vadodara the firstever pandwani festival revolving around maestro teejan bai will be held in the city from monday the threeday festival will see performances by teejan bai and her pupils teejan bai a padma bhushan and the first woman to take up the art form will perform on the first day of the festival titled teejan bai the pandwani festival it will be after a gap of five years that the celebrated artist will appear on the stage in the city the festival is being brought to the city by the department of dramatics of the faculty of performing arts of the m s university the west zone cultural centre at udaipur and imaginarea a citybased group working for promotion of performing arts while the traditional mahabharat performance will be staged by teejan bai on the first day a bharat katha will be staged on the second day while chola mor mati a presentation based on the life of teejan bai will be staged on the third day niraj joshi from imaginarea said that the festival was being held in the city as it was the cultural capital of the state we wanted to give something to the city that would be memorable to connoisseurs of performing arts also pandwani is an art that needs to be promoted he said bharat katha is a melting pot of various forms like classical singing bharatnatyam pandwani chhow dance and others chola mor mati will be performed by sushma sharma a disciple of teejan bai