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Gujarat Artists

Gujarat's artists are known for its dances, its folk theatre and some of India's finest textiles and crafts.

Dance and folk theatre

Garba and dandiya raas are danced through the nine nights of Navratri. Bhavai, a folk theatre of songs, comedy and stories, travels from village to village. In Ahmedabad, the dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai founded the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts in 1949.

Painting

Ravishankar Raval, remembered as the Kalaguru of Gujarat, trained a generation of painters. Tribal Pithora paintings decorate homes in eastern Gujarat.

Textiles and crafts

Patan is famous for double-ikat Patola silk, and Kutch for embroidery, bandhani tie-dye, ajrakh block printing and Rogan painting; the Rogan artist Abdul Gafur Khatri of Nirona received the Padma Shri.

Cinema

The actor Sanjeev Kumar was born in Surat, and Gujarati cinema and theatre remain popular in Ahmedabad, Surat and Mumbai.

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