Mahipat Kavi - famous Indian Puppeteer in Gurjarvani , Ahmedabad, India

Mahipat Kavi and daughter Puppeteers 

Mahipat Kavi - Puppeteer from Gujarat, India

Mr Mahipat Kavi, his wife Leelavati and daughter visited Gurjarvani studio on 13th June 2013. Interviews of all three were given as part "Sarjakona Sathware" Being with the creators - series of Gurarvani. Soon we will be on youtube with parts of the interviews which are highly inspiring. We thank the Kavi family for the great contribution they are making to the great traditional culture of Gujarat.
Devasia m

Daughter of Mahipat also puppeteer and singer, dancer

" Jalne padade" A Play on kavi Kant

Kamal Joshi

Kamal Joshi

Satish Vyas receives a gift from Ashok Vaghela, director Gurjarvani

Kamal Joshi receives a gift from Anand Rao, on behalf of Sangath

The whole team of the play

 

A mono-act play: Jalane Padade

On the occasion of the silver jubilee of Gurjarvani, Xavier Center for Culture and Communication, SANGAATH presented a mono-act play, “Jala ne Padade”.  This play portrayed the life of the famous poet in Gujarati literature Manishankar Ratnaji Bhatt, better known as Kavi Kant who accepted Christianity to attain inner peace. The play written by Satish Vyas and directed-acted by Kamal Joshi presents the deep struggle Kavi Kant went through while accepting Christianity for his personal reasons and later had to give up Christianity due to the on-going boycott by the entire society. The mono-act play is beautifully choreographed with sound and light arrangements to powerfully present the conflict and creativity in the life of Kavi Kant.

The play was staged at Diamond Jubilee auditorium at St. Xavier’s Loyola High School, Naranpura, India at 5 pm on 22^nd January, Saturday.