Marathi celebs give a fitting farewell for Ganpati Bappa

Sushmita.jha@timesgroup.com

As soon as

Kalavant dhol taasha pathak

arrived to perform at the Kasba Ganpati's

visrjan

miravnuk at Samadhan Chowk, on Laxmi Road, cheers and enthusiasm filled the air. After all, it's not every day that you get to see your favourite Marathi stars beat the dhol and taashas to create a divine atmosphere.
Dressed in all-whites and sporting the traditional phetas on their heads, actors, including

Sauraabh Gokhalee

, Anuja Sathe, Tejaswini Pandit, Shruti Marathe and Aastad Kale, among others, set the mood for the visarjan miravnuk in the city on Thursday. While Sauraabh was playing the taasha, his wife, actress Anuja Sathe, was spotted playing the dhol. The tinsel town couple were clearly the head turners in the procession. Sauraabh was joined by Akshay Waghmare on the taasha as Shruti and Tejaswini, who came down specially from Mumbai for the miravnuk, joined Anuja with the dhol beats. As the beats picked up, enthusiastic onlookers cheered the stars on. We also spotted Abhidnya Bhave, Shashwati Pimpalikar and Ketan Kshirsagar taking part in the procession.