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] She is from the Village of Karawadi near Karad.
[5] 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.