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, folk 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

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]

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Sangit Kala Kendra". Sangit Kala Kendra. 2014. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  2. ↑ "IBN Live". IBN Live. 2014. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Planet Radio City". Planet Radio City. 2014. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Flickr". Flickr. 2014. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  5. ↑ "SNA". Sangeet Natak Akademi. 2014. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
  6. 1 2 "Padma Shri" (PDF). Padma Shri. 2014. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "TOI". Times of India. February 11, 2002. Retrieved December 2, 2014.
  8. 1 2 Bhushan Korgaonkar (23 July 2014). "Daily Graph". Report. Daily Graph. Retrieved December 2, 2014.
  9. ↑ "Web India". Web India. 2010. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  10. ↑ "DNA". DNA. 2010. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  11. ↑ "SNA Tagore Samman" (PDF). Sangeet Natak Akademi. 25 April 2012. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  12. ↑ "Manipur News". Manipur News. December 17, 2011. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  13. ↑ "Loksatta". Loksatta. November 17, 2012. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  14. ↑ "Uttung Award". Uttung Sanskrutik Pariwar. 2014. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
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