Radio Brisvaani
Brisbane Maharashtra Mandal is a non-profit community organization started in Brisbane incorporated in year 2005.
Popularly, it is known as BRIMM and is dedicated to promoting Maharashtrian culture through performing arts such as drama, music, dance and other social activities in and around South East Queensland. BRIMM hosts three or four events in a year, like Ganesh Utsav, Diwali celebrations, movie shows, and Marathi Shala; a school for second generation young Maharashtrian children as well as interested adults and children who like to learn the Marathi language. Marathi Shala is normally held on first Sunday of the month. The upcoming dates are 4 November and 2nd December for this year. For more details on Marathi Shala please visit.
This year Ganesh Utsav was celebrated with an overwhelming response from all the Maharashtrians living in Brisbane. The 2018-19 organising committee organised Dhol Tasha, Ganesh puja, as well as a cultural program of dance, songs, and skit keeping in line with the mission of the organization. The committee is committed in showcasing local talent and encouraging local people to spread the Maharashtrian culture to the next generation as well as to non-Maharashtrian friends interested in the culture.
In doing so, Brisbane Maharashtra Mandal recently organised a memorable program based on the mythological epic poem Ramayan in memory of the two legends, one poet, writer/composer of the songs Shri G. D. Madgulkar and the other, the singer/ composer of the songs Shri Sudhir Phadke. 2018 is the centennial birth year of both Shri G. D. Madgulkar and Shri Sudhir Phadke.
The Geet Ramayan program was an ambitious feat of the writer, composer, singer as well as the radio directors who developed a program that narrated the entire story of Ramayan in the form of 56songs and made the program a hit on the radio medium. It was first broadcasted in 1955, relayed on All India Radio in Pune, Maharashtra, India. It was a golden period for Radio at that time. The program was unique and innovative, one designed specifically for the radio. It was also for the first time that Ramayan was being recited in the form of songs. This project also altered the programing format for radio and attracted a huge fan following. The program also helped reach a wider audience, almost every Marathi speaking household in Maharashtra. People bought radios to listen to Geet Ramayan.
This year marks the 63 anniversary of the program of October, Brisbane Maharashtrians experienced this mesmerising journey of Ramayan through songs sung by lead singer Raghunath Pawar. He has been performing the Geet Ramayan program for many years and now has involved his family in his performances. Rugwed Pawar, Raghunath Pawar’s son plays an amazing rendition of tabla supported by his father on harmonium. The Ramayan program was articulately narrated and presented by Raghunath’s wife Sonali Pawar. Raghunath Pawar also roped in the local artists of Brisbane in the chorus; Vaishali Chandorikar, Suhas Chaudhari, Swapnil Dicholkar and Gandhali Bapat sang the chorus and motivated the audience to sing a long and enjoy the world singer’s day. This entire team of singers kept the audience captivated and received a standing ovation for their performance.
Brisbane Maharashtra Mandal is again geared up for giving the audience yet another chance to be mesmerized by local artists for Diwali celebrations. Marathi music has various facets, and each has a unique panache and a unique fan following. Hence to accommodate everyone’s tastes and liking, local artists will be singing Marathi movie songs, popular Marathi songs, mashups as well as aesthetically sound Marathi songs composed and sung by legends in the Marathi music Industry. The program named “Dangal Gani” will portray the varied journey of Marathi Music.
In addition to the music program, the Brisbane Maharashtra Mandal committee has arranged for a one of a kind conversation program with Mr. Sunandan Lele who will be with us in person and talking about the Cricket Legend, Master Blaster, Sachin Tendulkar. Mr Sunandan Lele in his 25 years journalism career has written many articles about Mr. Sachin Tendulkar. He will be showing us slides of photos taken with Sachin Tendulkar and narrating stories, memories, about the journey of the icon as the person Sachin Tendulkar. Mr. Sunandan Lele intends to highlight the various facets about Sachin Tendulkar not as an icon but the person, the social worker, the son, the husband and the father Sunandan Lele knows him as.
The Diwali program is organised on November 17, 2018 at 4pm in Our lady of Assumption School, 9 Hurdcotte st, Ennogera, Brisbane, Queensland 4051.
For more information on the Brisbane Maharashtra Mandal Diwali program, please visit https://brimm.org.au/rsvp-brimm-diwali or visit Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/brimmandal/ or contact us at http://brimm.org.au/contact-brimm/
For more details on Maharashtra Mandal visit our website http://brimm.org.au
