Veteran Leader Sharad Pawar to Inaugurate 31St Pune Festival on September 6Th
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Press Release 31/ 08/2019 Veteran leader Sharad Pawar to Inaugurate 31st Pune Festival on September 6th Pune Festival a confluence of music, dance, drama, art, singing, instruments, sports and culture is celebrating its 31st year. It will be inaugurated at 4:30 pm on Friday, September 6th at Ganesh Kala Krida Ragmanch by veteran Leader Sharad Pawar. Tourism Minister of Maharashtra Jaykumar Rawal, Girish Bapat (MP), Amol Kolhe (MP), Ex Minister Harshwardhan Patil, Actress Urmila Matondkar, Managing Director of Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation Abhimanyu Kale, Pune’s Mayor Mukta Tilak, and Deputy Mayor Dr. Siddharth Dhende will be present as the guest of honour on the occasion. This year in Pune Festival there will be raft of diverse events. Danseuse actress Hema Malini's Ganga Ballet, All India Urdu Mushaira, Hindi humorous poetry convention, Marathi Hasya Kavi Sammelan, Mahila Mahotsav comprising Miss Pune Festival and Various competitions of dance, painting and cooking, Lavani for women, Keral Matosav, Kirtan Mahotsav, Uagawate Tare and Indradhanu, Marathi Drama, Musical Instrument, classical vocal and dances, Hindi Marathi songs program and various sports competitions will be the spectacular highlight of Pune Festival. Pune Festival’s patron, actress and danseuse Hema Malini presents her each ballet in Pune Festival. During the 30 years of the Pune Festival, she has presented her new ballet or Ganesh Vandana 27 times. This time, Hema Malini will present her ballet 'Ganga' at 8 pm on Sunday, September 8th. The Pune Festival is organized jointly by the Pune Festival Committee, Puneite citizens, Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation and Department of Tourism, Government of India. The installation of Pune Festival’s Ganesha will take place at 10 am on September 2nd at Hotel Saras, Nehru Stadium at the hands of dy VC of SPU Dr. NS Umarani. Actress Girija Prabhu, Actress Manasi Musale, Actress Aayali Ghiya and FBB Miss India Campus Princess 2018 winner Apoorva Chavhan will be present on the occasion. Vedmurti Dhananjay Ghate Guruji will officiate the ceremony. The achievers from various fields are felicitated with 'Lifetime Achievement Award' and 'Pune Festival Award' during the Inauguration ceremony. This year, veteran Industrialist Rahul Bajaj and veteran Film Actor Prem Chopra will be honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Moreover, senior Actor Subodh Bhave, Drama Actor Prashant Damle, Secretary of Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad Milind Joshi, Women Entrepreneur Usha Kakade and Body Builder Sangram Chougule will be honoured with the Pune Festival Award. On the background of flood situation in Maharashtra, Rs. 2 Lakhs will be given by Pune Festival to CM Relief Fund. Every year the Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Mandal in Pune celebrating their centenary year is felicitated at Inauguration function of Pune Festival. This year Kasturi Chawk Mitra Mandal and Nimbalkar Talim Ganeshotsav Mandal will be honored at the Inauguration Function. The Inauguration ceremony this year will start with the Sanai recital by Tukaram Daithankar. It will be followed by the collective conch blowing by the 20 young men and women of ‘Panchjanya Shankhnaad’ clad in Salwar, Guru Shirt and Puneri Pagadi. Santosh Potdar has organized this. After this, Nandini Gujar will perform Ganesh Vandana. Kathak dancer Tejaswini Sathe and Bharatanatyam dancer Arundhati Patwardhan, along with 12 co-artists, will present Ganesh Vandana, a fusion of Kathak and Bharatanatyam based on the Sanskrit verse 'Ganesh Pancharatnam - Muda karat Modakam'. Amod Kulkarni has arranged the music for the same. This will be followed by Bollywood Ganesh Pooja, a special dance presentation worshipping Shri Ganesha, by the ‘Sidhaksha Production’ of Siddhi Potdar and Akshay Gupta based on great songs and mantras 'Jai Dev Jai Dev Shri Ganaraya, Lambodhara tu Vinayaka, Sukhkarta Dukhharta, Sangto Naman and Hare Rama Hare Rama’. This will comprise of 18 boys and girls artistes and Sidhi Potdar has choreographed it. Thereafter ‘Japanese Dancicle Tyko’ will be performed by 11 Indian disciples of Guru Pandita Manisha Sathe with Kathak. 25 - 30 boys and girls students of renowned BKS Iyengar Institute will perform the collective Yogasanas. Amrita Godse has composed music for the same while Iyengar Guruji's granddaughter Abhijata Iyengar and disciple and yoga teacher Raya has coordinated it. Krishnakant Kudale, who served as the Chief Coordinator of the Pune Festival for 30 years since the inception of the Pune Festival, passed away last year. A film offering tribute to him will be shown at the occasion. It is produced by Subhash Surve. A program of dance and music 'Aapla Keral' showcasing the rich cultural traditions of Kerala in form of Kathakali, Bharatnatyam, Mohiniatyam, Thiruvathirkali, Kuchipudi and other various dance forms will be performed by 40 girls and boys artist in traditional costumes. Rajan Nair, President of Pune Malyali Federation has organized this. The Inauguration ceremony will culminate with the fusion dance of Lavani and Ghumar in which cine stars Teja Devkar, Sanskriti Balgude, Bhargavi Chirmule, Manasi Musale, Girija Prabhu and Vaishnavi Patil are participating in it. They will be joined by 30 - 40 artists of Pune Festival. Nikita Moghe of Payal Vrund has choreographed the same. Sudhir Gadgil will be the Marathi compeer of the Inauguration ceremony while Durriya Shifchandler will be English compeer. The opening ceremony will be followed by the All India Urdu Mushaira at 9:30 pm at Ganesh Kala Krida Rangmanch. The famous Urdu poets such as Popular Meeruthi (Meeruth), Manzar Bhopali (Bhopal), Iqbal Ashhar (Delhi), Riyaz Sagar (Muzaffar Nagar), Afroz Alam (Dubai), Atul Ajnabi (Gawalior), Shahid Adeeli (Hydreabad), Shaista Sana (Kanpur), Anjali Ada (Kashmir), Rehana Shaheen (Aligarh), Dr. Mehtab Alam (Bhopal) Sharf Nanparvi (Delhi) are participating in it. Former Minister of Textiles and Minorities Development of Maharashtra Mohammed Naseem Arif Khan will be the Chief Guest for the same. President of Maharashtra Cosmopolitan Education Society, Pune and convener of All India Urdu Mushaira Shri. P. A. Inamdar and President of The Deccan Muslim Institute, Pune Smt. Abeda Inamdar have coordinated it. The Hindi humorous poetry convention has been organized at 8 pm on Saturday, September 7th at Shri Ganesh Kala Krida Rangmanch. Renowned poet Subhash Kabra will compeer the program in which Colonel Dr. V P. Singh from Pune, a president’s medal winner who has organized many programs for the soldiers, TV and radio star poet Mahesh Dubey from Mumbai, poet Ashok Sundrani of Ratlam who has participated in more than 1000 humorous poet conventions, Rajendra Malviya of Itarsi who is famous as ‘Alasi’ and Padmini Sharma of Delhi who has earned fame in lyrical and gazals will be participating in it. Former vice- president and member of the Khadki Cantonment Board Manish Anand, member Pooja Anand and former president of Pune Municipal Education Board Sangeeta Tiwari have organized this. Pune Festival’s patron, actress and danseuse Hema Malini presents her each new ballet in Pune Festival. During the 30 years of the Pune Festival, she has presented her ballet or Ganesh Vandana 27 times. This time, Hema Malini will present her ballet 'Ganga' at 8 pm on Sunday, September 8th. The music is by Padmashree Ravindra Jain, Ashit Desai and Alap Desai while the choreography is done by Bhushan Lankandri. The costume is by Neeta Lulla, research by Ram Govind, dialogues and song by Padmashree Ravindra Jain and Shekhar Awasthi. Suresh Wadkar, Kavita Krishnamurti, Shankar Mahadevan, Mika Singh, Rekha Rao, Hema Desai and Alap Desai are the playback singers for the program. Besides these programs, various cultural programs have been organized under the Pune Festival at Bal Gandharva Rangmandir and Kala Dalan, Yashwantrao Chavan Natyagruh and Sankalp Hall, Navi Peth in which Mahila Mahotsav, Ugawate Tare and Indradhanu, Kirtan festival and other cultural events will be prominent. Mahila Mahotsav Like every year, many events and competitions have been organized under the Mahila Mahotsav to promote the artistic qualities of women. • Miss Pune Festival - A special attraction of women, will take place from 3.30 pm to 7.30 pm on September 4th at Yashwantrao Chavan Natyagruh. In this, 150 young women have participated and 20 women will be selected for the final and from which the final 3 winners will be selected. Jui Suhas will be grooming Mentor and fashion choreographer while Supriya Tamhane has organized it on behalf of the Pune Festival. • Cooking Competition - Like every year, the cooking competition has been organized at 10 am to 4 pm on Wednesday, September 4th at Sankalp Hall, Navi Peth. The participants have to bring forgotten spicy items prepared from home while sweet recipe is to be prepared at the spot. More than 250 women have participated in this and the winners will be given attractive prizes. There will be demonstrations as well at the occasion. Veteran Actress Asha Kale will be the chief Guest on this occasion and she will demonstrate some recipes too. Anjali Wagale, Rachna Patil, Kishore Sarpotdar and Chef Sarvesh Jadhav have coordinated this for the Poona Guest House, Austin 40 Café and Eat Out at Tapari. • Mangalagauri Games - Mangalagauri Games will be showcase on this occasion from 4 pm to 5 pm at the same spot after cooking competitions. • Dance competition for Women - The dance competition for women has been organized on Sunday, September 8th at 12.30 pm to 6 pm at Yashwantrao Chavan Natyagruh. These include solo dance competitions in the age group of 20 to 35 years and 36 to 50 years and group dance competitions in the age group of 20 to 50 years. Prizes will be awarded to the first three winners in each of the three age groups. Sanyogita Kudale and Deepali Pandhare have coordinated this for Pune Festival. • Lavani for Women – Lavani program has been organised for only women viewers from 12.30 pm to 3 pm on Tuesday, September 10th at Balgandharva Rang Mandir.