THESE WERE PEOPLE WHO PRESENTED STORIES BEFORE SPECTATORS. THEY USED PICTURES, SONGS AND INSTRUMENTAL PLAYING TO RELATE STORIES BEFORE PEOPLE. THEY WERE KNOWN AS ‘CHITRAKATHI’, BUT THIS WAS SOME TIME BACK, MAY BE A FEW THOUSANDS YEAR. AS THE YEARS PASSED, THE TRENDS CHANGED, OLD CUSTOMS WERE REPLACED BY NEW ONES. OLD WAS FORGOTTEN IN THE CHAOS OF NEW. BUT IT WAS NOT VANISHED COMPLETELY. CINEMA TODAY, IS THE MORE ADVANCED FORM OF THOSE ‘CHITRAKATHI’. MADGULKAR REVEALS THE STORIES BEHIND THESE CINEMAS, TAKING THE PLACE OF A CHITRAKATHI
हजार वर्षांमागे ‘चित्रकथी’ होते. चित्र, गीत आणि वाद्य या तिन्हींच्या मेळातून, श्रोत्यांना रंगविणारी कथा सांगणारे ‘चित्रकथी`. जुन्यापिढीने हे लोक पाहिले आहेत. आत्ता मात्र काळाच्या लोंढ्यात ते वाहून गेलेत. पण पूर्णपणे काहीच नाहीसं होत नाही... ...त्याप्रमाणे चित्रकथीचं आधुनिक रूप घेऊनच जणू ‘सिनेमा’ जन्माला आला आहे. या सिनेसृष्टीतील अनुभव माडगूळकरांनी कथन केले आहेत स्वत: ‘चित्रकथी’ बनून.