Mangala Bansode

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{{Infobox artist
| name = Mangala Bansode
| birth_place = [[Karawadi]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|1|26|df=yes}}
| nationality = Indian
| known_for =[[Tamasha]] artist
| awards = Vithabai Narayangaonkar Lifetime Achievement Award,<br/> Anna Bhau Sathe Puraskar
| website = {{URL|mangalabansode.com}}
| spouse = Ramachandra Bansode
|mother =[[Vithabai Bhau Mang Narayangaonkar]] |father =Anna Sawant Merchant}}
'''Mangala Bansode''' is an Indian Tamasha folk artist popularly known as ‘Sangeetachi Rani’,<ref name="Bansode">{{cite news |last1=Bansode |first1=Mangala |title=‘We are ready to keep Tamasha alive, provided we get help’ says Sangeetachi Rani |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/pune-news/we-are-ready-to-keep-tamasha-alive-provided-we-get-help-says-sangeetachi-rani/story-kG2wikDUhca5KfobHshcVO.html |access-date=23 March 2021}}</ref> from the [[Maharashtra]] & She is daughter of the [[Vithabai Bhau Mang Narayangaonkar]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/the-other-india-mangalajis-tamasha-party/?_r=0|title=The Other India: Mangalaji's Tamasha Party|last=Faleiro|first=Sonia|newspaper=India Ink|access-date=2016-12-18}}</ref> she has won the Vithabai Narayangaonkar Lifetime Achievement Award awarded by government of [[Maharashtra]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.india.com/news/india/lata-mangeshkar-award-for-lifetime-achievement-announced-for-krishna-kalle-133627/|title=Lata Mangeshkar Award for LifetimonAchievement announced for Krishna Kalle|date=2014-08-29|newspaper=India.com|access-date=2016-12-18}}</ref> She works along with her son NItin, who is fifth generation of her family in the line.<ref name=":1">{{Citation|last=Abp Majha|title=माझा कट्टा: लावणी सम्राज्ञी मंगला बनसोडे|date=2016-09-08|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drE6xOyoRK8|accessdate=2016-12-18}}</ref> It has been said that she is the only woman owner of a tamasha troupe named Loknatya Tamasha Mandal<ref name="Bansode"/> in Maharashtra.<ref name=":0" /> She is from the Village of [[Karawadi]] near [[Karad]]. Her troupe has 150 persons in employment.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/pune-tamasha-groups-feel-the-heat-of-drought-as-bookings-dip-by-40/|title=Pune: Tamasha groups feel the heat of drought as bookings dip by 40%|date=2016-04-07|newspaper=The Indian Express|access-date=2016-12-18}}</ref>

== Anecdotes ==
In January 2016 just before her performance in the Goa Lokotsav,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.goanews.com/news_disp.php?newsid=6639|title=Goa’s Lokotsav becoming India’s biggest Folk and Craft Fest|newspaper=Goa News|access-date=2016-12-18}}</ref> a rumour spread about her death that she had to scotch by going to press.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://marathi.eenaduindia.com/State/WesternMaharashtra/Pune/PuneCity/2016/01/15093457/my-death-rumors-say-mangla-bansode.vpf|title=मी ठणठणीत आहे, हितशत्रुंनी माझ्या मृत्यूची अफवा पसरवली - मंगला बनसोडे|newspaper=Eenadu English Portal|access-date=2016-12-18}}</ref> In the 2013 season her troupe received the biggest payment advances amongst all at [[Narayangaon]]'s tamasha fair.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com/maharashtra/pune-news/-/articleshow/19549299.cms|title=तमाशा पंढरीत झाली २ कोटींची उलाढाल -Maharashtra Times|date=2013-04-15|newspaper=Maharashtra Times|access-date=2016-12-18}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/tamasha-theatrical-entertainment-drama-plays/1/652794.html|title=The last act|access-date=2016-12-18}}</ref><ref name=":1" />

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