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Mangala Bansode

Mangala Bansode is an Indian Tamasha folk artist popularly known as ‘Sangeetachi Rani’, from the Maharashtra. She is daughter of the Vithabai Narayangaonkar, she has won the Vithabai Narayangaonkar Lifetime Achievement Award awarded by government of Maharashtra. She works along with her son Nitin, who is fifth generation of her family in the line. She is from the Village of Karawadi near Karad. Her troupe has 150 persons in employment.

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Mangala Bansode
Born (1951-09-12) 12 September 1951
Narayangaon, Puna district, Bombay State, (Present-day Pune district, Maharashtra) India
Known forTamasha artist
SpouseRamachandra Bansode
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Websitemangalabansode.com

Mangala Bansode is an Indian Tamasha folk artist popularly known as ‘Sangeetachi Rani’,1 from the Maharashtra. She is daughter of the Vithabai Narayangaonkar,2 she has won the Vithabai Narayangaonkar Lifetime Achievement Award awarded by government of Maharashtra.3 She works along with her son Nitin, who is fifth generation of her family in the line.4 She is from the Village of Karawadi near Karad. Her troupe has 150 persons in employment.5

Anecdotes

In January 2016 just before her performance in the Goa Lokotsav,6 a rumour spread about her death that she had to scotch by going to press.7 In the 2013 season her troupe received the biggest payment advances amongst all at Narayangaon's tamasha fair.8

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References

  1. Bansode, Mangala. "'We are ready to keep Tamasha alive, provided we get help' says Sangeetachi Rani". Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  2. Faleiro, Sonia. "The Other India: Mangalaji's Tamasha Party". India Ink. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  3. "Lata Mangeshkar Award for LifetimonAchievement announced for Krishna Kalle". India.com. 2014-08-29. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  4. Abp Majha (2016-09-08), माझा कट्टा: लावणी सम्राज्ञी मंगला बनसोडे, retrieved 2016-12-18
  5. "Pune: Tamasha groups feel the heat of drought as bookings dip by 40%". The Indian Express. 2016-04-07. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  6. "Goa's Lokotsav becoming India's biggest Folk and Craft Fest". Goa News. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  7. "मी ठणठणीत आहे, हितशत्रुंनी माझ्या मृत्यूची अफवा पसरवली - मंगला बनसोडे". Eenadu English Portal. Archived from the original on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  8. "तमाशा पंढरीत झाली २ कोटींची उलाढाल -Maharashtra Times". Maharashtra Times. 2013-04-15. Archived from the original on 2019-04-22. Retrieved 2016-12-18.