Initially reluctant Aburao gets convinced by Menaka and her associates in the industry. She enjoys the performance and advises Aburao to join film industry. Gunawant is also accompanied by film-star Menaka ( Varsha Usgaonkar).

On achieving the success of 500th show, Aburao invites Gunawant for the felicitation program. Following the advice, Aburao forms a new troupe along with Manjula and Nana. Amused by Aburao and his team's performance, Gunawant advises Aburao to form his own tamasha troupe.

Once Aburao's school friend Gunawant ( Dilip Prabhavalkar), who has now become a minister, attends his show. Now grown up Aburao learns mimicry, singing and becomes famous for his political satirical jokes in the tamasha world. While Manjula is being mentored by Nana ( Nilu Phule), young Aburao gets fascinated by Nana's ability to make people laugh and aspires to be a 'Songadya' (Clown) like him. But sudden death of Inamdar forces Manjula and Aburao to join back the dance troupe this time her sister Kausalya's troupe. She left her dancing troupe and eventually became a mistress of a politician-landlord, Himmatrao Inamdar ( Mohan Agashe). Exasperated with media attention, Aburao leaves the crematory and heads towards his mother's home, only to revisit his childhood memories.ДЇilm unfolds in flashback with Aburao, an illegitimate son of a tamasha dancer, Manjula. To capture on his popularity, rituals are also being covered by media. As these rituals are usually performed with the shaved head, Aburao is forced to do it by wearing a wig so that he does not lose on the continuity of his films currently being shot. The film also participated at the Indian Panorama, International Film Festival of India in 1993.ДЇilm begins with Aburao ( Laxmikant Berde), a famous film-star in Maharashtra, performing death rituals ( ЕљrДЃddha) for his mother, Manjula (Madhu Kambikar) in his hometown Begadewadi. Kolhapurkar became the first choreographer and the first woman to win the National Film Award for choreography.

It also won two National Film Awards at the 40th National Film Awards (1992) Best Feature Film in Marathi and Best Choreography for Laxmibai Kolhapurkar. The film won several awards and was adjudged as the Best Film at Maharashtra State Film Awards (1993). Previously, Deshpande had written screenplay and dialogues for another Marathi film Gulacha Ganapati (1953) starring himself. The film is based on a short story written by Jabbar Patel with screenplay and dialogues penned by the veteran Marathi writer, P. Laxmikant Berde, who is better known for his comic roles in Marathi and Hindi films, was appreciated for his role as Aburao. The film portrays the life of folk theater artist and is considered one of the few films made on the life of tamasha artistes, including Pinjara (1972) and Natarang (2010). The film stars Laxmikant Berde, Madhu Kambikar, Nilu Phule, Varsha Usgaonkar in lead roles and Mohan Agashe and Dilip Prabhavalkar in supporting roles. Ek Hota Vidushak ( Marathi: а¤Џа¤• а¤№аҐ‹а¤¤а¤ѕ а¤µа¤їа¤¦аҐ‚а¤·а¤•, English: Once There Was A Clown) is a 1992 Marathi film directed by Jabbar Patel and produced by National Film Development Corporation of India.

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