Kashmiri artist on mission to revitalize traditional folk theatre ‘Bhand Pather’

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Bhand Pather is a centuries-old form of Kashmiri traditional folk theatre..

According to the Guru Shishya Parampara, it is an oral tradition in which the scripts are passed down from one generation to the next...

Notably, Bhand Pather is an age-old traditional folk theatre of Kashmir..

While the "Bhand Pather" a traditional folk theatre of Kashmir is dying with each passing day in the valley, a young Kashmiri artist, Rayees Wathoori who hails from central Kashmir's Budgam district has started a mission to breathe it again..

Rayees said that there should be proper government policy in place to provide relief to artists associated with the art so that more and more interesting people can join it...