Katyar Kaljat Ghusali is a Marathi musical play (Sangeet Natak), originally released in 1967.
The play starts with Uma, daughter of Pandit Bhanushankar Shastri alias Panditji, the ex-royal singer (Rajagayak) of the princely state of Vishrampur, making preparations to leave the Haweli as her father's successor, the new Rajagayak is about to arrive.
A while later when Khansaheb is having a chat with Banke Bihari, the royal poet, a tired young man enters, talking about how this was the very place he was wanting to come.
On gaining consciousness, he reveals that he is Sadashiv Gurav, a boy from Miraj, whom Panditji had met and taught twelve years ago.
After a while, he asks Sadashiv to stop and refuses to teach him saying that the boy's style is very much like Panditji's, and cannot be changed to suit him.
The main character of Khan Saheb in the play has been done by many actors after Vasantrao Deshpande including Pt.
Padmakar Kulkarni, Dr. Ravindra Ghangurde, Chandrakant Limaye, Charudatta Aphale[4] and Rahul Deshpande [5] The play was revived by Bharat Natya Sanshodhan Mandir, Pune in the year 2001.
The play was revived in 1997 by Pandit Chandrakant Limaye again with a new cast including Pandit Chandrakant Limaye, Amol Bawdekar, Raghunandan Panshikar, Deepashri Kale, Suvarna Kagal [10] The play was revived in 2010 again with a new cast including Rahul Deshpande, grandson of Pt Vasantrao Deshpande, Mahesh Kale and Subodh Bhave.