Mangala Bansode is an Indian Tamasha folk artist popularly known as ‘Sangeetachi Rani’,[1] from the Maharashtra & She is daughter of the Vithabai Bhau Mang 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] It has been said that she is the only woman owner of a tamasha troupe named Loknatya Tamasha Mandal[1] in Maharashtra.[2] 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] 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.[9][4]

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