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Kamal Pruthi
Kamal Pruthi is counted among the top five trendsetting and most renowned performance storytellers of India. A recipient of Polska theatre fellowship from Poland in 2015 as the distinguished theatre practitioners of the world, he also received a South Asian fellowship for his excellence in the field of Arts management in 2014. In 2006 Pruthi was awarded Goethe Scholarship for young and emerging theatre practitioners of the world to get trained in Germany. Kamal, who is popularly known as Kabuliwala, started his theatrical journey 19 years ago in Delhi in 1999 and got trained in acting and physical theatre in Berlin, NSD’s TIE Company (97’) and at Sri Ram Centre for Performing arts in Delhi in the years 2001-03.

Founder of “Museum Theatre Company” in 2012, Kamal is a guest faculty on Storytelling at several Delhi Colleges, and teaches Drama, storytelling and creative writing to students, teachers, parents and corporate employees in Schools, NGOs and MNCs respectively.

Appeared in more than 60 interviews in all major newspapers of India, Afghanistan and Dubai, Kamal is the only storyteller in India who also performs in German.

Statistics
Kamal Pruthi is a script writer(2 short films, 1 feature film), lyricist(25+ songs in 3 languages) literary translator(5 books in 3 languages), web journalist(interviewed over 50 personalities), performance storyteller(300+ live shows across 12 states) and actor (30+ plays and 2 feature films).

Kamal has so far performed in 8 languages i.e. Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, German, Bangla, English, Gibberish and Kannada.

Kamal has performed in Germany, Bangladesh and Poland apart from covering 12 states of India.

He has also received Rex Karmaveer Chakra award for his excellence in the field of Storytelling and theatre.

Delhi based.

Kabuliwala Storyteller
Kamal’s reinterpretation of Kabuliwaala (the man from Kabul) as a storyteller is of a young and energetic man from Kabul works as a pied piper for kids, who comes with a jhola(big bag) full of tales for everybody. As a performance storyteller Kamal performed more than 250 live shows over in 12 states for more than 15000 children and adults.

The good old Kabuliwala with his white beard is gone and has left behind him a Young and energetic Kabuliwala with a big turban to empty his jhola(bag) of stories for kids. Young Kabuliwala shows the kids what all is he hiding for them in his jhola. Kids travel to and explore the world of stories with him. His jhola(bag) is full of tangibles and intangibles mainly folk tales.

The very popular Kabuliwaala has been performed at Katha Utsav, Kahani Tree, Chandigarh Children’s literature Festival, German Springfest by Indo German Chamber of Commerce, Delhi University, Dream Camp for under privileged children, GHP School, GTB School, Summerfield School, Banyan Tree, Make a Difference, Vidya n Child School, Swechha, German teachers association, Akshay Pratishthan School, World Book Fair Delhi, World Earth Day, Indian School, Pinnacle School, Indirapuram Public School, We love Summers festival in Ambience Malls, Atta Galatta, Oxford Book Store and organized events on World Storytelling Day, World Theatre Day, International Children’s Books Day and Children’s Day.

Theatre Director (Museum theatre Company)
Many people are reminded of Promenade theatre form when they hear about it. Museum Theatre form is an absolutely new, fresh and unconventional form of Storytelling. Here the audience, instead of being stationary or so to say comfortably seated at one place, rather moves within the expanse of a defined space, along with a theatre guide, very much like in an actual museum and all through the length of the show the audiences locate themselves as an integral part of the performance and explores hidden story in the space. The surprise and experiential element in this form makes it loved by the audiences. His directed Play Aadab Manto Sabeh was performed from May 2012 to November 2012 in Museum form in Bangalore, Delhi and was also invited to open the Ninasam Theatre Festival in Karnataka’s Heggudu village.

Film and TV Actor
Kamal made his debut in 2008 on a DD Urdu serial Sabak. Most recently he played the role of a crime detective in a crime thriller "A Pitch Dark Diorama" and lead alien in a children's science fiction comedy film "Pluto in my Momos". He also has a few ad films, corporate films and short films to his credit. As a live anchor he presented more than 20 children's shows for Virsa, an initiative of Ministry of Culture for the schools across India.

Literary Translator
Kamal has been translating literary texts mainly children’s literature in Hindi, German and English. Kamal is the only storyteller in India who translates the literary works and also performs in Hindi, Urdu and German. He runs and moderates literary forums "Garma Garam Chai" (A hot cup of tea) and “Kagaz Kalam” (Pen and Paper) for the promotion of new literary translators, authors, poets and playwrights. Major literary translations

His major translations include
•	Grips Play Mugnog Kinder from German to Hindi titled Machhandar •	Play Spaghetti with Ketchup (from German to English) Grips theatre Berlin •	A parable “An emperors message” by Kafka from German to Hindustani •	Sammy an English play by Partap Sharma in German •	Love is in the Air, a German TV series from German to English •	Chameli a bollywood film directed by Sudhir Mishra in German •	Aaina an Indian folk tale in German •	An English Play Mandap by Vijay Padaki in Hindi •	Short plays Mistake and Catastrophe by Chech president Vaclav Havel in Hindustani •	Kabuliwala, an Indian folktale from Hindi to German. •	Excerpts from “An autobiography of a sex worker” from English to Hindustani

Awards & Recognitions
Kamal is a recipient of 8 international scholarships (2 of them are theatre scholarships from Germany and Poland, one is for his translations and writings of children literature). As an actor he won best actor award for short and sweet theatre festival bengalore and short and sweet corporate theatre festival in 2013-14. He also received Rex Karmaveer Chakra award for his excellence in the field of Storytelling.

Press Links
1.	THE Hindu Delhi Jan 2015- On Bagful of stories http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/kamal-pruthi-kabuliwala-storytelling/article6767867.ece

2.	IAM IN- ON PR for Arts and bringing theatre into limelight http://www.iamin.in/en/bangalore-south/news/getting-theatre-limelight-41240

3.	Deccan Chronicle Bengaluru- Afgani connection of Kabuliwala and his jhola http://www.deccanchronicle.com/content/tags/kamal-pruthi

4.	YOU tube channel- https://www.youtube.com/user/kamalpruthithespian

5.	SODELHI- Kabuliwala’s insights http://www.sodelhi.com/expert-interviews/tete-a-tete-with-the-kabuliwala-kamal-pruthi

6.	Bangalore mirror May 2015- Theatre and storytelling in Corporate trainings http://www.bangaloremirror.com/columns/you/Twist-in-the-tale/articleshow/47237081.cms

7.	THE Hindu Delhi Feb 2015- Storytelling as a Profession and Art http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/once-upon-a-time-in-a-land-far-far-away/article6884742.ece

8.	The Tribune Chandigarh March 2015- On Children’s literature festival http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/life-style/for-the-young-by-the-young/36412.html

9.	Deccan Herald Noida Nov 2014- On Tagore and Kabuliwala http://www.deccanherald.com/content/442359/world-through-eyes-storyteller.html

10.	Times of India May 2015- On Indo-Afghani relationships http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Delhis-Kabuliwala-and-his-bagful-of-tales-11052015104015

11.	Offdhook April 2015-Reviving the Art of Storytelling http://www.offdhook.com/anc/kabuliwala-reviving-the-art-of-story-telling-in-india/ …….

12.	http://www.millenniumpost.in/NewsContent.aspx?NID=110563

13.	http://www.allaboutbookpublishing.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1049:storytelling-with-a-difference&catid=69:kids-a-teens&Itemid=153

14.	http://thehinducolumn.blogspot.in/2012/08/the-relevance-of-manto.html

15.	http://www.newdelhiworldbookfair.gov.in/upload_document/104___show-daily---2015_ndwbf.ndwbf_page/Show_Daily_on_22.02.2015.pdf

16.	http://www.deccanherald.com/content/442359/world-through-eyes-storyteller.html

17.	http://kafka.szemzo.hu/?p=141

Contact
Kamal lives and operates all his artistic works from Delhi. His residence cum office in east Delhi’s Laxmi Nagar is the place of all sort s of artists who collaborate and create artistic products from there.