Acclaimed Lavani singer and Padma Shri recipient Yamunabai Waikar passed away after a brief illness at the age of 103 today. Waikar was known for her Lavani numbers and took this popular folk song ...

Renowned Marathi Lavani singer Sulochana Chavan died in Mumbai on Saturday due to age-related ailments, her family said. Chavan, 92, was a Padma Shri recipient. She breathed her last at her south ...

Featuring award-winning artists such as Sangeet Natak Akademi recipient Shakuntalabai Nagarkar, Lavani Ke Rang blends powerful storytelling with electrifying music and dance, presenting folk ...

IF you were to drop by at the Symbiosis Health Centre, you could well mistake their in their aerobics work-out sessions for a lilting lavani performance. There’s no Surekha Punekar or Maya Jadhav ...

Mumbai: Sulochana Chavan, a well-known Marathi Lavani singer, passed away in Mumbai on Saturday as a result of age-related diseases, according to her family. Sulochana Chavan, 92, was a Padma Shri ...

In the middle-class Marathi household of Bhushan Korgaonkar, Lavani as a dance form was often looked down upon, considered bawdy and obscene. Korgaonkar felt ashamed that the state of Maharashtra, ...

It was in the early 2000s that Sudharak Olwe was assigned by a newspaper to photograph Lavani performers. However, having grown up in a typical Maharashtrian household, he had been warned at an early ...

Concerns over the commercialization of Lavani performances in Maharashtra have led to calls for stricter regulations to protect this traditional art form.