Yamunabai Waikar
| Yamunabai Waikar | |
|---|---|
| Born | Wai, Satara, Maharashtra, India |
| Occupation | Folk artist |
| Awards | Padma Shri Sangeet Natak Akademi Award Maharashtra State Award Ahilyabai Holkar Award Nilu Phule Samman SNA Tagore Ratna Samman Aditya Vikram Birla Kalasikhara Award Rasikmani Shrikrishna Pandit Uttung Gunagaurav Award |
| Website | Official web site |
Yamunabai Waikar, née Yamunabai Vikram Jawle[1] is an Indian folk artist,[2] known for her expertise in the Marathi folk traditions of Lavani and Tamasha, fork art forms involving music and dance and reported to be one of the leading exponents of the art genres.[1][3][4] A recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award,[5] she was honored by the Government of India, in 2012, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.[6]
Biography
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At the beginning, we sang the traditional laavnis, but when we realised that people liked to listen to film songs, we added those to our repertoire too, reminiscneces Yamnubai, on her Mumbai street days.[7]
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Lavani dancers from sangeet bari genre don’t use their full names. They use their initial name and afterwards a name of a encampment as their last, and supplement ‘kar’ to it, such as Shakuntala Nagarkar, writes Bhushan Korgaonkar, author of Sangeet Bari, a book on Lavani[8]
Yamunabai was born in a family with meagre financial resources in Wai, in Satara district in the Western Indian state of Maharashtra.[7] Her father was reported to be a drunkard and her mother resorted to begging for a living and Yamnunabai, being the eldest of the five children, assisted her mother to get alms by performing street dances.[7] At the age of 10, she joined a folk art group from where she had her first lessons of Lavani. Later, when her father joined them, the family formed a Tamasha troupe with her father playing the Dholki while Bai and her cousin danced.[7]
Looking for better earnings, the family moved to Mumbai and Yamunabai started performing Lavani and film songs on the streets of Mumbai. Encouraged by the success of her street shows, she did a stage show, which launched her stage career lasting till 1975, when the popularity of cinema and diminishing audience affected the returns.[7] Though Yamunabai tried to revive her career once again forming a new troupe, gathering her nieces, the attempt was not successful. During this period, she is reported to have a completed a low cost housing project for the members of the Kolhati tribe, the tribe where she came from.[7]
Yamunabai has shared the stage with the renowned Kathak guru, Birju Maharaj, who is reported to have appreciated her performance in 1975, staged in Delhi.[8] The performance helped to revive her career once again and she had opportunity to perform in other parts of the country such as Kolkata, Bhopal, Raipur.[7]
Awards and recognitions
Yamunabai Waikar is a recipient of several awards and honors such as the Maharashtra State Award in 1990,[7] Ahilyabai Holkar Award[7][1] from the Government of Maharashtra in 2000 and Nilu Phule Samman in 2010.[1][9][10] Sangeet Natak Akademi honored Yamunabai in 1995 with their annual award[1][7] and followed it up with the Life Time Achievement award of Tagore Ratna Samman in 2012.[1][11][12] The Government of India included her in the 2012 Republic Day honours list for the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.[6][1][7] The same year, she received Aditya Vikram Birla Kalasikhara Award from the Sangeet Kala Kendra, founded by Aditya Vikram Birla.[13] Two years later, in 2014, she received the Rasikmani Shrikrishna Pandit Uttung Gunagaurav Award at the Uttung Anniversary Festival.[14]
See also
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References
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