Mangala Bansode

Mangala Bansode is an Indian Tamasha folk artist from the Maharashtra & She is daughter of the Vithabai Bhau Mang Narayangaonkar,[1] she has won the Vithabai Narayangaonkar Lifetime Achievement Award awarded by 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]

Mangala Bansode
Born (1954-01-26) 26 January 1954
NationalityIndian
Known forTamasha artist
Spouse(s)Ramachandra Bansode
AwardsVithabai Narayangaonkar Lifetime Achievement Award,
Anna Bhau Sathe Puraskar
Websitemangalabansode.com

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 granddaughter Sayali - her son Nitin's daughter to be the sixth generation performing.[8][3]

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