Pune festival, the real autobiography of cultural Pune; this phrase is suitable to express what Pune festival is all about. This festival is one of the huge and famous festivals of Pune. This festival is bang on in the August and September months means when the Ganesh festival is going on. Around last 20 years, this cultural and art festival is happily organized and celebrated with lots of enthusiasm. The duration of this festival is very suitable for this festival mean ten days, that’s why people can make their life’s ten days glorious and refresh their souls through experiencing the festival. This festival was started in the year of 1989; it was established by the respected chairman of MTDC Suresh Kalmadi. He thought and decided to start the big cultural event of Pune, which will showcase the talent, art, culture, customs, and achievements of the local artists. The locations of this festival are different like in the start of the festival all the outdoor programs done on the open space of the Pune’s Nehru stadium, and their also many attractive and historical places where programs held like Ramchandra Sabhamandap, Rang Mandir and Tilak Mandir etc. the major location, where the major part of the festival is held is Ganesh Kalakrida Manch, it has been made by the Pune’s municipal system, which helps to developing culture of Pune. The festival starts by worshipping the delightful idol of Lord Ganesh, as Hindu religious customs. As this festival is just about the art and culture, that’s why all the events of this festival display the art and culture. There are many popular artists’ wants to become a part of the Pune festival, not only national artist’s take part in this festival but also popular international artists come in this festival. Vocal music, different events of sports, dance and folk artists with their unique instrument are the essential part of the Pune festival. To attend this colorful event, you need not to spend lots of money because the entry for this festival is free. There are lists of events which attracts the people.
In this event, numbers of Poetic of various humorous come in this event and present their poems. As similar as, like in earlier days, poetic such as Shanta Shelke and Pu. La. Deshpande and other famous poetic meet at one place and share their poems. This event also includes Hasya Bhushan contest and Marathi dramas.
The stage where the Hindu God Ganesh has been worshipped on that same place, the event of Urdu Shayar’s is held which represent the other community or religion. This display the assimilation of the people who are belongs to other religion but live happily with giving respect to other religion.
This event shows the Lavani Dance art form. Where Lavani artists of Pune city and other nearby villages come and display their dance art, in this Lavani Mahotsav.
In this theatre event, you will get to see theatre performances of regional languages such as Gujarati, Marathi, English, Hindi and Sindhi.
In this, the very well popular artists perform their talent and participate in this festival like the very famous Bollywood actress Hema Malini, every year’s Pune festival; she performs the Bharat Natyam dance form which takes the special attention of all the viewers of the festival. In one specific year, she also performs the fourteen Ganesh Vandana. The tradition of her performance is still going on, and may be it will be continued till many years.
The upcoming dancers and musicians get the perfect stage to explore their talent in front of the millions of people. There are Rahul Shivkumar, Ahana Deol, Ayaan and Aman Khan, Shrinivas Joshi all these younger generation has been performed in the Pune festival which has given young generation’s touch to this festival. This cultural festival is like launching pad which gives to boost to the new artists which have created their identity in the national level.
During this Pune festival, the atmosphere of Pune is just become full of art colors. Here you will also get to see the handicrafts made by the local and nearby villagers, textiles, famous traditional cuisines and colorful Costumes of the Maharashtra.
10 Jan 2022 to 16 Jan 2022
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