His knee stretched and his head thrown back, he furiously slaps the drum, producing intricate rhythm patterns. But arouing Jalgaon the dancing girls, expert in singing lavanis, get fifty rupees or more per night.The best-known troupe is the Bhau Bapu Khude Narayangaonkar Gummat founded by the late Bhau Mang, who came from the Mang community. The artists put up a superb stage performance leaving the audience spellbound. If the visiting company is famous, the auditorium may be jammed with as many two thousand people.Among the habitues of the theatre is a sixty-year-old pleasnt-looking man wearing smoked glasses who sits on a wooden chair in the booking office.

Sometimes he sings for the character. Often quarrels, jealousies, and fights erupt. Jagatsinghpur: Moghul Tamasha, unique theatre tradition that dates back to the Moghul era, was showcased in the annual Jagatsinghpr Zilla Maoshtav. Her image inspired Mahar women, and hundreds of them joined the Tamasha troupes. It is the spine of the play. The woman senses the trick. One sees only Thakkoo and forgets the presence of singers and actors.The newly formed troupes have attracted girls untrained in the Tamasha tradition. If she is offered food in her new home (and she is terribly hungry), it is good manners fro her to refuse it. The owener of the theater, Ahmeth Seth Fakir Mohammed Tambe, manages four troupes. The actor -playwright P L Deshpande, who gives two hour solo performances of his own satirical comedies, used the Tamsha in Sarvodaya (“Good to All”), a political satire. The higher the pitch the more skillful they are considered. She bends and sways “like a rice shoot”, as the common saying goes. The players improvise, adding double meanings and erotic clowning. When a saucy Tamasha woman appears, a wave of enthusiasm sweeps the auditorium.

He was a superb composer, whose fame spread throughout Maharashtra. The Halgiwala and Tuntuanawala wear almost the same dress with slight variation.

The familiar pattern of dialogue is as follows:After this follows the philosophical interlude of the Sawal-Jawab kee Lavani (“Song of Question-Answer”), a sudden change from the nonserious to the serious to give weight to the program. They renounce the line, in a high soprano that few female singers could reach. 'Lavanis' due to which, this folk art, was very popular among the common people. Even the British continued the tradition.The dark-skinned Mahars form the backbone of Tamasha. It includes both singing and dancing forms. Over the course of four years, our festival has featured over 200 artists across the disciplines of theatre, dance, music, spoken word, and comedy.The year’s festival featured eight female-identifying South Asian playwrights whose work was presented in collaboration with a range of institutions in New York and the greater Tri-state area. The dancer establishes a direct relation with the audience by her coquerty and acts the “public woman” while the spectators whistle and shout and ask her to sing their favorite pieces.The Tamasha is a theater of release.

The Mahars, scavengers by hereditary profession, had joined the army as fighting men. The Halgiwala and the Dholkiwala distribute a sound sentence and play it between themselves, carrying on a rhythm conversation. The first people to join in this form of entertainment were Mahars and Mangs, two outcast communities. Two headmen fight over the right to light the fire at the Holi festival. Chhatrasal, the rajah of Bundelkhand, was pleased with Bajirao’s heroic deeds and presented him with a beautiful dancing girl, Mastani, who, riding on horseback, went to wars by the side of Bajirao and became his consort. Ahmed Seth is involved in the business because of the “spice of life” it gives him. Shivaji had a Mahar platoon. The Mughals set foot in Odisha towards the end of 16th century, following the reign of Afghans. In Poona one sees them sweeping the roads and at once recognizes them by their sturdy grace. The old folk theatre style Moghul Tamasha is passing through tough times as people now-a-days are glued to TV sets. Jahrhundert v. Chr. The characteristic stance makes the player look as if he were constantly ready to spring.The halgi is a small drum made of a wooden hoop with the skin of a goat’s belly tightly stretched over one side and the other open. She fell in love with Ram Joshi and started living with him. He had eight ministers. The manjeera player strikes sharp metallic notes, swaying and rocking as he throws his voice from the pit of his stomach. In his personal diary, Shahu mentions gifts of land and jewelry to Tamasha players.For one hundred years the Tamasha flourished in the Maharashtrian land. The Rajkamal Film compnay of Bombay produced a popular hit on the life of Ram Joshi, the eighteenth-century Tamasha composer.