite people do spend on this art form and consider it the best way to entertain and teach their children,” explains Pruthi. How do I begin? Will folks laugh at me? How do I book my first gig? How will I get paid? These are questions most professional storytellers may have asked themselves There are people working as professionals in different companies, while at the same time following their passion of storytelling. It is tough for them to turn their passion into a profession the monetary returns are not too encouraging.
“In a country like India, where artists don’t get much respect and money, it’s difficult to choose storytelling as a profession. According to me if you want to survive you can’t just depend on storytelling you have to do some other work also to generate income,” laments contemporary storyteller Aakash Hingorani.
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