Countdown To Vodafone Rangasangeet 2016 Winner Announcement Begins

Pune, December 1, 2016: The ‘Grand Finale’ of the seventh edition of ‘Vodafone Rangasangeet 2016’will be held on December 04, 2016 in the august presence of eminent Marathi Theatre and Film personalities at Balgandharva Rangamandir. Overall 13 teams across six centres viz. Pune, Nashik, Aurangabad, Kankavli, Ratnagiri and Goa, will battle it out to become the coveted champions of the seventh edition of this annual competition. While the prose finals will be held on December 03, 2016 at Bharat Natya Mandir (Sadashiv Peth), musical finals will be held on December 04, 2016 at Balgandharva Rangamandir (J. M. Road).This will be followed by winner announcement and prize distribution at Balgandharva Rangamandir from 7 pm onwards.
Nagraj Manjule will be the Chief Guest for the event along with Subodh Bhave and a host of renowned Marathi celebrities. Saurabh Gokhale and Rishikesh Dali will be the anchor of the event. The plays will be judged by an esteemed jury panel comprising of Uday Lagoo, Shriram Pendse and Vibhawari Deshpande. The winning teams will be entitled to a cash prize worth INR 1 lakh for musical and INR 10,000 for prose along with a host of other prizes worth INR 5 lakh.
The call for entries for the seventh edition of Vodafone Rangasangeet began in September this year followed by preliminary rounds in Nashik, Aurangabad, Goa, Kankavli, Ratnagiri and Pune. At the close of two month long process of selection and elimination, out of more than 100 teams across the six centres, 13 teams were shortlisted, 7 in musicals and 6 in prose, as finalists in both the categories.