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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 ...