Vasant Desai Desai was born in 1912 into a wealthy family in Sonawade village, Savantwadi state, ruled by the Bhonsale clan, and grew up in Kudal area, also in Konkan belt, Sindhudurg district, Maharashtra in western India. Desai was with the famous Prabhat Film Company since it started making talkies. He acted, sang, and sometimes composed songs in Prabhat's films like Dharmatma and Sant Dnaneswar. After learning the craft of music composition, he stuck solely to it since the 1940s. Desai scored music for a majority of films of V. Shantharam’s latter broke away from Prabhat to form his own film studio. Their relations soured in late 1950s after which Vasantrao Desai never worked for his former mentor again. Desai's memorable songs are, Hindi Filmi Devotional song , Ae malik tere bande ham from Do Aankhen Barah Haath , 1957, and play back singer, Vani Jairam’s debut son...
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Anil Biswas
Anil Biswas Early Life : Anil Krishna Biswas was born on 7 July 1914, in a small village of Barisal district in East Bengal (now in Bangladesh) in the household of J C Biswas, where at a young age he acted in a local amateur theater as a child star. He was fond of listening to music since his childhood. As he grew up, he displayed considerable musical talent, by 14 he was already accomplished in playing tabla, [3] while singing and composing music at local music concerts; though soon he joined the Indian Independence Movement, while still doing his matriculation, and was repeatedly jailed for his revolutionary activities, leading to repeated disruption of his studies. Eventually in 1930, after his father’s death he left for Calcutta in disguise to escape further arrest. He was advised by the film director Hiren Bose who knew him from Kolkata (earlier Calcutta) days to move to Mumbai (earlier Bombay). In Mumbai initially he strug...