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The entertainers lacked food and cash not long after India went into lockdown on 24 March.
Circuses are currently a passing away art form in India, and the lockdown imposed to spread out the curb of the coronavirus has left them hardly holding on for survival. The BBC’s Chinki Sinha reports.
It is the night of 16 April.
Biju Pushkaran, 50, is wearing his polka dot overalls, his face painted with white powder, his cheeks reddened with vermilion and lipstick. Ready, he strolls into an empty tent in Airoli, a suburb of the western city of Mumbai.
Rambo Circus, which Biju belongs of, has actually not had a show given that 6 March. But that night they were participating in a live-streamed show in honour of World Circus Day.
” We will be available in to your homes and make you laugh,” he announced.
The entire team performs their routines without an audience to cheer and clap. While the program goes on, they understand the reality is that the curtain might well fall on them for great.
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India has more than 30 huge and little circuses.
In West Bengal state, Chandranath Banerjee, 61, has actually closed the doors on his Olympic Circus and informed all 75 members of his troupe to go home, with the promise that he would call them if they “ever make it out of these dark times”.
But Jayaprakasan PV, 52, the supervisor of Great Bombay Circus, doesn’t want to provide up.
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Circuses are streaming their shows on video during the lockdown.
Nearly 2 years earlier, India had 23 active circuses, organized in a nationwide federation, with practically 300 smaller sized circuses across the country.
Now, there are less than 10 registered circuses throughout India and 25 little ones and 1,500 artists including acrobatic teams from the hilly north-eastern state of Manipur.
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Circuses have actually composed to the government, seeking financial assistance to tide over the crisis.
Zsuzsanna Mata, the executive director of the World Circus Federation (FMC), stated over e-mail that “the pandemic has changed the course of history.
The circus as we know it, may be gone permanently.
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