Dadi Pudumjee

Pudumjee is a Parsi from Pune,[1] where he did his university education was in Pune later at the NID National Institute of Design and Darpana Academy of Performing Arts in Ahmedabad under late Meher Contractor, after which he went to the Marionette Theatre Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and studied puppetry under Michael Meschke.

Archived 20 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine Pudumjee's puppetry is not restricted to the more common versions of string and hand-puppets.

Some of his performances are adaptations of material familiar in traditional Indian theatre, like the story of Ram and Sita or his 2004 work based on the adventures of Vikram and Betaal (Vampire Tales), titled Transpositions.

[2] He has traveled widely to perform as well as teach in many countries including the U.K., Russia, Japan, Australia, Indonesia, Brazil, U.S.A, Sweden, Singapore, South Africa, Spain.

2010 will be the 8th season of this popular festival, with both traditional and modern puppet groups from India and abroad taking part.