The grand celebration of 5th Foundation Anniversary of Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum concluded with a lot of fervour on Sunday. The event concluded with lots of story narrations and tribal dance forms of different States.
To begin with the grand closure, Kissa Goi was performed. Basanti Devi Bisht of Dehradun presented many tales and praises in the singing style under the 'Kissa Goi’ series. Bisht started her presentation with 'Mangal Geet', 'Sagan Bole Bhoomiyal'. This song is often sung by women.
The first invitation in the song is given to nature. Through this song, the incident of finding the cow of Vasuki Nag and Naradaji in Nagalok was presented. After Mangal Geet, she performed Bhagwati Nanda Stuti 'Sufa hawa jay nanda’. In this song all devout devotees of Goddess of Uttarakhand, bid adieu to Goddess Bhagwati as she is going to Kailash mountain.
After this she performed Yamuna River Stuti 'Sneh Daanya Taran Hariri Jamuna ji'. In this she praise, the sacred river Yamuna as a lifelong lover. Then she presented traditional folk song ‘Meri Huduki Baji Ghama Gham'. Basanti Bisht finally presented 'Nayotan laa Nau Bedi Ohari' Bandish in the context of fairies.
She was accompanied by Amita Rawat and Hemma Bisht in the singing, Virendra Dimari on the keyboard, Virendra Pahadi on the dholak and Ranjit Bisht on Hudak.
later, Shilu Rajput presented the 'Alha Gayan’. She presented the marriage sequence of Udal and Phulwa through Alha Gayan. The story goes like this. On the request of the king of Mahoba, Paramal, Udal go to Kabul to buy a sledge horse, but after reaching Narwal, Udal wishes to marry the daughter of King Phulwa. Udal visit Phulwa and promises her that he will marry her one day. Then Udal arrives at Mahoba and declares a war at. There is a wretched war, and Udal emerges victorious.
At the end Udal and Pulwa gets married. On Sunday, the Bhopalite also enjoyed different dances. The artists of Assam presented the 'Bohag Bihu' dance and the Meghalaya artist 'Rugala' dance. This dance is done in the form of festivities after harvesting.