Dastangoi

Dastangoi is a 13th century Urdu oral storytelling art form.Hindavi Dastangoi invented by Amīr Khusrow. The Persian style of dastangoi evolved in 16th century. This form of the art was revived in 2005 and thousands of shows have been performed in India and abrod since than. One of the earliest references in print to dastangoi is a 19th-century text containing 46 volumes of the adventures of Amir Hamza titled Dastan e Amir Hamza.

The art form reached its in the Indian sub-continent in the 19th century and is said to have died with the demise of Mir Baqar Ali in 1928. Indian poet and Urdu critic Shamsur Rahman Faruqi and his nephew, writer, director Mahmood Farooqui, have played significant roles in its revival in the 21st century.

At the centre of dastangoi is the dastango, or storyteller, whose voice is his main artistic tool in orally recreating the dastan or the story. Notable 19th-century dastangos included Amba Prasad Rasa, Mir Ahmad Ali Rampuri, Muhammad Amir Khan, Syed Husain Jah, and Ghulam Raza.

Dastangoi has its origin in the Persian language. Dastan means a tale; the suffix -goi makes the word mean "to tell a tale".

Hindustani Dastangoi also known as Hindavi or Darbari Dastangoi. is an oral art of storytelling.

13th century. Legend has it that Amir Khusrow's master and Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya had fallen ill. To cheer him up, Amir Khusro started telling him a series of dastans Qissa-e-Chahār Dervish (قصه چهار درویش ' The Tale of the Four Dervishes / Bagh-o-Bahar (باغ و بہار, "Garden and Spring") (One Thousand and One Nights style dastan). By the end of the stories, Nizamuddin Auliya had recovered, and prayed that anyone who listened to these stories would also be cured.

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