Book Details
ISBN: 9789353174385
Edition: 3
Publishing Year: April 2020
Pages: 312
Language: Marathi
Category: Fiction

Tamasha, the traditional Marathi folk theatre, stood on four major pillars: drama, erotic sensual lavani songs, and traditional rhythmic music played on percussional instruments like dholki. Along with such social and historical dramas performed in the Tamasha mobile theatres in the jamboree of village fairs, a galaxy of great actors and female artists also created their own significant legacy.

Vishwas Patil has interwoven his new novel on the backdrop of mobile Tamasha troops’ heritage and culture. Here, the protagonists are Bakerao, a great singer, musician, and prolific actor, and the beautiful Rangakali, who creates her own nebula of songs, dances, and acting. This is a painful love story between Bakerao and Rangakali, centered on their passion and attraction towards each other’s legendary artistic virtues. Their separation is unavoidable, but their reunion is enchanting. Finally, their purest love marches toward the cobwebs of destiny.

A powerful novel written by one of todays major Indian novelists, set against the backdrop of folk songs, drama, and culture, will surely captivate the readers and take them through an entirely new, unknown, and captivating world.