Mangala Bansode
| Mangala Bansode | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Indian |
| Known for | Tamasha artist |
| Awards | Vithabai Narayangaonkar Lifetime Achievement Award |
| Website | mangalabansode |
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. She has won the Vithabai Narayangaonkar Lifetime Achievement Award awarded by the government of Maharashtra. She works along with her son NItin, who is fifth generation of her family in the line. It has been said that she is the only woman owner of a tamasha troupe in Maharashtra. She is from the Village of Karawadi near Karad. Her troupe has 150 persons in employment.
In January 2016 just before her performance in the Goa Lokotsav, a rumour spread about her death that she had to scotch by going to press. In the 2013 season her troupe received the biggest payement advances amongst all at Narayangaon's tamasha fair. 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.
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