C RAMACHANDRA—MUSIC DIRECTOR/ ACTOR / SINGER: BOLYWOOD AND OTHER LANGUAGES
C RAMACHANDRA—MUSIC DIRECTOR/ ACTOR / SINGER: BOLYWOOD AND OTHER LANGUAGES In this chapter I shall write about another famous and popular Music Director from Maharashtra whose contribution for Hindi Film music is commendable. He is another legendary figure of that period whose songs not only in Hindi films but in other languages such as Tamil, Marathi etc. As a composer, he mostly used the name C. Ramchandra, though he also used the names Annasaheb (in the movies Bahadur Pratap , Matwale , and Madadgaar ), Ram Chitalkar (in the movies Sukhi Jeevan , Badla , Mr. Jhatpat , Bahadur , and Dosti ), and Shyamoo (in the movie Yeh hai duniya ). Further, he often sang and acted in Marathi movies under the name R. N. Chitalkar. For his career as an occasional playback singer he used only his surname Chitalkar. Chitalkar sang some renowned and unforgettable duets with Lata Mangeshkar such ...