 After Geet Ramayan 's original broadcast was over in March of 1956 , requests of re @-@ broadcast were flooding the radio station . All @-@ India Radio repeated the entire series of fifty @-@ six weekly songs due to popular demand . After the broadcast , Phadke produced public concerts of selected songs . The first public performance was held in the <unk> ' bungalow , " Panchavati " at <unk> , Pune on 28 May 1958 . In 1979 , a Silver Jubilee celebration of the programme took place at the New English School in Pune for eight nights . Atal Bihari Vajpayee , the then Minister of External Affairs , attended the show as the guest of honour along with the then Deputy Prime Minister of India <unk> Chavan , Bollywood film director Basu Bhattacharya , actor Dada <unk> , and celebrated classical singers such as <unk> Joshi and <unk> <unk> . Vajpayee also attended the Golden Jubilee celebration with Sharad Pawar and Bal Thackeray . National Award @-@ winning art director Nitin Chandrakant Desai designed the stage depicting scenes from the Ramayana . The event featured all the songs from the original Geet Ramayan now vocalized by Madgulkar 's son Anand Madgulkar , Shridhar Phadke , Suresh <unk> , Upendra Bhat , Padmaja <unk> <unk> and others . 
