Mangala Bansode

Mangala Bansode is a performing folk artist from Maharashtra an Indian state. She is associated with the art-form tamasha. She is daughter of Vithabai Bhau Mang Narayangaonkar.^[1] She has won the Vithabai Narayangaonkar Lifetime Achievement Award awarded by the government of Maharashtra.^[2] She works along with her son NItin, who is fifth generation of her family in the line.^[3] It has been said that she is the only woman owner of a tamasha troupe in Maharashtra.^[1] She is from the Village of Karawadi near Karad. Her troupe has 150 persons in employment.^[4]

Anecdotes

In January 2016 just before her performance in the Goa Lokotsav,^[5] a rumour spread about her death that she had to scotch by going to press.^[6] In the 2013 season her troupe received the biggest payement advances amongst all at Narayangaon's tamasha fair.^[7] It is said that Bansode's granddaughter a doctor had to disassociate herself with her grandmother's profession in order to improve her matrimonial situation, however she wishes her grand-daughter Sayali - her son Nitin's daughter to be the sixth generation performing.^[8][3]

References

1. 1 2 Faleiro, Sonia. "The Other India: Mangalaji's Tamasha Party". India Ink. Retrieved 2016-12-18. 
2. ↑ "Lata Mangeshkar Award for Lifetime Achievement announced for Krishna Kalle". India.com. 2014-08-29. Retrieved 2016-12-18. 
3. 1 2 Abp Majha (2016-09-08), माझा कट्टा: लावणी सम्राज्ञी मंगला बनसोडे, retrieved 2016-12-18 
4. ↑ "Pune: Tamasha groups feel the heat of drought as bookings dip by 40%". The Indian Express. 2016-04-07. Retrieved 2016-12-18. 
5. ↑ "Goa’s Lokotsav becoming India’s biggest Folk and Craft Fest". Goa News. Retrieved 2016-12-18. 
6. ↑ "मी ठणठणीत आहे, हितशत्रुंनी माझ्या मृत्यूची अफवा पसरवली - मंगला बनसोडे". Eenadu English Portal. Retrieved 2016-12-18. 
7. ↑ "तमाशा पंढरीत झाली २ कोटींची उलाढाल -Maharashtra Times". Maharashtra Times. 2013-04-15. Retrieved 2016-12-18. 
8. ↑ "The last act". Retrieved 2016-12-18.