Wadkar’s refusal of being element of Tamasha film pointssuggests towards notions of immorality that had been associated with ‘popular’ performancetive forms including tamasha and lavani which was staying extended for the cinematic task. While the girl later became the part of the film and portrayed the role of Bayabai, the lavani artist and love interest of Ram Joshi in the film, the reason sheto this transformed of her initial decision is certainly not explicitly stated in her personal account, her working with Baburao Painter and V. Shantaram under the banner of Rajkamal Kalamandir could possibly be one.
The initial denial of doing work in a tamasha-oriented film considered as immoral and lecherous reinforces the rules of top caste and middle school morality which will wasere section of the Marathi community discourse. Rege further remarks that the nineteen forties was also the period the moment Bombay State imposed analysis on the tamasha and lavani which was considered as obscene and immoral. So while the tamasha based movies were increasing there was a decline of the real tamasha and lavani performers, there was clearly appropriation of their cultural kind, and their manifestation and libido as they got no control of the image of the tamasha musician within the film in which these people were objectified and overtly sexualised. This actually impacted the true Tamasha and lavani artists such as sangeet bharees facing the threat of seal, the re-casting of Tamasha and lavani performers throughout the cinematic rendering further added to the overt sexualisation and stigmatisation in the lavani artists.
Sanjay Narwekar in Marathi Theatre: In Retrospection suggests that regarding the film Elektrotriebfahrzeug Shahir Ram memory Josh (1947) that the intended form of the biographical was obviously a mere excuse to interject the radiant lavanis and sawal-jawabs which will became the rage of audiences in Maharashtra. This kind of refers to the objectification of lavani and tamasha through its splitting up from the narrative and genre of the film. While there was a shift in the narrative traits of the Marathi cinema using its shift towards ‘rural’ inspired films, there have been also try to engender the Marathi middle-class public. This is through the intersection of the literary sphere and cinematic sphere ” as the Studio era of Marathi cinema was also tightly associated with the writers such as Narayan Hari Apte, later there have been literary characters such as P. K. Atre, G. M. Madgulkar and P. L. Deshpande etc . It was throughout the realist narrative, sentimentality of films just like Prapanch (1961) that uppr caste, middle-class morality was asserted. ThisIt was through the writings of these literary numbers about the Marathi-world watch which was created in Marathi social sphere such as devotional songs, tamasha etc (Ingle, 2017). Through Sangte Aika (1959) and Sawal Mazha Aika (1964) the sub-genre of tamasha films which will centralised the tamasha and lavani performers’ lives was consolidated within the Marathi ‘gramin chitrapat’ or rural cinema, consisting oftituting of the non-urban narratives and also rural functionality formstives such as tamasha, sawal-jawab, lavani and so forth, which noticeable the construction in the rural people as unlike urban-middle course audiences.
It is in the decade of 1970s and 1980s that ‘rural’ cinema was re-cast in terms of what Hrishikesh Ingle refers to as the ‘mofussil’ spectacle embodied through the films of Dada Kondke (Ingle, 2015, p. ). Its story content included the ‘sexualised female figure of heroine who was mainly a tamasha performer, Kondke’s articulation of the double-meaning listenings and the song-dance sequence combining the rural through lyrics and visualisation’ (Ingle, 2017, p. 213). This caricatured theatrics, the double-entendre lines in addition to the tamasha and lavani sequences then created the vision of traditional rurality through cinema. The ‘mofussil’ spectacle popularised through Kondke re-imagined the regional social spaces for event from urban centers like Pune and Bombay to small-towns, and working class localities in the urban centers. Along with this the popularity of Kondke’s films wasere also acknowledged to the touring talkies which in turn went on to the decorations of traditional western Maharashtra, Marathwada and Vidarbha circulatingwhich distributed the videos in the villages circuits (Ingle, 2017). The aesthetics of Kondke’s movies wasere produced from the working category, vernacular stage performance and the lacked of cinematic lineages, Kondke’s history of labour class and involvement in the circuits of stage shows i. at the. loknatya, (urban form of country tamasha) up to date this cinema.
Through ‘mofussil’ stage show, Marathi theatre engendered ‘region’ and ‘public’ in terms of the rural and lower caste-class, migrant workers. The organization of this Marathi cinema also marked the shift fromof the middle-classes to thosefrom the looking at Marathi motion pictures in movie theater halls, that were occupied by working classes and, migrant workers. The low-brow humour and intimate nature with the content as well seemed to lead to the loss of the norms of middle-class and upper peuple respectability and morality from the Marathi theatre, which was no longer deemed worthy of watching. There were a constant criticism of the Marathi cinema with this decade which has been considered as bawdry and attention grabbing catering to illiterate, slum-dwellers indicating the erosion in the Marathi middle-class public tradition. At this moment the middle-class searched for relief in Jabbar Patel’s Samna (1974), Jait Re Jait (1977), Singhasan (1979) and Umbartha (1982) and later Mukta (1994) which was section of the emergence of New Indian Cinema in the 1970s that found their echoes inside the Marathi regional cinema, throughout the work of Jabbar Patel and its diamond with the question of representation, aesthetics and politics.
The release of Umbartha (1982) was seen by a jam-packed Prabhat theatre hall in Pune. The middle-classes and, upper castes who prevented Marathi movies at the time, appeared to have rusheding to the movie theater halls exactly where it was playing. The entire cinema hall There is also bookeding of the entire cinema corridor by a local college in Pune. This gives the idea that the middle-classes had been interested in the ‘realist’ cinema while detesting the ‘mofussil’ spectacle which has been associated with the migrant, working, illiterate classes. This kind of again was an attempt to shift the tendencies of Marathi movie theater towards middle-class public tradition. However , while using loss of govt funding through NFDC, the ‘realist’ theatre movement came to an end.
