Chaitime with Mahmood Farooqui about Dastangoi: The Lost Art of Urdu Storytelling - Dec 29, 2013

In this Chaitime we talk to Mahmood Farooqui about Dastangoi and also listen to few excerpts from his live shows. Dastangoi is the once thriving art of Urdu storytelling in North India which came to an abrupt end with the death of the last great practitioner in 1928. Farooqui is credited with almost single-handedly reviving a traditional performance art of story-telling, dastangoi. He has published on this subject, and received awards for his cultural work in this arena. His engagement with dastangoi is more than scholarly, however. Farooqui is a performance artist who is reviving this art form through his own practice. His performances have been critically acclaimed. Farooqui is also known for his film Peepli Live (2010), a scathing critique of post-liberalization media culture and politics in India, which he co-directed. For more information on this art form see:http://dastangoi.blogspot.com/