A heavily pregnant performer walks off stage in the middle of a tamasha show. Moments later, she gives birth backstage, cuts the umbilical cord with a stone, and prepares to return before the audience. It sounds like a scene written for the movies, but it is one of the most famous stories associated with legendary lavani and tamasha artiste Vithabai Bhau Mang Narayangaonkar. That remarkable episode has now found its way to the big screen in Eetha, the upcoming biopic starring Shraddha Kapoor. The teaser, released on Tuesday, shows Kapoor transformed into the folk icon whose life was marked by artistic brilliance, personal suffering, fierce dedication to tamasha and, ultimately, heartbreaking poverty. Born into Maharashtra’s Tamasha tradition Born on July 1, 1935, in Pandharpur in Maharashtra’s Solapur district, Vithabai grew up in a family where performance was a way of life. Her grandfather, Narayan Khude, had established a travelling tamasha troupe, while her father Bhau Bapu Narayangaonkar and other family members carried the tradition forward. From childhood, she was exposed to lavani, gavlan and other …