TWO GOOD: Swapnil Badodkar and Bela Shende sing a duet at the MMQ musical evening. Right: Swapnil Badodkar interacts with the audience.Maharashtra Mandal Qatar (MMQ) organised its mega musical event live-in-concert by Swapnil Badodkar and Bela Shende with anchor Meghana Erande recently at DPS-MIS Auditorium in Wakrah. Both the singers with their seven-member troop rocked the show and made the audience sing and dance to their tunes.Swapnil Bandodkar and Bela Shende are well-known playback singers in India. Bandodkar is popular for his magical voice and unique singing style. He has sung many famous Marathi songs like Radha hi Bawari, Galawar Khali and Mala Ved Lagale. Shende hails from a musical family. She has a great voice and has sung a variety of songs in Hindi, Marathi, Telgu and Kannada films. Some of her popular songs are Apsara Aali, Vajale Ki Bara, Mann Mohana from Jodha Akbar.Apart from movies, both artistes have lent their voices for music albums and have sung title songs for many Marathi TV serials. Meghana Erande is a dubbing artist and has performed many voice characters in the Indian animation industry. She has lent her voice for Baby Krishna/Baby Ghatotkach/Ninja and Hattori in Hindi.The audiences were enthralled by performances of both the singers. The show was houseful and the energetic crowd got involved with the artistes to sing and dance in the hall. Erande anchored the entire show and also gave a special performance for kids by enacting famous animation character voices like Doremon, Nobita, Ninja and Hattori. Children along with parents enjoyed her performance.Girish Kumar, president of Indian Cultural Center (ICC), graced the occasion as chief guest and Arvind Patil, President of Indian Community Benevolent Fund (ICBF) was present as special guest. Dev Tamboli, president of MMQ, conveyed the activities carried out by MMQ on social and cultural fronts in Qatar and expressed his gratitude for the excellent support from ICC, Indian Embassy and the Qatar government. He also expressed sincere thanks to all the sponsors and MMQ advisers Jagdish Pashankar, Ajit Sankhe and Chirag Doshi. The public function programme was covered by Deepak Zagade. MMQ general secretary Nandkumar Khilari delivered vote of thanks expressing gratitude towards all volunteers for their kind support and co-operation. MMQ also felicitated past president Usha Choksy for her contribution to Maharashtra Mandal and other community groups in Qatar.The MMQ annual souvenir which contains portfolio of events carried out this year was inaugurated by artistes Swapnil and Bela with all committee members. The show continued for more than three hours. It was never easy to carry out an event at such a large level which was attended by more than 850 persons. In the end, it was the sheer dedication of each and every member of the managing committee which made it possible. MMQ assured all its members to come up with fabulous programmes in the future too.Maharashtra Mandal Qatar invites all Maharashtrians in Qatar to join them. Interested people can register on the website www.mmqatar.com or send mail to qatarmmq@gmail.com or call on 66893988.